Going over the WP subreddits, it seems like a lot of people are asking about how to sell plugins, and especially how to start out.
Let me share my story of how I started out and how I sold my first plugin. Why?! For fun, for the lulz, and for some sweet SEO juice!
In November 2019, I had just gotten married - I was in Bangkok browsing AirBNBs and coming to the realization everything seemed out of our budget. My dear wife took it upon herself to find us a lovely room in Bang Na, one of the poorer districts, which she managed to score for a measly 6000thb a month (or around 160 dollars). It was the barest-bones room you’ve ever seen, with nothing but a bed, table and a bathroom. As I was sitting on the cusp of the metal bed, a realization hit me and I asked my wife with a look of genuine surprise: “Honey, are we poor?”. She confirmed we were, and now it all started to make sense: the hard mattress, the ants in the bathroom, and the $0.60 grilled cheese sandwiches I kept buying from 7/11.
Ah, we were poor! Now I knew I had to do something! After 5-6 years of freelance web development, it looked like I managed to save up a bit, but barely enough for a single man, let alone a young family. Something had to change.
After listening to Naval Ravikant’s “How to get rich” series, something he said struck me: “You can’t get rich renting out your time!”. And that’s exactly what I had been doing all this time.
I started thinking about selling a product. I had been working with WordPress for years so maybe I could build a plugin or theme. But I knew very little about how a plugin worked internally. Nonetheless, how hard could it be!?
I thought about a concrete goal: Let’s get my first plugin approved on CodeCanyon. After all, that’s where all the big shots like @CodeRevolution were selling!
to be continued/
