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How I made $18k on CodeCanyon

by maxko on 7/31/18, 8:16 PM with 8 comments

  • by josephjrobison on 8/1/18, 1:44 PM

    Congrats! Even for a freelance developer in the US, this is significant money, and doesn’t require directly trading time for money.

    And the most important thing is that you’ve built a solid foundation to improve upon. Most people can’t ship as much as you have, and most don’t have the foresight to write a blog post about it.

    I’ve started to notice similar things on the economics of themes and plugins on Themeforest. Unless you’re a top selling theme/plugin the revenues don’t often provide enough to encourage updates. I’ve had a few themes I bought go not-updated for years, so I have to switch to more popular and robust themes that I know will be supported.

  • by pnloyd on 8/1/18, 1:42 AM

    I hope you were just doing this as a side project. Doesn't seem like it was too lucrative at ~$800 a month. And why delete the plugins off Codecanyon?

  • by jwilbs on 8/1/18, 8:02 PM

    Great blog post; interesting, relevant, and to the point.

    Does anyone know of any other hubs for content creation that don’t keep such a steep % of $?

  • by nowayhose on 8/1/18, 3:08 PM

    Why delete it though? Was support too much?