Does anyone have a list of online software "plugin" marketplaces?
Hi,
I found a list a long time ago of online marketplaces that software developers can make plugins for like wordpress, slack, github..
Has anyone got a decent list of these or can we try build one here?
Here's a comprehensive list: https://indie-ignitor.com/marketplaces
Thanks for the mention @poehah ;-)
No problem, Patric! How's the business going? Are people signing up for the extras?
Actually we have put the "extended" feature on hold as of now.
We tried to get to 10 pre-sales at $149,- each (to justify investing more time and money to build scrapers and collect more data) but we only managed to get 2/10 pre sales after ~2 months in and a lot of 1-on-1 conversations. So we refunded the initial two. Jay and I might come back to the project if we have some ideas and motivation again how to re-approach the topic.
On the one hand it ways quite awesome to get 2x immmediate $149,- pre-sales after launching, but we failed to replicate the early success. And we've both other projects and committments so it was fly-or-die essentially ;)
Understood!
I liked the project though so I hope you find a way to bring it back to life :-)
My initial thought was that it was cool but too expensive. Especially since I wasn't sure what extra data I would get and I was only interested in a few marketplaces, not the whole list. So I think the project could have benefited from a trial or perhaps a lower monthly subscription just so we can test it out without spending a lot.
Ideally, I'd pay a one-off cost for a report (with data until the point of purchase) on one of the marketplaces, but I understand that may not be a viable business model :-).
Yes and yes.
The notion to have all the data about all the marketplaces was probably a bit too ambitious. A customer would probably only want to know something about 2-3 marketplaces at max. (i.e. as a PHP Dev I might be only interested in a few which I can serve.
If we had set up the data collection and crawling anyway a trial access would be a no brainer. Or at least some preview data. But as we wanted to use the pre-sales to fund the further development and gathering of data this did not work out.
We'll see how the story of Indie-Ignitor.com continues ;)
Interesting, thanks for the feedback @poehah. Another IndieHacker said the same thing to me yesterday cc @patrics
Yeah interesting, did anybody mention a specific marketplace? We'd still have to gather the data beforehand - but doing it for a single platform might be more feasible.
Great minds... 😃
That's a pretty good list, thanks. I don't think we'll find anymore than that