Yesterday I added in-app purchase in my Chrome extension and 6 people bought it so far.
I made a chrome extension which adds 15+ customizations/tweaks to Notion. I made it mostly for my own needs as I always felt notion could be more productive.
Last week, I thought of making it as a freemium extension where some of the tweaks can be enabled once user pays one-time fee of $5.
I made in-app payment integration live yesterday and within 24 hours 6 people bought it. Total revenue is $30USD.
I used Extensionpay.com (made by fellow indie hacker Glen) for adding in-app purchase instead of managing my own servers to do it.
My extension link: https://gourav.io/notion-boost
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Wow, you have 10000+ installations, that's awesome! How did you get there?
thanks. I shared my extension in bunch of Notion communities and it grew organically from there. I'm yet to do my producthunt launch.
Awesome! I'm curious on how this will play out for you in the long term, ie. free vs paid users, but this is definitely a great start!
I'm thinking on launching a Chrome extension as well, as an addition for my desktop app, but I'm a little concerned about it taking too much of my time to support.
What's your experience with this? How heavy on customer support side of things it is for you to maintain notion-boost?
for me people paid to get access to existing pro features so there's not much of a support required unless those existing features stopped working. In terms of support, I occasionally get new feature requests and that's all.
Seems to me that the amount of support you give is up to you! If you have high standards for yourself then you might fix every little thing or if you can let some things slide then maybe you only fix the most broken things.
Cool, thanks! I guess then "letting some things slide" might be a good self-control exercise, lol.
Lots of props to you Gourav! Your extension is great, so well designed, and I appreciate how you struck a good balance for not charging current free users.
thank you Glen. I was bit sceptical about adding paywall and that to a chrome extension but it worked out great. Recieved good feedback from users. Thanks to you, It literally saved me weeks of work by using your extensionpay library instead of building my own.
And btw, Extensionpay looks great! I'll give it a shot if I get convinced to launch a chrome extension (based on my previous question ;)
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