MV3 support! — Payments in browser extensions
by Glen ChiacchieriI finally added support for Manifest v3! This is the new webextension standard from Google that's already implemented in Chrome. Lots of people have asked when ExtensionPay is going to support MV3 so I finally looked into it and made it happen — only took a day!
For those who aren't following along, ExtensionPay lets browser extension developers easily take payments for their extensions without a backend, saving weeks of tedious work. It's open-source, works for all browsers, and is free to sign up.
Other updates:
💰Developers have now made about $7000 through ExtensionPay!
📝 180 signups in total with a new one every handful of days. This seems to have slowed down a bit recently.
📑 I wrote more content articles: How to Monetize Chrome Extensions, How to Add Free Trials in Chrome Extensions, ExtensionPay is the Chrome Web Store Payments Replacement
Reflections:
I decided to prioritize my health and meditation for the past month so haven't really done all that much with ExtensionPay but I feel like that was a bit of a mistake. It's hard to find a healthy balance for all this stuff!
It doesn't seem like the content marketing has done all that much for SEO — I get a few visits on average from Google per day. I'm not really sure how to improve this — I think I need to reach out to the IndieHackers community for help.
I'm happy that revenue has been relatively steady but I definitely want this to go up. I'm hoping that adding MV3 support will get more people to sign up and release their extensions which will eventually increase revenue.
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I decided to prioritize my health and meditation for the past month so haven't really done all that much with ExtensionPay but I feel like that was a bit of a mistake. It's hard to find a healthy balance for all this stuff
I think everyone struggles to find that balance. If you work too hard, you get burn-out. If you relax too much, you start feeling guilty and think that you are missing opportunities.
Currently, the balance that I found is to work hard for a short period (2-3 days) then relax and stop to think for a bit longer (6-9 days).
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Thanks for empathizing and sharing your experience! I also think doing a little bit at a time with longer rests might be helpful for me. Balance is particularly hard for me to find right now because even simple things like taking a walk can be physically overwhelming, but I do feel better when I keep my project moving along.
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Keep up. Content marketing is a long game especially for an unknown site -- your results will take months to rank and to show up for the keywords you are targeting. I generally give an article 6 month before I review it's status.
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Thanks for the encouragement! I'll continue adding content articles to the site and hope it ranks up.
What do you mean you give an article 6 months before you review its status? What do you do after that?
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