100 signups! — Payments for browser extensions
by Glen ChiacchieriIt feels like ExtensionPay has started to get some traction! Lots of people are signing up organically without me having to reach out via emails. The top traffic sources are IndieHackers, organic Google searches, Hacker News / Reddit comments, the official Chrome extension mailing list, and Github. If anyone would like to help me out, starring the project on Github would be really great.
ℹ️ For those who aren't following along, https://extensionpay.com lets browser extension developers take payments in their extensions without needing to code their own backend server, saving weeks of tedious work. It's open-source, works cross-browser, and is free to sign up. ℹ️
I've also started content marketing — here's my first post about browser extensions by Indie Hackers that make money.
Unfortunately the revenue for ExtensionPay is still very low with a lot of it coming from only a handful of extensions, but honestly I'm still quite happy with that. It feels really cool that money is coming in steadily and would keep on like that even if I stopped working on it completely. And of course I don't plan to stop working on it. :)
My goal for ExtensionPay is to reach ramen profitability — $500 per month would be really good and $1000 a month would make me ecstatic. Eventually I think ExtensionPay has the potential to make over $100k per year, but that feels like it's at least 3-5 years out if I do things right.
Onward!
A one-week feature took two months, mostly spent keeping three systems in sync