+$25000 — Payments in browser extensions

For those who aren't following along, ExtensionPay lets browser extension developers take payments for their extensions without a backend or any up-front costs, saving money and weeks of tedious work. It's open-source, works for all browsers, and is free to sign up and use.

Updates this month:

💰Developers have now made over $25,000 with ExtensionPay!

💰Revenue stayed constant from last month, around $240.

📝 +53 new signups this month to 422 total.

⚙️ New app features: None

📈 Marketing: New content article Add Stripe Payments to Chrome Extensions. Submitted ExtensionPay to Mozilla Extension Workshop. Tweaked SEO and landing page more.

Reflections

Not a whole lot to report this month. Mostly new marketing efforts which are in-motion but haven't panned out one way or another yet.

Revenue was flat again which is nice since a lot of that is one-time sales that tend to fall off over time, which means new extensions have been making up the gaps to keep revenue constant. Hopefully that trend continues.

I automated a few things so that I spend less time on ExtensionPay day-to-day since working for basically any amount of time on it right now seems to be detrimental to my health. I'm not sure what this means for my $1k/month goal for this year — maybe I'll shelf that goal for now.

I'm excited that one of my friends is monetizing his extension with ExtensionPay. I think it will be quite profitable for both of us.

It's very interesting running a SaaS business. The work never feels "done" — there are always customers to support, new marketing efforts that could be tried, new features to add. I'm not sure I like that feeling or know how to handle it in a healthy way yet. Right now it just creates waves of desire but I haven't found a way to make it something I work on habitually.