[HN Gopher] A solo journey to $100k in sales ___________________________________________________________________ A solo journey to $100k in sales Author : zenorocha Score : 353 points Date : 2021-02-25 14:20 UTC (8 hours ago) (HTM) web link (draculatheme.com) (TXT) w3m dump (draculatheme.com) | yaml-ops-guy wrote: | I am truly amazed and impressed with how many different software | you bothered to create a consistent design language for with this | theme. | | From Ableton, one of my favorite DAWs to Blender, one of my | favorite tools for modeling. | | Like seriously, WELL DONE, friend. I'm happily making my way to | checkout right now, thanks for sharing this with us | verelo wrote: | The refund part hits close to home. I've experience this too. | What were some of the reasons for the refunds? I think theres so | much to learn there. Some people are just jerks (they don't read | what they're buying, and then blame you), but some people just | didn't get what they expected due to some miscommunication, or | product experience issue. I'd love to read more about this from | this project! | zenorocha wrote: | It's definitely really hard to deal with refunds. You can make | 10 sales in one day, but if there's only 1 refund, you might | feel sad and disappointed. | | About the reasons for refunds - you're right, many people buy | without reading and then ask for refund later. Others might | feel buyer's remorse. | | In my case, the most common request was because of their | personal taste. You see, I'm selling a theme for developers and | they usually spend a lot of time using the same theme. It takes | time to adapt to a new one color scheme, and some people ended | up asking for the refund before they get used to it. | FpUser wrote: | Congratulations on your achievements. Very nice idea and good | website. | | Having said that I noticed on your demo that the difference | between selected text and non selected one it negligible. It is | very unergonomic I would say. Funny thing I did notice the same | trend on practically all dark schemes from other offerings. | Themes for VS code for example. Curious why is that as the | inability to clearly emphasize selected text would make my get | rid of said theme immediately. | zenorocha wrote: | Thanks for noticing that, I'll take a deeper look. | philk10 wrote: | Congrats! Really minor observation noticed when looking at your | site, image for Aseprite is broken - | https://draculatheme.com/aseprite | zenorocha wrote: | Ohhh that's true! Thanks for catching that ;) | zenorocha wrote: | Fixed! | nstj wrote: | Terrific site - it reads really nicely. Well done! | zenorocha wrote: | Thanks! Credits to Fira Code, my favorite font <3 | option_greek wrote: | >> I believe in Purchasing Parity Power, and I want to make this | affordable. | | Saw this on clicking the pro link. Really appreciate the gesture. | Wish more products/creators thought this way :) | zenorocha wrote: | Not everybody earns a US salary, yet we live in a world where | all prices are the same. I agree with you, more creators should | do that kind of thing. | bbbrrrmm wrote: | Just goes to show that people will buy any old shit. | flipcoder wrote: | Are you generating the configs for all these apps? Having a | method of turning a universal theme spec into specific app | configs might be worth more than the theme itself. | nickjj wrote: | I accidentally half way started this type of project the other | month when I wanted to quickly change themes along with | toggling dark / light mode in a bunch of different terminal | apps. | | I got things set up to where I can run: set-theme gruvbox or | set-theme one and it'll switch color themes in half a dozen | apps. It also supports an optional --toggle-bg flag to flip | between dark and light mode if the theme supports it. | | Ended up being a fairly small zero dependency Python script | that I put together in a few hours. I made a video about it | here https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/a-terminal-tmux-vim-and- | fzf-t... and the script is in my dotfiles at https://github.com | /nickjj/dotfiles/blob/master/.local/bin/se.... | | But it wouldn't be hard to make the script more general purpose | and put the configuration in a YAML file instead of in the | script. Then add attributes for each supported app along with | how those values would get replaced. If the app supports plain | text config files it could realistically be done. | zenorocha wrote: | It's really hard to build something like this since some themes | like JetBrains requires a gradlew build (Java), while others | might require some other languages. However, there are some | attempts on this field already, https://themer.dev being the | best one so far. | rasikjain wrote: | Congrats!! This is a very pleasant news in these difficult times | especially. Wish you lots of good luck. Hope you inspire lot of | folks on HN here. | zenorocha wrote: | That's the whole point. If it inspires at least 1 person, then | it was enough already. | nbzso wrote: | Congrats. Instead of thinking in the line of "Wow $99 for a | config file with colors and fonts". My reaction is: So there is a | premium market for this things. Good. | zenorocha wrote: | Yes! There's a premium market for everything. | brtkdotse wrote: | Without knocking the creators achievement, I find it curious how | devs will rage and cry murder when LastPass wants a few bucks for | a hosted product but don't bat an eye for shelling out $99 for | what is, when you come down to it, a config file for your IDE . | johnx123-up wrote: | FWIW... I guess, the paying customer segment might be | different. Since he seems to be selling the bundle, he may not | be knowing the demographics. I vaguely guess the paying segment | might be from the designer ecosystem like Sketch or Figma. | renewiltord wrote: | If that doesn't tell you how bad LastPass is, I guess there's | nothing to learn here. | hobs wrote: | That's just a lesson in promising things to your customers - if | you never promise free nobody bitches; changing things you've | already delivered is the simplest way to a marketing problem. | xtracto wrote: | I think I am one of those. I generally don't like "subscription | model" products. I am OK paying whatever price one time to buy | something, but having to keep paying recurrently for some | service incites locking to me, as the moment I decide I don't | want to pay anymore I end up empty handed. | iujjkfjdkkdkf wrote: | Yeah, I feel like paying a subscription to keep using | software just feels like a rip off, even if it's actually a | fair price, and am much less inclined to sign up for it. | Lich wrote: | I'm asking out of curiosity, as someone who is thinking about | implementing a subscription model, do you not like it even | though you know the product you're using has recurring costs | for usage (e.g. charges for API/DB calls), or are you only | against subscription models when the cost of usage is minimal | to none (e.g. MS Office, Adobe CS)? | Nullabillity wrote: | Usually both of those costs are added to the product | specifically to have an excuse to charge a subscription, | which gets especially galling when 99% of users have no | real use for it. | | But the most hilarious/sad model has to be Elastic's "you | need to pay us based on how bloated our garbage is, | regardless of whether we're actually involved in hosting | it". | iujjkfjdkkdkf wrote: | I have no problem paying for recurring usage costs. For | example I have a paid vps and paid email. But in my mind | I'm paying precisely for the compute, storage, and network | infrastructure behind them, not paying, e.g. to run linux. | And I'm happy to pay for someone else to manage that | infrastructure because the setup is nontrivial, I dont need | to own the infra, etc. | | Contrast this with Office 365, or even more niche pay per | use or per month products, that are not better in any way | that matters to me because they are hosted elsewhere. With | these products I feel like someone wants me to pay a | recurring fee just to run their code. Some of it is | psychological, but I feel like I'm getting ripped off, that | someone is trying to find a way to get me to keep paying | for something (which they are). | | Spotify and Netflix have found a good balance of offering a | subscription, but providing such a large catalog that the | value vs. actually owning all the content is clear. Most | SaaS feels more like having to pay monthly just to own a | single DVD. | | But TLDR for me is I dont want to pay recurringly for the | privilege of executing your code, I will pay recurringly | for needed* infra, support, etc that goes along with it. | | *not just tacked on to make it SaaS or to deploy it as SaaS | GVIrish wrote: | So if a SaaS offered a prepaid consumption plan alongside | a monthly subscription you'd be more likely to buy? | | Like $19/month unlimited use or $50 for x amount of usage | (api calls, transactions, assets, etc.)? Then you decide | if you want to reup when you've used up your credits? | spoonjim wrote: | Both Office and Adobe CS now have hosted features (file | sharing) too so they are moving more in that direction. | intrepidhero wrote: | I had the same question. But when I saw how many apps he | supports, and it comes with decent fonts... I'm quite tempted. | I'm normally one of the cheapskates. But getting consistent and | good themes across my desktop? That's a hell of a lot of work | for something I'd really appreciate. | jk7tarYZAQNpTQa wrote: | I have nothing neither against LastPass, nor for Dracula, and | I've never used either so I might be wrong, but here are a few | differences that IMO matter a lot: | | - Dracula is FOSS. LastPass has some FOSS projects, but the key | ones aren't. | | - Dracula is a one-time-purchase, LastPass follows the terrible | trend where everything must be subscription based. | | - You can use Dracula when the server is down. You can't use | LastPass when the server is down. Yes, you can manually backup | the vault somewhere, but (a) there's AFAIK no way to automate | it, and (b) you should be updating the backup every time you | edit the database, which turns into a PITA. | | As a customer I really dislike LastPass' business model. I | rather use KeePass, and pay a hundred bucks for some Vim rice. | Sebb767 wrote: | > - Dracula is a one-time-purchase, LastPass follows the | terrible trend where everything must be subscription based. | | Let's be fair here: LastPass needs to finance storage | servers, network infrastructure, security engineers etc.. | Dracula needs a CDN for downloads. Of course this is a bit | simplified (the author needs the editors and a payment | processer, for example), but it's a lot easier to work with a | one-time fee when nearly all of your cost is up front and you | have basically no running costs. | [deleted] | sithlord wrote: | Personally, I have no problem paying for it, but I hate the | bait and switch crap. I'd rather pay someone who has always | been paid, then wait for lastpass to decide to strip more | features unless you pay up more. | Threeve303 wrote: | If people are buying it then the argument can be made it is | both useful and fairly priced to the customer. It's not like | the company has a monopoly on IDE configuration. | imwillofficial wrote: | Do you know that it is the same people holding these | conflicting stances? Seems like HN is a big place, room enough | for both cheap devs and more well-heeled devs. | mercer wrote: | Intuitively I'd guess that they're very different audiences. | I'm sort of near the type of person who would shell out for | ease-of-use stuff like the same theme across editors, but | also the type of person who would even want that. | | I suspect a person similar to me would also pay a bunch of | bucks for, say, a screen arrangement app for MacOS, or a way | to more quickly pair AirPods (ToothFairy). | | It's a type of user that has no problem paying for | convenience, I suppose? | | That said, $79 is too steep for me to pay for a set of | themes, even though I do really like this one. | brtkdotse wrote: | Nope, just some good ol' generalizin! | jdxcode wrote: | I admire your honesty! | imwillofficial wrote: | Hahahha well, what do you think? Is this too pricey for | what you get? Or do you feel it's a unique buy that's worth | it? | darrenoc wrote: | There is a large contingent on HN who are both rich and | cheap, so I don't think this holds any water | deathtrader666 wrote: | Looks like the set of developers who cannot edit their own | config files and the set of developers who are careful enough | to use a password manager are mutually exclusive. | matwood wrote: | For me, it's one-time purchase vs. subscription. For example, I | was happily paying 1Password every couple of years for a long | time, and left when they made it clear subscriptions were the | future. | wp381640 wrote: | Lesson for startups is it's easier to start high and drop | prices but fucking hard to bend user expectations and increase | prices | | Lastpass aren't the first or last company that has felt this | blowback | xwdv wrote: | It illustrates what people are really willing to pay for. | Swizec wrote: | $99 for a great config file is buying time. A good config can | take years to hone. Easily adds up to 50 hours over 10 years. | | How much are your 50 hours worth? What about cutting that 10 | year lead time down to 1h? | | LastPass on the other hand is a tool you use because the world | sucks. And their UX is pretty bad. And switching away is an | annoying chore. You feel trapped and extorted into paying. | | I configured my own editor and people often ask for details. I | use LastPass begrudgingly because at this point I'm too | lazy/busy to switch. | wastedhours wrote: | > LastPass on the other hand is a tool you use because the | world sucks | | I feel like this gets missed a lot when questions about | price/value come up. | | Just because something's useful doesn't mean you _want_ to | buy it, and things you don 't want to buy, but need, are | likely to be thought of more harshly when it comes to price. | nkingsy wrote: | This emotion seems obvious and I wonder why we don't have | clear, sustained global consensus for creating/maintaining | non-profit alternatives for strict needs. | | Is this part of mainstream economics yet? I see "the | economist" argue around the edges of this, but then they | ran a front page hit on Bernie sanders. | wastedhours wrote: | I guess because the more it looks and feels like a public | service, the more it feels like a tax. Or the more it | feels like a non-profit, the more it feels like charity. | | Each of those concepts has had a long time to become | embedded, but the kind of globalised, "net-good" non- | profit that still gives you as an individual benefits, | has barely even reached the corners of HN yet (would | assume there's people here who haven't yet discovered | LetsEncrypt, for example). | mrmonkeyman wrote: | LastPass saves you time too, compared to being hacked. (And a | lot more than 50 hours) I don't get how honing a config file | is not madness, but good password management is extortion. | | You are holding it wrong. | praveenperera wrote: | Agreed, mostly. Expect for switching being an annoying chore. | | Took my less than 10 mins to switch everything and download | 1Password on all my devices. Super simple. Everything got | imported over. | scruple wrote: | I use BitWarden because the world sucks. | | I use LastPass because my employer compels me to. | throwawayffffas wrote: | I am writing my own password manager because the world | sucks. I use passpack because I am not done. | Kneecaps07 wrote: | Switching away was actually very easy. You can get a CSV with | all of your information in a few clicks. | whywhywhywhy wrote: | Which is the more satisfying purchase? | | I'd enjoy spending money on a nice meal or say a guitar, things | that bring joy rather than a say a boiler that brings utility. | musicale wrote: | > LastPass wants a few bucks for a hosted product | | Many people already have cloud storage (dropbox, icloud) and | don't see the need for another subscription. I certainly don't. | villgax wrote: | If you build it, they will come. | Mc_Big_G wrote: | This is exactly the opposite of reality. | vwnghjmjew wrote: | What about better mousetraps? | zenorocha wrote: | +1000 | ogjunkyard wrote: | How did you go about implementing Parity Purchasing Power? Was it | an automated thing, or did you grab a table from somewhere and go | from there? | mrwd021 wrote: | well done. bravo | quaffapint wrote: | I commend you for getting people to pay for a color theme - | something that people think of as a freebie. | | I would just think that no one would ever pay for this and not | even try. You tried and you are succeeding. There's a lesson in | that. | mettamage wrote: | I have a heuristic for this. When something sounds stupidly | simple, then try it if the upside might be huge (and you have | free time on your hands, there's always an opportunity cost). | The chance is higher that you're right, but in my personal | experience, less high than I think. | | Empiricism > rationalism/intuition [1] | | But rationalism/intuition takes less time, so there's always a | trade-off :) | | [1] Unless you're an expert at the topic (see the research of | Kahneman, Tversky and KLein), then there are many cases where | your intuition might fit the model of reality better than many | empiric experiments, especially with business/social things | like this HN submission. | zenorocha wrote: | I never thought people would pay for a color scheme too. That's | why, I tried to position in a way where you'd not only get the | actual themes, but also a bunch of other resources to make you | more productive. | dlkmp wrote: | Might be just me but once I saw that "x tips to get better" | ebook, the offer lost credibility in my eyes. It just feels | more believable to me that there might be some guy who knows | so much about colors and the corresponding theory that he can | actually can come up with a theme worth 100 bucks than that | there is a guy who can do this _and_ give me tips on random | semi-related topics. | laurent92 wrote: | In 2001, Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar thought "Let's | sell an equivalent to the dozen of free open-source | bugtrackers, but for a price." Today Atlassian is worth about | $60bn, they owned about 75%. | DrBazza wrote: | And it's ripe for a lightweight alternative that gets | customers that want the fast, basic set of bug tracking | features. | | Jira is horrific. | [deleted] | laurent92 wrote: | People have always said that ;) but Jira is super- | expensive. It was $60 per user (permanent), and they've | increased the prices a lot. Especially since you buy | Confluence and all the little addons separately. | thitcanh wrote: | Horrific but people keep buying it. | | From Jira's owner POV, Jira is pretty great. | mritchie712 wrote: | https://linear.app/ | TameAntelope wrote: | I find the most common source of Jira-hate is a combined | refusal to leave many of its features on the table by | management and general ignorance about how little Jira | actually imposes on you by the gangpressed users. | | Most of that bloat you have to deal with? Blame your | bosses, not Atlassian. | Nullabillity wrote: | Jira is a bloated piece of garbage out of the box. It | doesn't need PHB configuration to get there. | servercobra wrote: | Exactly. Brand new project, no configuration? Runs like | trash. And then you add in all the manager/PM overhead. | aeturnum wrote: | One of the things I think about is how important scale is for | evaluating the viability of a product. | | I suspect that there aren't enough people who would pay $99 for | a IDE theme to support an ongoing company with employees. | However, for a single designer, it's perfect. The fact that | 99.9% of the population turns their nose up doesn't matter | because 0.1% is still 600,000 people. $100k is just over 1000 | sales, which seems eminently doable for nearly any project. | | My take-away is that - if you're considering a solo side | project that will only work if you charge a "high" price (which | probably isn't as high as you think it is) or if you get a ton | of sales - try charging the high price! | ZephyrBlu wrote: | The "you only need 0.1% of people" is a fallacy: | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5358310. | aeturnum wrote: | From the article: "...it doesn't work, unless you have | massive amounts of funding or a brilliant idea that can | completely disrupt the existing the market." | | That's why I said scale of the project matters. Using a 1% | (or 0.1%) metric _to found a company_ is rubbish. Using it | to guesstimate if a personal project might get some buyers | seems much more reasonable. This probably isn 't a $100k | recurring revenue project, but it's reasonable to imagine | that you could get up to $100k revenue selling a $99 | product to programmers. | matwood wrote: | People pay for convenience every single day. Just look at | Starbucks. | the_af wrote: | True. On the other hand, $79 (or even the discounted price of | $29) is pretty steep for what is only one minor optional tool | in a dev's toolset. Imagine if you paid a similar amount for | every single tool you use, no matter how trivial. | | If you have a microtransaction for everything in your | computer, they start to add up pretty fast. At some point you | have to pick and choose, and nice UI themes start to seem | less essential... | | (Also, do note outside the first world $29 is not such a | small amount of money. And $79 is unthinkable for a UI | theme). | suyash wrote: | not developers, look at GitHub - it's all for free | grumple wrote: | Yeah, but that also serves the purpose of making us | encourage our workplaces to use GitHub, and they pay for | it. | zenorocha wrote: | I disagree with the argument that developers don't pay for | things. Yes, there's a huge open source culture where | people can have access to free code on GitHub. However, | there's a huge market of paid products that developers will | purchase. There are many examples out there like Tailwind, | Chakra UI, Envato, etc. | jiofih wrote: | I pay for GitHub | duckmysick wrote: | Yes - developers. Look how many of them pay for Digital | Ocean/AWS to host their projects instead of rolling their | own servers. | kcartlidge wrote: | > not developers, look at GitHub - it's all for free | | I _do_ use the free stuff (GitHub, VS Code, etc). | | And I _also_ pay for NCrunch, Wallaby, RubyMine, Rider, | GoLand, PyCharm, FastMail, PCloud, and more. | | Most of the stuff I pay for has free equivalents (and yes, | I know JetBrains have an all-products subscription rather | than separate Ruby, .Net, Go, and Python, but I have | reasons). | therealmarv wrote: | Wow, I created a color theme for VSCode some years ago (which | actually got some attention by some people and there was one | guy even adapting it to Google Chrome dev console) and not even | one second I thought that this kind of stuff could be monetised | in any way. Well done. | zenorocha wrote: | Same thing happened with me. I built this theme as an open | source project and forgot it existed. People started to | create different forks and port them to different platforms. | One day I realized how big that was and decided to monetize. | One year later 100k. Crazy! | [deleted] | Vinnl wrote: | > I never had time to work on my open source projects, but now | that I was monetizing, I was able to spend more time doing | something I love. | | That's pretty cool, but also only is true because he appears to | love creating marketing pages, blogging, writing a book, creating | themes for applications he doesn't use himself, etc. | | I'm happy that he (/you, I see you're reading along Zeno - thanks | for sharing), but it's not exactly what I'd have in mind for my | "working on open source" daydream :) | dukeofdoom wrote: | I watched Brandon Li's video yesterday on how to turn a shot into | a scene. I feel like it strangely applies to marketing for solo | developers. You packaged your disperse config files into a | cohesive product, with a unified look, and your website even has | an emotional response to it. | | Here's his insight. | | How to turn a SHOT into a SCENE - Travel Video Storytelling | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCTjxk33juo | zenorocha wrote: | I really like his take on recording a shot vs. recording a | scene. Thanks for sharing! | pta2002 wrote: | I checked out the theme itself, and immediately a message showed | up saying that it detected my country and offered me a discount | code to make sure that the theme is still affordable for my | country. | | It's simple things like this that probably help a side project | like this get to where it is, great job! | ggerganov wrote: | I wonder how does one put a price on a product like this. For | example, if I am paying for a cloud VM instance, I could | calculate the energy per CPU, hardware costs, etc. and | ultimately come to a reasonable price. What would be the | thought process for reaching a certain price for this specific | product? | zenorocha wrote: | I can't emphasize enough how important Purchasing Parity Power | is. Making it affordable for other countries is crucial. | quaffapint wrote: | What do you use to provide this? | notwhereyouare wrote: | he mentions in one of the embedded tweets: | https://twitter.com/zenorocha/status/1349340816964153345 | | seems a combination of cloudflare worker and a couple other | tools | [deleted] | shaggy8871 wrote: | This is very cool, I love the vibrant colours even though it's a | dark theme. | 0x008 wrote: | Am I the only one who thinks the theme has too high of a | contrast? | zenorocha wrote: | Definitely not, that's why I built multiple variations :) | Arubis wrote: | Edit: I misunderstood; see child comment. | | Original: Clarification: that's $100K in a _month_, not annual. | (Very impressive, I might add!) | zenorocha wrote: | That's actually annual. It's the total sales from February 2020 | until February 2021. | zenorocha wrote: | Hello HN friends! | | Today is a special day. My solo side project has hit 100K in | sales, which is absolutely insane. When I started this thing, I | never thought this would happen. | | Monetizing an open-source project is very difficult, so I decided | to share my personal journey and lessons learned. | | This is a visual timeline showing all the lessons learned from $0 | to $100k in one year. | | I hope this can be helpful and inspire your own journey :) | | Let me know if you have any questions! I'm here to answer every | single one of them. | ed_voc wrote: | Congrats on the success. | | Did you get many repeat customers? I see the licence is limited | to 3 machines instead of the user. Did this have the effect of | getting customers to buy additional licences? | | It would be interesting to know if people are willing to pay | again so they can use software on multiple devices or if it is | more likely to put people off buying the software. | dvt wrote: | Huge congrats! Been following Dracula for a while :) | zenorocha wrote: | Thanks! Let me know if you need anything ;) | jqquah wrote: | Congrats man | | Really enjoyed reading the journey, it was long but wow. | zenorocha wrote: | I'm glad this was helpful! | kylegalbraith wrote: | Just wanted to say congrats on the success and that I really | enjoyed the post. The timeline outline of it all was a lot | easier to read and follow than similar posts I have read around | these types of things. | grumple wrote: | Congrats dude! I'm impressed by this project and that you got | people to pay for it. Any why shouldn't they? It takes time and | skills to do design work like this. | rexreed wrote: | This is great visibility! | | But it leaves one big thing out. You didn't launch with no one | paying attention. You already had a fan base - people you could | reach out to. I know you had to build your email list from | scratch, but at least you know who was going to be in that | list, and those people already knew and had a relationship with | you. | | You should go back farther in time to when you had no | following, no people who cared, and no one who knew your name. | As you said below, it's a 7 year overnight success. For those | who want to replicate your success (not your product), what | advice do you have for those who want to build a following so | that later they can capture that following into something that | will be beneficial? | HeyLaughingBoy wrote: | That's a very good point that people often fail to consider! | | I'm far from expert in this, but I'll reply with what my wife | would say. She's in a completely unrelated, non-technical | field and has a pretty good online following. In short: post | things people are interested in, follow up with the ones who | respond or ask questions and be genuinely interested in the | people who follow you. Don't be fake. | | The theory is simple, putting it into practice for your | particular field is the hard part :-) | An0mammall wrote: | Congrats man, that's amazing | zenorocha wrote: | Thank you so much :D | ct0 wrote: | Congrats! Im just hoping that you can include Rstudio in your | list of apps. Thanks! | Taylor_OD wrote: | Congrats! They is quite the milestone. No questions. Just a | congrats and thank you for sharing your story. | zenorocha wrote: | Thank you so much Taylor! | snow_mac wrote: | What was your website traffic before you launched your product? | How did people find you? | HenryBemis wrote: | Thank you for sharing!! This can act as an insiration and a | guide to many who are thinking about making a similar step, but | don't. | rwieruch wrote: | Congrats! \o/ | | NB: Really refreshing how you created this timeline! You should | make a (Gatsby) theme out of it :) | zenorocha wrote: | Good idea! | rmsaksida wrote: | Congrats! | imwillofficial wrote: | So special request. Would you consider making a theme for the | Nova text editor by Panic? It's my go to lately! | zenorocha wrote: | The open source version is here https://draculatheme.com/nova | | In the next couple of weeks, I should add the premium version | on Dracula PRO ;) | imwillofficial wrote: | Awesome, thanks! | robm50 wrote: | Good job, sir. | andreygrehov wrote: | Question. | | In this tweet [1] you mentioned that Dracula PRO was in the works | for 7 years. | | 1. Would it possible to start monetizing the product earlier? | | 2. If yes, how much earlier in the case of Dracula PRO? | | While $100k looks like an impressive number, in the grand scheme | of things, it's just 14k/year, which is about $1150/month, which | equates to an hourly wage of $6,50. Knowing what you know now, | what would you do differently if you were to maximize revenue? | | [1] https://twitter.com/zenorocha/status/1227622330731335686 | imwillofficial wrote: | An amazing body of work. I'm beyond impressed. Thoughtful, well | designed, and well researched. I never liked the Dracula theme | much, but I'm going to snag this just to support great stuff | being put out into the world. | zenorocha wrote: | That's awesome! Give it a shot and if you don't like it I can | give you a refund right away. | idlewords wrote: | Congrats to the OP! One lesson in these graphs that is very | important to internalize is how spiky they are. When you're | small, you'll make most of your money on a few special days, | based on events that might be out of your control. | | Given that dynamic, it can be hard to distinguish cause from | effect, let alone layer on things like A/B tests or other | statistical analysis that might hold for things at bigger scale. | dna_polymerase wrote: | From reading the name of the project I wouldn't have guessed it's | a color scheme for a lot of apps. I wouldn't even thought of that | as a viable market. Congratulations to you. This is amazing. | | I think the most valuable lesson here is, that there is a market | for a lot more things than we would have thought a few | years/decades back. Kind of how Spotify enable niche band to have | successes outside the mainstream, just by allowing people to | listen to every fringe corner of the musical ecosystem. | zenorocha wrote: | Totally agree. Niches make riches. | xmly wrote: | Great theme! 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