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How Frontend Mentor makes money
Monetization →Frontend Mentor monetizes primarily through a freemium business model where users can access free challenges or subscribe to a PRO membership for premium challenges and original design files. The PRO subscription offers access to original design files and premium multi-page website challenges, and is available for a monthly or yearly fee. Initially, Frontend Mentor also monetized by selling design files as one-time purchases using platforms like Buy Me a Coffee and Dropbox.
How Frontend Mentor grew
Growth →Frontend Mentor's growth has primarily been driven by word of mouth, with users recommending the platform and sharing their project solutions on social media. The platform facilitated this sharing by making it easy for users to post their completed projects on Twitter, LinkedIn, and within its Slack community, which also grew to tens of thousands of members helping each other. Additional growth channels included exposure through web development newsletters, a Product Hunt launch that earned third place and publicity, collaborations with other companies, guest podcast appearances, and developers streaming project completions on platforms like YouTube and Twitch.
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Fathom Analytics
Stripe
Chargebee
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Key facts
- Website
- frontendmentor.io
- Category
- Education
- Customers
- B2B & B2C
- Founded
- 2018 · 8 years ago
- Makes money via
- Recurring subscriptions, One-time / lifetime deals
- Sources
- 20 public sources
Sources 20
Sources →12 web pages · 3 podcasts · 2 Indie Hackers posts
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