6 Document Sharing Tool Success Stories [2024]

Updated: November 1st, 2023
Develop A Document Sharing Tool

Here are some real life success stories of starting a document sharing tool:

Learn more about starting a document sharing tool:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a document sharing tool?
-> Pros and cons of a document sharing tool

Need inspiration?

-> Examples of established document sharing tool
-> Marketing ideas for a document sharing tool

Other resources

1. DocPress.it ($9.6K/year)

The founder collaborated with various guest writers for the blogs but faced difficulties in publishing their articles from Google Docs to WordPress.

He had to manually save images separately, and copy-pasting the content didn’t work correctly, depending on the article, it took 30 minutes to format it with the necessary headings, images, and other elements.

To automate these tedious processes, he started working on Google Docs add-ons.

How much they make: $9.6K/year
How much did it cost to start: $9K
Current team size: 1

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I Built A Tool That Makes It Easy To Export Google Docs To WordPress [1,000+ Users]

DocPress.it founder, Alex, built an add-on for Google Docs that helps users automate the tasks of SEO content analysis, generating article intros with AI, image renaming, and others when publishing content; the platform now has over 1100 users and makes around $500 MRR.

About
Alex started DocPress.it about 2 years ago
Revenue
Alex grew the business to $800/month
Costs
It cost Alex $9000 to start the business
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4. Tumblr

Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your people.

Where they're located: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Website traffic: 328M/month

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5. Box | Login

Box empowers your teams by making it easy to work with people inside and outside your organization, protect your valuable content, and connect all your apps.

Where they're located: San Jose, California, USA
Website traffic: 51.8M/month

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6. DocSend

Try our secure document sharing platform for free. Instantly know when documents are opened & what pages are read. Easy-to-use eSignatures.

Website traffic: 1.82M/month