6 Premium Plugin Development Business Success Stories [2023]
Here are some real life success stories of starting a Premium plugin development business:
1. Visualmodo ($360K/year)
Visualmodo (from São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil) started Visualmodo about 13 years ago.
I’m Claudio Pires, co-founder of Visualmodo. With Jared Dias, we started an internet business to sell quality codes and share useful content to let everybody create their online space. Visualmodo started as a WordPress theme development company, but now we do media, content, plugins and are still doing WordPress themes.
We have a 360k business selling themes, plugins, and services and the market is growing, but at the start, we did 1 or 2 sales (of 49USD each) per week and things did take a lot of time to show some results.
2. Space Z
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- Website traffic: 22B/month
- Business rank: #6
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Learn more about starting a Premium plugin development business:
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-> How much does it cost to start a Premium plugin development business?
-> Pros and cons of a Premium plugin development business
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-> Examples of established Premium plugin development business
-> Marketing ideas for a Premium plugin development business
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Millions trust Grammarly’s free writing app to make their online writing clear and effective. Getting started is simple — download Grammarly’s extension today.
- Website traffic: 66.7M/month
- Business rank: #141
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5. wix.com
Create a free website with Wix.com. Choose a stunning template and customize anything with the Wix website builder—no coding skills needed. Create yours today!
- Website traffic: 52.6M/month
- Business rank: #184
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