Bonify

How We Are Building Profitable Shopify Apps From Our Consulting Experience

April 14th, 2019
Dan Pepin
Founder, Bonify
$42K
revenue/mo
2
Founders
0
Employees
Bonify
from Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
started May 2014
$42,000
revenue/mo
2
Founders
0
Employees
market size
$143B
avg revenue (monthly)
$99.1K
starting costs
$11.7K
gross margin
90%
time to build
210 days
growth channels
SEO
business model
subscription
best tools
Google Drive, Quickbooks, YouTube
time investment
Full time
pros & cons
39 Pros & Cons
tips
12 Tips
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

Hey there! My name is Dan Pepin and I co-founded Bonify five years ago with my business partner, John Carbone. Bonify started out in life as a small web development agency focused on building amazing websites for clients. However, for the past three years, we’ve been slowly transitioning the business from client services to paid online app subscriptions, which has been no easy feat!

Our current major endeavor is growing our portfolio of Shopify apps and increasing customer acquisition. We currently have three apps in the Shopify app store and we’re quite happy that the apps are bringing in $15,000/mo, but our goal is to nearly double our app revenue by the end of this year.

The most popular app we have is the first one we launched about three years ago called Custom Fields. The app allows store owners to add extra structured data to anything in Shopify, which enhances a lot of the flexibility of what you can do with store customizations. We very recently launched Mr. Arigato - Task...

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