[Journey] - From PHP Novice to 10 Sales of a WordPress Plugin on Code Canyon

I hate this lack of good practices in WordPress.

If you begin coding, you need someone to help you with architecture.

That's called frameworks which WordPress won't accept. I see roots.io team attempting to create one but they appear to be slow.

So the only way around is to get some boilerplate / scaffolding aka find a good plugin with source-code with good practices and rip the shit out of it.

Maybe rewriting WooCommerce is a good starting point. Lol. I think it's the only reliable thing in this whole ecosystem (except WP itself).

People destroyed WooCommerce anyways cause they create the same plugin 10 times that connects with WooCommerce and each of them does the desired thing differently.

The lack of standards is a major thing there.

And how in the hell does someone code without package managers in 2022? When you go to WordPress guides, they don't teach you how to do that.

Instead they will talk about some hidden GOLD action hooks and filters which are produced in excess and not even documented well.

When you look at different technologies, you will realize these hooks and filters resemble stacking middleware and interceptors indefinitely.

And it's not a good practice to overuse them. And that's exactly what WordPress does.

Goodluck with your journey mate!
I'm a PHP developer too. Maybe I'll think about selling some projects on codecanyon.

reaaski said:

Probably BHW marketplace would be a better performer than envato with regards to extremely high fees.

There is a hefty number of guys on that marketplace having 100+ products. They manage to make $2k per month passively after extremely high fees.

So prepare your boilterplate, universal architecture and master one stack to spam these apps.

You need 100 products, so if you want to be profitable, you'll need to make a MVP like product in 3 days. In 300 days you'll have a set and forget thing (with 1000s of people banging on your doors for customer support).

Simple conclusion is that it's not worth it cause full time developer will make 5x that amount.

And with WordPress you're choosing (almost) the worst developer experience possible. I'd not be surprised to see someone spend 6 months to generate $5k.

I don't know if you're already on the white hat side, but if you aren't, consider building black hat software.

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What do you consider black hat software?

I can build RATs and low level malware or NFT/Crypto related software. Monetizing the first is hard though, because it's hard to spread or get admin perms on someone's PC. Something like torrents for software could work but would probably have low downloads.

White hat/a legit SaaS seems more profitable tbh.

hustler32 said:

What do you consider black hat software?

I can build RATs and low level malware or NFT/Crypto related software. Monetizing the first is hard though, because it's hard to spread or get admin perms on someone's PC. Something like torrents for software could work but would probably have low downloads.

White hat/a legit SaaS seems more profitable tbh.

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There isn't a future in low-level malware; really, better find something better suited to a larger audience, like gaming or an app. I struggle to hold back on ideas, so take a note of things that will make your life easier and build them, then see if people like those tools. That's all you can do to find your niche. Eventually, after reaching down to search the first your strike gold and come up with some, as long as your mining in the right place. Torrents, is like the garbage bag of people's needs. People are happy to pay for good quality software from legitimate sources, even if that is just a web portal. Its all about what you do to promote things after that.

Panther28 said:

There isn't a future in low-level malware; really, better find something better suited to a larger audience, like gaming or an app. I struggle to hold back on ideas, so take a note of things that will make your life easier and build them, then see if people like those tools. That's all you can do to find your niche. Eventually, after reaching down to search the first your strike gold and come up with some, as long as your mining in the right place. Torrents, is like the garbage bag of people's needs. People are happy to pay for good quality software from legitimate sources, even if that is just a web portal. Its all about what you do to promote things after that.

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Agreed, my post was aimed at the other guy's statement that black hat is more profitable, when from personal experience I know that it is definitely not at all, unless you discover some sort of powerful exploit.

Building legit projects or services is where the money seems to be.