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How to monetize your Lovable app: Add paid plans without writing a single line of code
Alisa Marković by Alisa Marković

How to monetize your Lovable app: Add paid plans without writing a single line of code

What does it actually take to monetize a Lovable app from scratch? Not much, it turns out. With Freemius’ Lovable integration, the full setup — pricing page, checkout, paywalls, subscription…

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136 WordPress Business Tips For Selling Plugins & Themes (From the Experts)
Yash Rana by Yash Rana

136 WordPress Business Tips For Selling Plugins & Themes (From the Experts)

About a year ago we started the Experts Corner video series. We reached out to influential, experienced product business owners in the WordPress space, asking them to share their thoughts…

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From Side Project to 200K Users: The Bootstrap Success Story That’s Disrupting WordPress Theme
Milos Tanasijevic by Milos Tanasijevic

From Side Project to 200K Users: The Bootstrap Success Story That’s Disrupting WordPress Theme

We’ve had the pleasure of talking with two amazing young guys from the Republic of Moldova, Sergiu and Andrei, the creators of Blocksy and the founders of CreativeThemes. Blocksy started…

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How Aaron Bowie Left His IT Job to Build a Full-Blown WooCommerce Extensions Business
Brandon Ernst by Brandon Ernst

How Aaron Bowie Left His IT Job to Build a Full-Blown WooCommerce Extensions Business

This month, I had the chance to interview Aaron Bowie, a super-chill guy based in the UK who like many of us, made the transition from IT guy to plugin…

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Freemius is Getting into Video Content – This is Why You Should Too
Ben Lev by Ben Lev

Freemius is Getting into Video Content – This is Why You Should Too

1981 was the year when MTV exploded into the world. The introduction of music videos forever changed the way we consume and enjoy music. Around the same time, a British…

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Selling WordPress Plugins and Themes From Your Website – All Best Practices In 1 Place
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

Selling WordPress Plugins and Themes From Your Website – All Best Practices In 1 Place

Gone are the days in which you could wrap a few PHP functions into a WordPress plugin or even quickly convert a PSD file into a generic WordPress theme and…

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1 Developer Grew WP Mobile Menu Rapidly With These Tactics
Kobe Ben Itamar by Kobe Ben Itamar

1 Developer Grew WP Mobile Menu Rapidly With These Tactics

Rui Guerreiro is the creator of WP Mobile Menu, a user-friendly, dedicated and responsive WordPress menu plugin which has just hit 40k active installs on the official WordPress.org repository, while…

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Introducing Freemius Checkout: Sell Your WordPress Products Anywhere
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

Introducing Freemius Checkout: Sell Your WordPress Products Anywhere

I’m excited to announce the all new Freemius Checkout we’ve been hard at work on in the past few months. It is now finally out.

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Premium vs. Add-ons – Which is the Best Model for Your WordPress Plugin?
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

Premium vs. Add-ons – Which is the Best Model for Your WordPress Plugin?

WooCommerce, iThemes Exchange, and other successful WordPress companies have managed to build significant businesses through the add-ons monetization model. It’s very tempting just to follow in their footsteps based on…

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Why WordPress Plugin Developers Have to Start Thinking SaaS
Vova Feldman by Vova Feldman

Why WordPress Plugin Developers Have to Start Thinking SaaS

Is WordPress SaaS like plugins the future? In an interview for WPSchool, Matt Mullenweg mentioned that one of Automattic’s BIG and “silly” mistakes during their first years was not adding automated…

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