The Success Stories of AAWP, ClickWhale, and MH Themes: Florian Daugalies
Welcome, Florian! Please tell us about your background, what inspired you to become a developer, and what you do outside of work. Thanks so much! I’m Florian, 40 years young,…
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No Shortcuts, Just Hard Work: How Robert Abela from Melapress Built Security Plugins Trusted by Enterprises
Success is a journey of continuous learning for many software makers, and Robert Abela’s story is no exception. He believes wholeheartedly that long-term dedication and hard work are the keys…
Software Guru Meets Entrepreneur: How Ivan Halaka and Taurus Sinkus Made Webba Booking a Success
When a talented technical mind meets an entrepreneurial spirit, great products can happen — and this is exactly the case with Webba Booking.
Mike Nelson of Print My Blog on Building a Five-Figure Side Project Without Sacrificing All His Free Time
For many developers, the satisfaction of making software products lies in creating genuinely useful things for people (all from the comfort of your home office or local coffee shop 😉)….
How Senol Sahin Launched the First AI-Powered Content Creation Plugin on the WP.org Repo
Serving others, identifying the right opportunity at the right time, and putting in good old-fashioned grit have been the key factors to success for Senol Sahin’s content generation plugin AI…
From College Side Gig to WordPress Entrepreneurship: Ben Sibley’s Success Story With Independent Analytics
Ben Sibley has always had an entrepreneurial spirit, as illustrated by the fact that he’s only had one ‘normal’ job — cashiering at a grocery store during high school. While…
Sailing the Waves: How Alan Fuller Left Corporate Finance & Found Fulfillment & Success In Plugin Development
The age-old platitude that it’s never too late to learn or start over? It doesn’t get any truer than for Alan Fuller, founder of Fullworks, a successful WordPress plugin company…
From a Baseball Fan’s Website to the Most Popular WordPress Table Plugin – The Success Story of TablePress
Don’t discount your hobbies because there’s always a chance they could lead to greater things. For Tobias Bäthge, the success of TablePress — the top WordPress table plugin — is…
From MVP to Success Story 📈 How User Feedback Shaped Ivory Search & Led to 100K+ Active Installs
Success Stories are back with a 💥 In July, I had the pleasure of interviewing Vinod Dalvi, the creator of one of WordPress’s leading search plugins, Ivory Search. Previously known…
All-in or Nothing! How Trial & Error + a Drive to Be the Best Led to Success for Unlimited Elements
In November, I had the pleasure of chatting with Amit Keren and Maxim Vendrov, Founders of one of Elementor’s leading plugins, Unlimited Elements. From a realization that they weren’t working…
The WP Job Openings Success Story: Don’t Build From Assumptions, Build for Demand
Hi Aravind, thanks for joining us today! Please tell us about yourself, your interests/talents, and where you’re from Thanks for the opportunity! My name is Aravind Ajith, and I am…
100K+ Active Installs: How FiboSearch Became the Leading WooCommerce Search Plugin
A warm welcome to Damian Góra, the brains behind the most prominent WooCommerce search plugin, FiboSearch, and the latest guest in our Success Story showcase of awesome products and awesome…
How Mark Zahra Led Spotlight Instagram Feeds Plugin to 10k+ Active Installs in Less than 9 Months
The next in our series of success stories is Mark Zahra, CEO of RebelCode – the company behind WP Mayor, WP RSS Aggregator and several more WordPress plugins. His team…
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…
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…