Patrick Posner is the creator of a portfolio of Wordpress plugins which have been downloaded almost a million times collectively making him $12k p/m. Patrick went full time indie in 2020 and since then has both grown quickly and scaled back operations to build the best sort of life for him. I love these types of stories of relatively unknown indie hackers who are creating the dream life for themselves.

What we covered in this episode:

Building Wordpress plugins on the side of a day job
Marketing for Wordpress plugins
Getting 1m downloads
Beating a domain reseller
Finding SEO keywords to rank for
Pricing yearly vs monthly
Growing fast and scaling back

Recommendations

Book - Why We Sleep
Podcast - The Bootstrapped Founder
Indie Hacker - tbc

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Making $12k p/m with Wordpress plugins - Patrick Posner