Previously, in a comment on my blog, he mentioned that Bingo Card Creator has a higher conversion rate by "more than an order of magnitude" from him, which would imply his donation rate was at the time below .2%
He prefers to be circumspect with regards to exactly how much money he makes. As I respect his privacy, I will not elaborate further on my earlier comment that he does quite well with donations.
I disagree- it just reflects what the market value of a wordpress plugin is. Anyone who feels they're not fairly rewarded can just stop doing it. Nobody is forcing them to do the work.
Besides, they most likely have motivations other than money- there's no way anyone starts making wordpress plugins thinking they're going to get rich (at least I hope not!)
Maybe not rich but there are several plugin developers that make a decent amount of revenue by selling plugins. For example check out Dan Grossman and his review plugin: http://wpreviewsite.com
While I'd love to make more money from the Wordpress plugins I've worked on, so far I've been content w/ the $10 I've received over the last two years because I did it to gain experience and have fun doing something I enjoy. Fortunately, I've been able to take that knowledge and apply it to my day job and it's paid off far more than any donations ever could have.
I saw that ad last week, and of the 4 or so randomly selected friends, I was incredulous that one of them had a score of less than 130, and that another had a score as high as 130.
Ordinarily I would be tempted to waste time competing with my friends, but it was too obvious a scam.
And yes, I did feel a bit guilty that I obviously judge people I know as bright or not-so.
the pure number is always nice; has a BAM! factor. But what is important (at least to me) is time on site, interaction , bounce rates, returning visitors etc...
- I don't know if you can even get a synopsis of how good or bad a site is doing based on one number. However we know twitter is doing well. :)
'course we do. They have lots of challenges now and down the road, but you can't look at at a b2c website with a graph like that and not say that they are doing well.
Facebook and Google are both verbally and visibly reacting to Twitter. That's amazing.
They could pick up the phone right now and say, "We're ready to sell" and sell their company to one or more of the big boys. That's pretty impressive.
Are they profitable? Nope. Are they "getting lean", asking "five whys", measuring the hell out of everything, and other Eric Reis-isms? Probably not.
But there are probably VERY few entrepreneurs on the planet who wouldn't trade startups with @ev and @biz. They are kicking ass.
