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How to monetize chrome extension? - FlashyBeach - Jan 8, 2021
Paid extensions are not allowed on the webstore anymore, but in-app purchases are still allowed. What is the most common way of doing this? I've come across an interesting niche that has potential for thousands of $5/month subscriptions. How is this handled these days?
RE: How to monetize chrome extension? - Tafelpoot - Jan 11, 2021
What's the size of your user base?
RE: How to monetize chrome extension? - FlashyBeach - Jan 11, 2021
I have access to about 40,000, and this is just in English speaking countries. The next best tool costs $800. But mine is a severely limited version of it, but enough for a big portion of people to reach more productivity. The ROI is there.
RE: How to monetize chrome extension? - Tafelpoot - Jan 12, 2021
Well with that many users you could easily sell it.
I have some neat ways to monetize this, but it requires a significant amount of development.
RE: How to monetize chrome extension? - FlashyBeach - Jan 12, 2021
I was just thinking of a monthly fee of like $5. Could just put some dumb stripe integration as a lambda function on AWS and simply check if the user's email associated with the chrome account is in a database and allow/disallow access depending on it.
RE: How to monetize chrome extension? - Tafelpoot - Jan 12, 2021
That makes the most sense if it's a legit business. Just offer them pro functionality and let them buy a product-key.
Check out other extension that do the same and download them using crx viewer to check their source.
Just make it as user friendly as possible.
RE: How to monetize chrome extension? - FlashyBeach - Jan 13, 2021
(Jan 12, 2021 02:26 PM)Tafelpoot Wrote: That makes the most sense if it's a legit business. Just offer them pro functionality and let them buy a product-key.
Check out other extension that do the same and download them using crx viewer to check their source.
Just make it as user friendly as possible.
It's all legit. Didn't know about CRX viewer, thanks! Although I guess most of the payment processing goes on in some remote server.
RE: How to monetize chrome extension? - Tafelpoot - Jan 13, 2021
Your best bet is using the Stripe API on your domain, then in the chrome extension open a page in browser with you domain where they can get a product key.
As mentioned before, simply check out other sources.
RE: How to monetize chrome extension? - ellis - Jan 14, 2021
One of my teams is using Stripe and it's been the easiest solution for us by far - I would check out their API docs and google some implementations if you need it, should have everything u needs.
RE: How to monetize chrome extension? - QProxies - Feb 14, 2022
(Jan 8, 2021 12:12 PM)FlashyBeach Wrote: Paid extensions are not allowed on the webstore anymore, but in-app purchases are still allowed. What is the most common way of doing this? I've come across an interesting niche that has potential for thousands of $5/month subscriptions. How is this handled these days?
DM me i can really help with this.
RE: How to monetize chrome extension? - Truth - Feb 14, 2022
I think you can create a extension that allows users to sign in. You can setup subscription logins for $5/month or so
GL and ill be interested in more details if you're willing to share or maybe partner up