How many here make a living from coding plugins?
A few years ago, I ripped the umbilical chord and started making plugins and selling them as my main income source. It's gone well for me, but I find myself completely unaware if I'm doing things right. I'm kind of just making this stuff up as I go along, and as long as I'm surviving, I feel like I'm doing ok. But I have no real gauge on what the upper limit is.
When I go to NAMM and I see other plugin developers there, it's almost always a team of people. Many of them haven't come out with a new plugin in years, and I always wonder how in the world these guys can do this and support that many employees. I make about enough to pay myself and invest a bit back into research, but not much more than that.
I'm curious to know from those of you who do this for a living. What are some of the things you do that work? Do you spend most of your time coding plugins? What marketing tactics have paid off really well, and which ones have been duds?
I've given up on the idea that other plugin developers are competitors. I'm more than happy to share things that have worked or haven't worked for me. But again, I have no real frame of reference to know if my working is someone else's failing.
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