$400K and 23 Countries From a $30 Plugin

FormCraft is a form plugin for WordPress that was launched back in 2013 by Nishant Agrawal.

Nishant sells the plugin via the CodeCanyon marketplace 👀

The listing shows 21,000+ sales at $30 per license.

21K x $30 = $630,000 🤑

CodeCanyon takes a cut of that revenue, but even so it’s likely Nishant has earned around $400,000 from that plugin alone.

🏝️ That income has given him a lot of freedom…

In 2013 I gave up my apartment to live a nomadic life, while working on FormCrafts. I have since been to 23 countries, and lived in 8 of them.

I tried out the demo version of Nishant’s plugin. It’s simple to use but packs in a lot of features.

However, browse the comments and reviews and you’ll see a lot of complaints and feature requests 💬

One request that Nishant says isn’t possible with the plugin…

We want to created a web based form that will serve as a check-in kiosk for delivery drivers at a stationary iPad. They will need to submit information like name, number, tracking number but also the ability to take pictures of the delivery notice with the iPad camera without leaving the form page. Is this possible?

So clearly there are plenty of opportunities to build an improved version of FormCraft.

Or, better yet, to create a niche version that solves a specific problem like the one above 👆

Of course, you’d need to do some research to make sure there’s a big enough market there for a viable business.

Beyond this, you could browse CodeCanyon or similar marketplaces, looking for other long-time bestsellers with lots of complaints or feature requests 🧐

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