During the pandemic, I made an online version of the game Mexican Train ( mexicantrain.online ). It became popular in retirement communities during lockdown. Gameplay has dropped off significantly since, but I still have several regular players. It averages about 50 games/day and between $500 and $1000/month, all from donations.
It kind of depends on what the SaaS does. But I’ve had a lot of success with B2C apps on WordPress. It handles user management, routing, and dashboard out of the box with a few free or cheap plugins. Then depending on what the app is meant to do, I write code or manipulate plugins to do what I need.
I launched a new WordPress plugin a few months ago and we’re offering a Black Friday deal. OMGIMG ( http://omgimg.co/ ) is for editing featured images and generating Open Graph images inside WordPress. We’re offering 50% off forever!
Using the right words is only half the battle. The advantage of SEO WordPress plug-ins is they serve the words in meta-tags that are read by social networks when your post is shared and when search engines like Google return your post in search results.
In the 90s and 00s, we’d create “buy now” buttons on PayPal and drop them in the HTML. They still have “buy now” button builders, and people trust PayPal.
timer.express: tag-based, one-fee time tracking (in-progress, but online). React, php.
Timerdoro: productivity timer. React, WordPress.
My own recipe site, not public. WordPress.
Daily email-based diary. Two php scripts and Mailgun's api.
Daily email I reply
To to keep a diary: two php scripts and mailgun.
My own recipe site: WordPress.
Tag-based time tracking (in-progress) at timer.express: react, php api.
Productively timer at timerdoro.com: react, WordPress.
Configurable image cropper for client use at crop.express: vanilla JavaScript, html.
Timerdoro.com - It's been online for more than a decade. Hundreds of users every day. Hasn't made me dime. I suppose I could slap ads on it, but wouldn't anticipate it makes much...
