Push vs pull
jasonleow • 15 Dec 2022 •
The past few weekly recaps revealed an interesting trend. I’m filling out entire pages full of ideas for my Plugins For Carrd project.
It’s like I’m sensing so many opportunities, chancing on new ideas for plugins, discovering business ideas to try, and things to optimise for Plugins.
But here’s the weird thing:
I’d decided to drop my main project and no longer have any main projects.
I’d decided that all my projects will stay as small bets, even if they get big.
I’d decided to spend more time on Plugins For Carrd, even if it stays a small bet.
I’m not sure how the newfound opportunities figure in my decisions to keep things small, but everything about the reality seems to be contradicting these decisions.
I’m spending more time, yet I call it a small bet?
I’m working on it mostly, yet it’s not my main project?
I have a deluge of new opportunities and ideas, yet I care about it being big or small?
I’ve been pulled forward all along by it, yet I’m telling myself to not push?
Am I in denial about the project? Indulging in self-deception or protecting some part of my ego here?
Or do we always have to conflate effort spent to a project’s priority/size?
I think I’ve spent lots of time and effort on previous projects with huge expectations, yet nothing to show for. Perhaps I can now try spending some time and effort with little/zero expectations, yet show some degree of results/success.
Or maybe I’m simply not used to working hard on a product pulling me forward, while reining in my expectations and emotions for it?
I have many questions. More questions than answers.
Many contradictions and paradoxes.
I’m not sure where I’m going with this. Writing to figure it out and mirror back the hard questions to myself…
Comments
@tao Thanks mate! Heh yes I do get inspiration from WP plugins. In fact, the main reason why I called it plugins and not widgets/components/scripts is because of WP plugins! But thanks for the reminder, I should really dive in more into WP plugins ecosystem and research what are the top plugins people pay for!
What are some popular paid WP plugins that come to mind for you?
The main ones I can think of are related to paid membership access to websites, eCommerce and better form handling. There is a maintained list here of the best selling plugins at Codecanyon. I guess the issue might be that some require database access or some sort of back-end capability to work well, rather than just on-page.
Awesome thanks for the link! Yeah I totally referenced Codecanyon when I was deciding on the biz model and pricing. Noticed the average Codecanyon script was around $15 so that’s how I started. Also adopted the single and unlimited license model from there.
The issue of requiring a db might actually be an opportunity for great micro SaaS ideas for Carrd. Make it even harder to clone or compete! (Already I’m starting to see more Carrd templates sellers get into sharing scripts and small coded plugins)
Just a thought, it might be worth looking a the more popular paid WordPress plugins to see if they can be replicated on Carrd? I am not a Carrd user, so don’t know what the pain points are, but I assume they will be similar to the needs to WordPress users.