1 | Started | Project | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
2 | 2015 | Design & Development service for Indian MSME Businesses | Failed: Failed to convert any client in the domestic market. We were told that we were charging too high. |
3 | 2016 | Qdonow Etsy Store selling blogspot & WordPress themes | Meh: Nice side income between 2016-19. Sold 587 Copies for $10.5K. Discontinued in 2019. |
4 | 2016 | Selling 30+ Blog themes (Qdonow theme Store) | Success: Sold ~500 copies from themes.qdonow.com store for ~$12K. Also generated $10K from custom services like website design and development services & other customization services. Discontinued in 2019. |
5 | 2016 | Daphne Blog Template (WP/Blogspot) | Success: Our most successful theme. Generated 70% of our sales alone as direct copy sale as well as custom development services. Generated ~$20K under 3 years. Discontinued in 2019. |
6 | 2016 | Micro-blog to help bloggers with troubleshooting their websites. | Failed: Built-in 3 months but never completed fully. So never released and the content became outdated. |
7 | 2016 | Domain & Hosting Reseller | Failed: Build in 2 months. Too much competition. Acquired only a few clients. |
8 | 2017 | Themeforest Store (Selling Orator static template) | Failed: Sold only 14 copies of the Orator static template for $126 then it got nulled and listed in many free static site directories. |
9 | 2017 | MojoMarketplace (Fiona Food Blog theme) | Failed: Sold only 15 copies of the blog theme and an additional few hundred from services. |
10 | 2017 | Engigogo - Community curated resources & tools directory | Failed: 3 months of building, PH launch went well but failed to monetize the website. Also, it took too much time to update, so we abandoned it. But the core theme was nicely received as a separate entity and engigogo worked as its demo. |
11 | 2017 | Entertainment Blog (part of viral blogging experiment) | Failed: Quickly attracted readers from social media but failed to monetize. |
12 | 2017 | Eposo - Content curation wordpress theme | Meh: Monetized the Engigogo WP theme as Eposo. Generated $3.8K from direct sales and $8K from services. |
13 | 2018 | Themes For App - Free static themes for micropreneurs | Meh: It became the #2 product of the day on PH, and went viral, acquired thousands of subscribers but realized it was not monetizable with current offering. |
14 | 2018 | DesignThingy - Development Studio | Success: Earning since day-1. Earned $40K+. Still Active. |
15 | 2018 | A Newsletter plugin for wordpress | Failed: Started building but abandoned midway due to facing fierce competition from newly launched newsletter software with better features. We became doubtful about the product success. |
16 | 2019 | Lifestyle Gutenburg blog theme | Failed: Took 1 month to build but only sold a few copies. |
17 | 2019 | Startup Studio (Peachblack Technologies Private Limited) | Failed: A separate entity from DesignThingy to help entrepreneurs with MVP development. Converted multiple clients even before launch but closed its doors soon due to the pandemic. The timing was extremely wrong. Later pivoted into a personal holding company. In Oct-2022 we filed for a strike-off. |
18 | 2020 | WordPress Theme + Hosting solution | Failed: Build in a weekend. Not many people were interested as their is only a few theme options. |
19 | 2020 | Widgetstack - Special purpose micro-plugins | Validating: Launched with 2 plugins that we already had as undelivered client projects. Helped us to recovered the development cost. |
20 | 2020 | Intraday trading dashboard to show profits/loss and other charges (Web App) | Paused: The initial prototype was built on ReactJS and we're using it internally. Also shared it with some friends. Facing issues with the API License cost. |
21 | 2020 | Product listing and affiliate marketing plugin - Etta | Paused: Sold a dozen copies of the MVP and collected feedback. Scheduled to develop the beta-version in early 2024. |
22 | 2021 | Newsletter for Micropreneurs | Validating: Growing in terms of subscribers, still figuring out strategy/monetization |
23 | 2021 | On-demand FrontEnd troubleshooting as a service | Failed: Low retention and Poor product-market fit. Discontinued. |
24 | 2022 | Bootstrap template with JSON as DB to create gallery websites | Failed: We built it for marketing purposes and then also released it as stand-alone product. |
25 | 2023 | Personal Productivity App | Validating: Currently in private testing and validating |
26 | 2023 | SketchyCraft - Tools for creative people | Validating: Currently building and validating |
27 | 2023 | WP Nakama - Management software for WordPress | Validating: Currently building and validating |
28 | 2024 | Product Management Software for Micropreneurs | Validating: Currently in prototyping stage |