Gmail Plugin

3 Gmail Plugin Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: October 10th, 2024

Ever thought about enhancing your Gmail experience? A Gmail plugin might just be the business for you.

A Gmail plugin is a tool that integrates into the Gmail interface, offering added functionalities such as advanced email tracking, automated responses, or enhanced organizational tools. Imagine a feature that streamlines your email management, making every interaction more efficient.

Your role would involve identifying pain points and creating a plugin that addresses those needs, potentially saving users time and hassle. There's a growing market for productivity tools, and with the right development skills or team, you could tap into this demand.

Start by studying existing plugins, then leverage your insights to offer a unique, useful addition to Gmail. This idea has the potential to transform how people use email, making their day a bit smoother and your business prospects brighter.

In this list, you'll find real-world gmail plugin success stories and very profitable examples of starting a gmail plugin that makes money.

1. GMass, Inc. ($5.4M/year)

During his previous business venture, Wordzen, the founder recognized the necessity of sending personalized emails to small groups. After researching available options, he was not satisfied with the solutions offered. Therefore, he developed GMass as an internal tool to aid in managing his business. Although Wordzen failed to gain much traction, GMass proved to be successful and was featured on Product Hunt, giving him the validation that he needed to make the decision to pursue this as a business.

How much money it makes: $5.4M/year
How many people on the team: 1

How I Launched A $200K/Month Gmail Mail Merge Tool

GMass, an email marketing platform that allows users to send cold emails and email marketing campaigns with Gmail, has attracted over 500,000 user signups, including major tech companies like Uber, LinkedIn, and Google, and now generates over $200K in monthly recurring revenue through a successful content marketing strategy and focused ad spend.

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2. Mailman ($360K/year)

This founder has built 25+ side projects. Most of them failed but a few brought in some revenue. After failing small and big over two dozen times, he had one product that investors wanted to invest money in, and after five years of growing it, sold it, and took some time off from making stuff. He started advising and investing in startups, especially crypto startups.

To find time from all the chaos happening in his inbox, he wrote a small script that would make sure that emails landed in his inbox only every four hours, in batches. Nothing comes in between. He used this script to find time to find good ideas that he could be building next.

That’s when he saw a tweet from Andrew Wilkinson (Dribble owner), and he immediately emailed him with the script and a video tutorial. His reply was, “What if we make this into a business?”

How much money it makes: $360K/year
How much did it cost to start: $30K
How many people on the team: 5

We Built A $360K/Year Gmail Plugin That Helps People Manage Their Inbox

Mailman, a tool that allows users to control when and what emails should land in their inbox, is a year-old company bringing in approximately $30k in MRR, while its upcoming features will improve users’ newsletter-reading experience and automate redundant tasks.

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3. Baxter Inc. ($12K/year)

The founder was having a tough time managing his Gmail inbox when he came up with the idea of a dashboard. He then interviewed dozens of regular American adults to see if the idea was appealing. Soon, he found out that the majority of people preferred a simple tool rather than a dashboard. This motivated him to build Baxter.

How much money it makes: $12K/year
How much did it cost to start: $50K
How many people on the team: 1

How A Non-Technical Founder Started A Profitable Chrome Extension For Gmail

A case study on the founder of Baxter, a browser extension that helps Gmail users organize their inboxes by unsubscribing from newsletters, deleting unneeded emails, and automatically labeling and organizing emails, which generated over $1,000 in monthly recurring revenue in just nine months and successfully acquired an existing Gmail Unsubscribe extension to drive organic user growth.

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