Software Integration Plugin

7 Tips For Starting A Successful Software Integration Plugin (2024)

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 19th, 2023

Want to start your own software integration plugin? Here are some tips you should know:

Learn more about starting a software integration plugin:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a software integration plugin?
-> Pros and cons of a software integration plugin

Need inspiration?

-> Other software integration plugin success stories
-> Marketing ideas for a software integration plugin
-> Software integration plugin slogans
-> Software integration plugin names

Other resources

-> Profitability of a software integration plugin

We've interviewed thousands of successful founders at Starter Story and asked what advice they would give to entrepreneurs who are just getting started.

Here's the best advice we discovered for starting a software integration plugin:

#1: Jae Jun, founder of Gorilla ROI:

We chatted with with Jae, founder of Gorilla ROI ($41.7K/month). In our interview, Jae says:

If you are building software, get a database engineer to create a robust structure in the beginning. Less pain.

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#2: Jae Jun, founder of Gorilla ROI:

We chatted with with Jae, founder of Gorilla ROI ($41.7K/month). In our interview, Jae says:

Customers are always telling companies what they want, but the majority of companies don’t listen and don’t care because they are so in love with themselves and their idea.

Additionally:

Charge more than you think you are worth. I don’t know about you, but I tend to undermine our service and prices below what we should be charging.

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#3: Katie Keith, founder of Barn2 Plugins:

We chatted with with Katie, founder of Barn2 Plugins ($120K/month). In our interview, Katie says:

Our lifetime plugin sales (since we started in 2016) have passed the $4,500,000 mark.

Additionally:

Whatever the gap in the skill base of your business, filling it will make a huge difference to your growth.

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#4: Andy Cloke, founder of Data Fetcher:

We chatted with with Andy, founder of Data Fetcher ($23K/month). In our interview, Andy says:

Someone could copy the basic functionality of our extension and our marketing with a few months of effort. But it is much harder to copy the hundreds of edge-case bugs we’ve fixed, the five-star reviews, and our relationships with customers and Airtable.

Additionally:

Over the next couple of years I want to hit 1000 customers and $500k in ARR. The aim is to do this whilst keeping the team very lean and getting money out of the business into index funds.