How Tough Is Plugin Biz?

Mutt · 02-11-2003

i know nobody likes to come out and say 'we cant sell our plugin' cuz it makes you look to be a failure but thought i would ask people in general.

I peek in on a whole lotta members areas lately, found a BIG password list. Looked to me like same old plugins from years ago, most i saw were the same ones over and over, Holio and Webmaster Paradise. So i'm always seeing people coming out with new feeds and I didn't see much evidence of them in most members areas. David Lace has some of the best teen content around, he came out with leased plugins, I think i've seen it on ONE site. California Pimp plugin - my favorite Net porn guy and
never seen it in any members area.

So I'm thinking even if you have great quality content it's a tough sell. Seems like people are now falling into two camps - people who have decided that content isn't worth the investment and they just run crap (i.e. Babenet and many other affilliate programs) and then the other guys who are going the exclusive content route with reality video sites and other types of custom content. WantonGirls does great, there are lots of guys making some big investments in their own content, only problem is that there aren't enough models to please everybody.

So I don't know where the plugins fit in for the future, one hand you have webmasters who just wont pay for quality, the other hand you have all the custom guys who shoot for themselves or buy exclusive. Plugin guys caught in no man's land?

whachoo think?

02-11-2003	#1
Mutt Members Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 1,087	i know nobody likes to come out and say 'we cant sell our plugin' cuz it makes you look to be a failure but thought i would ask people in general. I peek in on a whole lotta members areas lately, found a BIG password list. Looked to me like same old plugins from years ago, most i saw were the same ones over and over, Holio and Webmaster Paradise. So i'm always seeing people coming out with new feeds and I didn't see much evidence of them in most members areas. David Lace has some of the best teen content around, he came out with leased plugins, I think i've seen it on ONE site. California Pimp plugin - my favorite Net porn guy and never seen it in any members area. So I'm thinking even if you have great quality content it's a tough sell. Seems like people are now falling into two camps - people who have decided that content isn't worth the investment and they just run crap (i.e. Babenet and many other affilliate programs) and then the other guys who are going the exclusive content route with reality video sites and other types of custom content. WantonGirls does great, there are lots of guys making some big investments in their own content, only problem is that there aren't enough models to please everybody. So I don't know where the plugins fit in for the future, one hand you have webmasters who just wont pay for quality, the other hand you have all the custom guys who shoot for themselves or buy exclusive. Plugin guys caught in no man's land? whachoo think?