Envato - is the game worth the candle?

Question

Freelance

Colleagues, good afternoon! I have been following Envato
for a long time . As you can imagine, she is especially interested in a theme market called ThemeForest , where there are WordPress themes and a CodeCanyon script market, where you can also sell WordPress plugins . 28 sellers have already become dollar millionaires: elite.envato.com/wall-of-fame Author registration page: themeforest.net/make_money/become_an_author The company's initial "tax" is 50% of the sale of a theme or plugin. There are many, of course, but there is a ready-made market of 1.5 million people (it is clear that for each particular bed it is smaller, but still).



If you sell for $75,000, then the percentage will increase in steps to 70%.
Questions to those who published their work in these markets and were involved in the sale:
1. How promising is this business?
2. What are the pros and cons?
3. How long did you wait for the first profit?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The money is real. The downside is that there the reception of the project is based on the design and you can get hard rejects for some unknown reason for a very long time.

Answer 3

It's easier to break into the App Store with a simple app and at a lower cost. I speak as someone who made $5000+ on Envato and spent ~3000 on ads. Now a programmer is writing an app, and I’m throwing media about him and the income is much more real than Envato’s barker about millions. And the most realistic way is to outsource freelancing to other freelancers, putting together a team and creating a web studio with shares.
Don't stuff hard bloody bumps when you can get by with less blood(

Answer 4

Now envato has become very difficult to break through.
Constant failures, the product does not match the quality and that's it.
No explanation for what exactly is wrong.
I can't add a product to envato.
Although there were no problems at all with the addition of my first product a few years ago, they added it on the first try and very quickly.
Now, whatever I do, they do not approve and that's it.
At the same time, in my category, a bunch of mediocre products are added and added, how they pass moderation is a mystery.
In one category alone, there are 12 identical products from 1 author, i.е. the color changes a little, the name - and forward.
How this author passes moderation is a mystery, but surprisingly, it always passes moderation.
I, with my unfortunate goods, on which years have gone, cannot climb in any way.
Maybe you'll get lucky, because there is no more hope, hope is only for luck / no luck :)

Answer 5

not 50%, but 30% like. Make yourself an exclusive author or evanto really help with sales? Whether or not your business is worth it, it is worth it if you can do everything yourself, both design and layout. In the end, you are unlikely to reach 75 thousand bucks. Yes, and if you are an exclusive author, the percentage does not increase in any way