How does a one-man company make between $15-30M selling simple Google Docs plugins?
Meet Amit Agarwal and his story of success. 🧵👇
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1. Amit Agarwal is a one-man company:
Living in India who makes between 15 and 30 million dollars selling simple plugins for Google Docs and Google Drive.
He graduated from IIT, and moved back to his hometown in 2004, where he started off as a tech blogger.
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2. He created a Gmail plugin:
That plugin allowed people to do mail merges, meaning that people could send the same message to a large group of people while still customizing individual components for each message.
His main mail merge has been downloaded 7.5 million times.
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3. He has 13 more plugins:
Including a document management app called document studio (which makes $79 a year from 6 million downloads), a notification app ($49 a year from 10 million downloads), a YouTube app (8 million downloads)
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4. He promotes his apps:
By writing how-to guides on his website, Digital Inspiration, and by tweeting about his products, which has seen hundreds of thousands of views.
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5. He also creates custom G Suite apps:
For big companies, such as Airbus, LinkedIn, Disney, and even the US Embassy.
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TD;LR
1. Amit Agarwal started as tech blogger in 2004
2. Created Mail Merge plugin; 7.5M downloads, 5% conversion to paid.
3. Developed 13 more plugins: Document Studio (6M downloads, $79/yr), Notification App (10M DL).
4. Creates custom G Suite apps for Airbus, LinkedIn.
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@tarasowski
He started his journey when most of Indian households couldn’t afford telephones and computers were distant dream. He is considered father of Indian blogging.
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@tarasowski
Amit is the OG blogger of the Indian tech ecosystem. His success with plugins came later.. His blog was very popular that'perhaps started it all
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@KartikRaichura
Never heard of this guy, just knew the plugin he has created. I find the story very inspiring and fits the
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smallbets concept very well.
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@tarasowski
That's why I told people that simple add-ons and extensions are highly underrated.
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