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I Make $150K/Month From 20 Apps

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Katie Keith shares how she built a portfolio of 20 WordPress plugins and apps that collectively generate $1.8 million annually through a multi-product strategy. Rather than betting everything on a single product, Keith emphasizes organic idea generation from user feedback, cross-selling between related products, and the importance of shipping quickly—demonstrating how AI and modern tools make managing multiple software products more feasible than ever before.

Key takeaways
  • Start with one strong product in a familiar area, then let customer feedback and feature requests naturally inspire additional product ideas rather than pre-planning multiple launches.
  • Cross-promotion between related products is a key revenue multiplier—use email campaigns, in-app banners, bundle offers, and post-purchase discounts to sell complementary plugins to existing customers.
  • Most customer acquisition comes from organic search and SEO content; publish genuinely helpful tutorials and blog posts around your product's use case to rank highly and attract initial customers.
  • Build products with overlapping markets so you can leverage the same customer base; a portfolio strategy only works when products serve related needs rather than disparate audiences.
  • Launch sequentially, not simultaneously—give each product dedicated time for marketing and user feedback refinement rather than spreading resources too thin across multiple launches.
  • The modern tech stack for managing a multi-product business includes project management, automation, and e-commerce tools to handle licensing, delivery, and cross-selling at scale.

Recommendations (4)

ClickUp
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"We are leaning very heavily on ClickUp these days. We use it for project management, time tracking, company chat."

Katie Keith · ▶ 12:32

Zapier
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"We use Zapier a lot for automations."

Katie Keith · ▶ 12:45

WordPress
WordPress uses

"We use WordPress obviously for our company website. And we also use lots of WordPress plugins."

Katie Keith · ▶ 12:47

Easy Digital Downloads

"Easy Digital Downloads, which is the e-commerce software that we use to sell our plugins and sort out all the licensing and the download delivery and so on, which cost us about $300 a year."

Katie Keith · ▶ 12:55

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