Unfortunately I have zero insight about how many people spent their own money vs used their company budget to buy this.
I should definitely do a better job by creating a template and allowing people to use that to convince their bosses. This site is a good example of that: product-toolkit.com
Your post gave an interesting idea - a gallery of products that people can buy to spend their budgets in case they don't have ideas lol
It definitely took a lot of work not only from me, but also from many different open source contributors to get to this point. We are now at 164 themes which is absolutely crazy!
I'm so happy to hear you got to the checkout process. Thanks a lot for the support ;D
That's so nice! I agree with you that having to figure out each individual config is a LOT of work. There's also a high cognitive cost on switching context all the time, that's when a standardize work environment makes the most difference.
This is a SUPER important topic. I don't think Dracula Pro would be as successful if it was a subscription. There's definitely a subscription fatigue going on, and people who invest on one-time purchase models will be able to benefit from that
Same thing happened with me. I built this theme as an open source project and forgot it existed. People started to create different forks and port them to different platforms. One day I realized how big that was and decided to monetize. One year later 100k. Crazy!
This looks great!!