[josephjrobison]

Congrats! Even for a freelance developer in the US, this is significant money, and doesn’t require directly trading time for money.

And the most important thing is that you’ve built a solid foundation to improve upon. Most people can’t ship as much as you have, and most don’t have the foresight to write a blog post about it.

I’ve started to notice similar things on the economics of themes and plugins on Themeforest. Unless you’re a top selling theme/plugin the revenues don’t often provide enough to encourage updates. I’ve had a few themes I bought go not-updated for years, so I have to switch to more popular and robust themes that I know will be supported.

[maxko]

Thanks for your feedback! I totally agree with you regarding the issue with non-top selling items - most of them have never been updated, so it's like a playing in lottery.