I run a business on Wordpress, and $29 is nothing. This is pretty much instant purchase territory.

Edit: it looks like the price was higher than $40 before. That’s still insta-purchase. OP, the parent commentor isn’t your audience.

Yeah, it was 45 or 49 last night. Agreed – as a one-time purchase, in the "lol are you kidding we spend that on lacroix before lunch" territory for marketing depts.

Doesn't seem out-of-line given that it is one-off. There's enough people that use Wordpress professionally and are willing to pay for stuff.

Price seems alright to me. That's typical for a one-off Wordpress plugin, especially those targeting non-technical admins.

Yes, but, how non-technical are people who rather write in Markdown than in WYSIWYG?

Non-technical enough that they can't develop or debug a solution themselves. There's a large-ish category of Wordpress user who can basic PHP to tweak a template if they have to and do basic admin tasks, but not much more and rather not waste time on things like that, are first-and-foremost writers and want a writing workflow that's nicer than the WYSIWYG editor in the WP backend.

Is it? How many hours for you to set up something similar, and then what do you get paid per hour?

It's rather stupid to compare this to an hourly pay because it's all automated once it's made.

Over $40 for something that just converts is a pretty large amount. I get there are other features of the plan, but having no alternative plans is just ... There is no way to even test it. I also just noticed the price went down to $29 now, which is more reasonable, but even so I'd argue there should be alternative plans that maybe doesn't include the full support etc. I'd assume most people won't need to take advantage of that.

I could probably setup something similar in a couple of hours, I mean there's no magic done here.

Parsing markdown is easy and I already have that as a part of my web-framework.

See: https://github.com/DiamondMVC/Diamond/tree/master/markdown

> Parsing markdown is easy

You might not be the target audience. Regardless how many open source libraries or even products exist, there will be a market for users who prefer a single-click install with support.

He asked how long it would take me to make something similar and I answered. I don't see what that has to do with "target audience".

Ship it and sell it for $15!