MagicSlides · AI presentation maker
Build your apps as Chrome extensions or Google Workspace add-ons
Common thread across a portfolio that passed $1M in 6 years
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What they did
Every product is either a Chrome extension or a Google Workspace Marketplace add-on (Sheets, Slides, Forms), rather than a standalone product built from scratch, so the platform supplies the users. Examples: Send Simple and SheetAI (Google Sheets), MagicSlides (Google Slides), MagicForm (Google Forms), Blurweb (Chrome extension).
What happened
8 of 30+ products made revenue; portfolio recently crossed $1M total over 6 years. No per-channel split given.
- Stage
- Pre-launch (idea)
“all of my products, literally all of them, you'll find either they are Chrome extension, a Workspace add-on, which is Google Workspace Marketplace. So that was the one clear thing where I was not trying to build everything from scratch, and rather trying to find a platform where I can get.”
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- MagicSlides: Launch lots of small products instead of pushing one that isn't selling30+ launched, 8 made money; $1M total after 6 years
- Sell lifetime deals on AppSumo when you launch$85K+ via AppSumo; early deals matched his salary within 2 days
- Share your product in a Facebook group full of your target usersBrought his first sale
- MagicSlides: Start a separate YouTube channel for each appSheetAI reached $2K+ MRR from YouTube; one MagicForm video hit 145K views
- Film quick phone demos of your apps and post 10 Reels in an hourNo results given
- Put up a pre-order page with a buy button before you build
- MagicForm: After apps for Sheets and Slides, build the same kind of app for FormsLaunched MagicForm; one video on its channel reached 145K views
- Post the app screens you design publicly to start a followingGot very good feedback; started his 'theindianappguy' brand