[yarapavan]

This is about Amit Agarwal, goes by the handle labnol, and his Google addons + other apps/utilities listed at https://www.labnol.org/.

The twitter thread makes some assumptions - Amit works alone, 5% of the downloaded users become paid customers.

[f1shy → yarapavan]

As stated in the comments to the twit, 5% is an extremely generous figure. With that prices I really think is orders of magnitude less.

[auslegung → f1shy]

Even if it’s 100x less, that’s still $130,000/year. Subtract taxes, fees, upkeep, etc, and I think an even $100,000 is reasonable. For a person living in India that might be a lot of money, but I don’t know. Even if it isn’t, who among us wouldn’t LOVE $100,000 in at least sorta passive income? The dude is still doing really, really well, kudos

[rickette]

This feels more like spam to me. The guy did zero research an just pulls numbers out of thin air.

[Veuxdo → rickette]

Yeah, when he says "my math" he means "I'm assuming a 5% conversion rate for every app this guy has ever written". Which is insane, if you're wondering.

[netsharc]

Ah, Twitter marketing... do a Fermi approximation of an unknown number and present it as fact. "If you like this [bullshit], subscribe to my newsletter!".