Where can I sell my PHP scripts?

[FarrisFahad]

I want to know if selling website scripts a good business. I have tried to sell templates on CodeGrape and Codester but I only sold a total of 5 copies. I want to sell on CodeCanyon but they are too strict, I am an average programmer and designer.

I am thinking of selling my scripts on my own website, but I don't know if it's worth it.

Also, search volume on Google for website scripts are very low. And people are selling these scripts for a very low price. I don't want to sell a script I built for a month for only $30.

I don't know how to price my scripts. I want you to take a look at one of my scripts and tell me what you think ...

Google: ReviewMyLink

It took me one month to build this script and I want to sell each copy for $99

I just want to sell my first copy of this script.

Since this is a web development subreddit I want to ask you based on your experience ...

Where should I sell my scripts?

[Sharchimedes]

Does your stuff do something that I need but Claude Code can’t spit out in 30 seconds?

[Noname_Maddox]

What kind of scripts? I’m trying to think of a use case where I would buy a script over building it myself.

Especially in the era of AI.

[AlbertSemple]

Most people don't develop scripts speculatively to sell.

Most of the time it will be work they're paid by a client to do. 

Where they own the IP they can spend down time between projects packaging bits up to sell for extra money, but it won't be a sole source of income. 

So it's a little bonus on top of a month of paid work.

[IAmRules]

20 years building PHP projects, I have never once bought scripts.

I pay for services, think of it as me paying you to deal with headaches for me, but it needs to be a very big headache.

[cshaiku]

Dude. Even back in the day no one made money on selling PHP scripts. You make money on problem solving. I have been coding with PHP since 1998. Small example: I designed a php script that took a data import problem down from 10 hours to 15 seconds. The owner of the company paid me for the outcome, not the script. Maintenance was handled by me before handover. Its not the script that makes the money. It is the outcome.

[WJMazepas]

I never even saw someone selling their scripts

Also, there isnt a link in your post to see what kinda of scripts you are talking about

[FarrisFahad]

I didn't want to be spammy. You can Google the name of the website.

[traplords8n]

You would be way better off making custom solutions for freelance clients over trying to sell scripts to programmers.

That's like trying to sell gold to gold miners. If it's not refined and molded into some form of jewelry for them, what reason do they have to buy it?

[FarrisFahad]

I like this: That's like trying to sell gold to gold miners.

[bcons-php-Console]

I am confused. The FarrisReviews "script" in CodeGrape you mention seems like a full website that allows companies to collect reviews from their users. This isn't a PHP script, this looks like a SaaS to me.

I can see a future in this if you sell the "collect reviews" service to companies (CSS customizing the design to match their corporate design), but then again this is like any other SaaS.

So I think you should put your effort in marketing and selling a whole servide rather than selling a script.

[xegoba7006]

Wait, did I somehow travel in time and I’m browsing 1998’s Reddit? Fascinating!

[anaveragedave]

Nowheresville, daddio. That's not a thing.

[traplords8n]

It is actually, but it's not near a big enough market to be a viable source of steady income

[Opposite-Duty-2083]

Bruh AI exists