Free. No login. Build a plugin, drown in tickets, sell to private equity, do it again until you own the market.
If you ship WordPress plugins, it will hurt in exactly the right way.
👉 pressword.games/?utm_source=x&…
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Daniel Iser
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Daniel Iser
@daniel_iser
Founder & Lead Engineer @code_atlantic. Our software has powered 31.5B+ interactions across 700K+ websites. Building WordPress plugins, developer tools & SaaS.
East Palatka, Florida Katılım Mayıs 2013
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And my proudest number of the week:
59 popups shown on Mars 🔴 — an end-game feature that ~1 in 10 players has already ground their way to in a week.
NASA's lawyers are drafting something. Elon Musk said Colonization wasn't delayed. Conversion rates, unaffected. The players are unbothered.
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A week ago I turned every WordPress plugin founder's daily trauma into a clicker game.
Since then people have clicked "Write Code" 323,810 times — about 45 hours of pure manual grinding — from 51 countries.
The stats got out of hand. A thread 🧵
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@RankingsWp it won’t let you claim without matching email. We have lots of plugin sites that we don’t maintain dedicated emails for. We use our actual company email.
Please advise
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Be like Jason. 👑
Play, hit a number worth bragging about, share your card, dare your feed to beat it. That's the whole game.
(129M is a real flex, btw — he's near the top of the board.) 🏆
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Jason Coleman 🤔💡💻💾@jason_coleman
I hit 129M active installs in Install Clicker — think you can beat that? pressword.games/s/famZia9?utm_…
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Daniel Iser retweetledi
I hit 129M active installs in Install Clicker — think you can beat that? pressword.games/s/famZia9?utm_…
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@KatieKeithBarn2 @FriendlyWebGuy @KatieKeithBarn2 Not exaggerating — your share sent 108 people straight into the game (real players, not just impressions). Whole thing's at 577 visitors and 300 sessions now, 322K clicks logged and 101 plugins "sold to Epic Motive." You've earned pricing power. 💸
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@FriendlyWebGuy Glad it helped. @daniel_iser said that me sharing his WordPress plugin business game got a surprisingly high number of people playing it too. I'll have to start charging (and so will you) 😆
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This shows the power of social media. Katie's post yesterday drove a large amount of interest to my little service and I was wowed.
As its currently in beta this was a good load test with a wide variety of sites in different conditions, and there were a number of performance tweaks made during the day after a couple of longer running jobs blocked others.
Any job submitted yesterday but hasn't yet run will do so in order today, followed by the new ones that have started arriving last night / this morning.
Katie Keith@KatieKeithBarn2
Thanks to @FriendlyWebGuy for sending me a free audit from website-toolkit.co.uk. I put the results into Claude which quickly fixed 1,300 issues across the Barn2 and documentlibrary.pro sites, including 2 sitewide template bugs we'd never have spotted (duplicate H1s on ~850 docs pages and broken or missing meta descriptions on 253 category pages 🤦♀️), plus 175+ broken links. Dave's Website Toolkit coupled with AI to make the fixes is a HUGE time-saver compared to doing things the old way 🚀
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Daniel Iser retweetledi
Amazing Plugin Business Simulator 😂
If you want to enter the ring, give it a try first
Katie Keith@KatieKeithBarn2
This game is a humorous and accurate look at the reality of running a plugin business by @daniel_iser of @wppopupmaker. The best bit is the support tickets that pop up in the bottom right 😂 Get on the leaderboard - but the ultimate goal is to be acquired by Epic Motive 🦾 To play, click "Write code" until things start happening. After a while, your plugin business runs without you. pressword.games/s/rKCyGJm?utm_…
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Super cool. I’m #3, but my first-place run accused me of clickbotting. Still, very well done. I enjoyed it.
Daniel Iser@daniel_iser
Every WordPress plugin dev knows the arc: 5-star dreams, 1-star reality, a support queue that never empties, and one acquisition offer that feels like escape. So I built it into a game. Ship versions, survive the tickets, sell out to private equity, prestige, repeat. Leaderboard's live and a few WP folks are already climbing it. Here's my run — come take a swing 👇 pressword.games/s/6WrYXzw?utm_…
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@jonschr Already cleared the flagged score. Your back in the runnings. Bit overzealous anti cheat it seemed.
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Every WordPress plugin dev knows the arc: 5-star dreams, 1-star reality, a support queue that never empties, and one acquisition offer that feels like escape.
So I built it into a game. Ship versions, survive the tickets, sell out to private equity, prestige, repeat.
Leaderboard's live and a few WP folks are already climbing it. Here's my run — come take a swing 👇
pressword.games/s/6WrYXzw?utm_…
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@Dan0sz @KatieKeithBarn2 @wppopupmaker PS it never really ends ;p. This is mine from early game dev that never stopped running. Just excluded myself from leaderboards.
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@Dan0sz Ha, good catch — that "no further growth" screen is old wording that makes it look like the end. It isn't! Selling to Epic Motive and restarting is the game: boosters carry over, run two flies. Just patched it.
32 Founder Points though 👀 — but is there a popup on Mars yet? 🪐 Screenshot that run for your audience and let's see who beats you.
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This game is a humorous and accurate look at the reality of running a plugin business by @daniel_iser of @wppopupmaker. The best bit is the support tickets that pop up in the bottom right 😂
Get on the leaderboard - but the ultimate goal is to be acquired by Epic Motive 🦾
To play, click "Write code" until things start happening. After a while, your plugin business runs without you.
pressword.games/s/rKCyGJm?utm_…
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Daniel Iser retweetledi
@KatieKeithBarn2 @daniel_iser @wppopupmaker I felt this game. Especially the support ticket titles 🤣
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@KatieKeithBarn2 @daniel_iser @wppopupmaker Daniel captured the reality of the WordPress plugin ecosystem perfectly. Balancing product development with a continuous stream of support tickets remains a genuine challenge for any plugin founder.
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@dipakcgajjar @KatieKeithBarn2 @wppopupmaker Thanks @dipakcgajjar 🙏 The support queue is the one thing in WordPress nobody can performance-optimize.
Get your empire on the leaderboard — sign in (top right, one email, no password) and post a score. Let's see how a speed expert scales: pressword.games/games/install-…
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When the person who's actually built plugin businesses says the support tickets are accurate… that's the five-star review that matters 😅
Thank you Katie! And yes — getting acquired by Epic Motive is winning. They've promised nothing will change. 🤝
She's on the leaderboard already. Dethrone her: pressword.games/games/install-…
Katie Keith@KatieKeithBarn2
This game is a humorous and accurate look at the reality of running a plugin business by @daniel_iser of @wppopupmaker. The best bit is the support tickets that pop up in the bottom right 😂 Get on the leaderboard - but the ultimate goal is to be acquired by Epic Motive 🦾 To play, click "Write code" until things start happening. After a while, your plugin business runs without you. pressword.games/s/rKCyGJm?utm_…
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