Seth Schultz

I'd have to look at the numbers, but, uh, I don't know off the top of my head.

I think we have about what, 10,000 events, smart users that are paying monthly, you know, and they're paying, they're paying anywhere from $5 up to, you know, a hundred dollars a month or something like that.

So I launched the plugin in 2009, about April of 2009.

After that, I just... Well, wait, Seth, hold on.

So yeah, my wife was a scrapbooker.

She taught scrapbooking classes and crafting classes.

And basically people would RSVP via email and then they wouldn't show up and they wouldn't bring their payment for the class.

So she needed a simple, inexpensive system to sell tickets.

And I was looking at Eventbrite, but

the cost ratio and the return on investment would have been really low.

And so I decided to try to find something within the WordPress sphere.

At the time, there was only 5,000 plugins total in the entire WordPress market space.

And so I decided to find something that would kind of get me there.

I found a simple RSVP plugin, but it didn't have any payment features or anything like that.

And so I reached out to the developer and I never heard anything back.

I reached out to him about adding payment options and stuff.

Never heard anything back.

So I went ahead and I started adding a couple features here.

I added PayPal payments because my wife wanted to set PayPal.

And so I contacted the developer once again.