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Really nice landing page! Curious, how many of these buyers have some sort of corporate backing, ie businesses buying it for their employees? I was very scept
by sireat 10y ago
Really nice landing page!
Curious, how many of these buyers have some sort of corporate backing, ie businesses buying it for their employees?
I was very sceptical at first to see people paying $100+ to learn how refactor their PHP code into functional style.
Then again it sounds realistic enough:
1000 book buyers
1000 "screencast" buyers
500 full package buyers
So there is a market for 2500 PHP developers willing to improve themselves.
It just seems like a $100+ would a be lot to spend to progress beyond something like this article: https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/refactoring-pipelines.html https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/refactoring-pipelines....
EDIT: I mean writing functional map. reduce. filter. style code will be "nicer" looking in many cases, but is there really a financial payoff to refactoring loops?
- charlesdm 10y agoCurious as well how much are corporate sales vs "personal" sales.
- adamwathan 10y agoYeah honestly I was surprised at the success as well, because you're right, it's sort of a niche topic that's hard to tie to some measurable pay off. I can't say for sure what the split was between personal sales and business sales, but based on the customers I've spoken to, I would guess the vast majority were personal sales. If you include folks who purchased it themselves and then asked for reimbursement through their company, I think that would cover every customer save a handful.
- pc86 10y agoI'm just a random programmer but if this was in my wheelhouse I would absolutely buy the full package. I may even buy it to see if it's something that could be applied to my C# brethren :)