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GitHub Student Developer Pack

59 points by guessmyname 7y ago

ssivark 7y ago
Practical question: how the heck do people manage subscriptions for personal (not enterprise) use? Do you know all the services you subscribe to, how much you paid(whether the amount reset to a higher number after the introductory offer), whether you’re being auto-billed for something you’ve barely used, etc? Further, have you cancelled subscriptions as a result of such analysis? I wonder how many people would pay a couple of bucks each mont for a no-hassle subscriptions management platform!?
- CarVac 7y ago
  I have a budget system where all recurring income and expenses are averaged out into a daily number that accumulates over time, less any incidental expenses. The part of the spreadsheet that I use to calculate the daily net income has every subscription listed on it. I budget conservatively so in the sheet I "pay" the full rate from the beginning even if I actually have the introductory rate. ...I don't actually have many subscriptions, so there hasn't been anything I've unsubscribed from as a result of this.
- guessmyname 7y ago
  I have a handful of apps that help me keep track of my finances — https://i.imgur.com/M6rzJ6i.png https://i.imgur.com/M6rzJ6i.png One of them —“Chronicle Pro”— does exactly what you asked; the app keeps track of recurring subscriptions. Unfortunately, most of these apps are only available in the Mac App Store, with a few exceptions, but I believe you can find quality software with the same features for Windows and Linux as well if you search the correct keywords online; try mixing the words “banking”, “finances”, “money” and “budget” in this query: “[word] app for windows”. Here is the list of apps I use (in alphabetical order): • https://www.iggsoftware.com/banktivity/ https://www.iggsoftware.com/banktivity/ • https://www.jumsoft.com/money/ https://www.jumsoft.com/money/ • https://moneywell.app/ https://moneywell.app/ • https://chronicleapp.com/ https://chronicleapp.com/ • https://savingsapp.com/ https://savingsapp.com/ • https://hochgatterer.me/finances/macos/ https://hochgatterer.me/finances/macos/
- QuinnWilton 7y ago
  I put all of my subscriptions on single purpose card numbers I generate using www.privacy.com The tool lets me set a total or per month spending limit on each card, which I can use to decline unexpected transactions -- basically either auto billing that kicks in after a trial, or price increases that I never noticed. It also gives me a convenient place to see all of my active subscriptions.
- lallysingh 7y ago
  Some bank/cards let you download statements in csv. Plain text ledger app does the rest.
- kristiandupont 7y ago
  This is something that is on my radar. I am making a "SAAS admin" system for businesses but during my market research, a few people have told me that they would like something like it for themselves as well. I am just not sure what would be a good solution. I could scan your email for known entities or through a browser extension take a look at which sites you go to. Both would be much more problematic in terms of privacy than I would be comfortable with. I suppose another model would be to only keep track of stuff that you manually enter but I doubt that would add enough value for anyone to care?
- scarecrowbob 7y ago
  I pretty much just look at my credit card statement every week or so when I push they "pay it off" button. It's not that hard. I do cancel subs to stuff, but while I have several it's not so hard to analyze that I can't do it while looking at a CC statement.
- dbetteridge 7y ago
  https://www.trackmysubs.com/ https://www.trackmysubs.com/ Is one I know of out of my home town, The irony of a SaaS to track SaaS is not lost on me.
- clintonb 7y ago
  I avoid subscriptions. My household pays for Amazon and Netflix. We have no other recurring services outside of utilities. If I do sign up for a trial, I add a calendar reminder to cancel the service a day before the trial expires.
zachlatta 7y ago
For those who are part of Hack Club (https://hackclub.com https://hackclub.com), we partnered with GitHub to provide speedy access to the Student Developer Pack (48 hrs vs. 2-3 weeks). Redeem at https://hack.af/pack https://hack.af/pack. More on the partnership at https://medium.com/hackclub/github-hack-club-grants-for-your-club-custom-merch-more-f64d6da0d782 https://medium.com/hackclub/github-hack-club-grants-for-your...
duxup 7y ago
I wish there was a way to extend this kind of thing to non traditional students.
- applecrazy 7y ago
  What do you mean?
  - HankB99 7y ago
    Probably someone like me who's old but still keen to learn.
    - AnxietyBytes 7y ago
      Or someone who's trying for self taught
      - crankylinuxuser 7y ago
        For these "student" offerings, only the appearance of credentialism matters. They've never cared about self-taught, at least from all the evidence I've seen.
        jna_sh 7y ago
        The reality is it’s a company giving offerings away for free. Do the people in these companies who care about education wish _everyone_ who needed to learn could have it for free? Of course. But welcome to businesses. The definition of “student” is as it is because it’s a verifiable segment. Self learners are, unfortunately, not.
- chrisseaton 7y ago
  Not sure what you mean? Non-traditional students are eligible like anyone else.
  - 7y ago
sdan 7y ago
Just a heads up: Do NOT use AWS Educate (regardless if you get it from some hackathon or Github). The amount of pain and suffering you have to go through just to get permission to spin up a EC2 instance is unbearable. Compounded with a ton of restrictions and 60-minute sessions, it'll make you unlike AWS real-quick. I would instead suggest to use the $300 GCP credit (since there's no restrictions for that) if you need cloud credits.
- bdcravens 7y ago
  Wouldn't what most people are doing fit underneath the free tier?
  - sdan 7y ago
    So to activate AWS Educate you'll need to do this: 1. Get verified (which even though I had an .edu email took 2 weeks and back and forth convo to do... not to mention that I've been trying for about a year with my HS issued .org email...) 2. You get access to this super weird and sluggish "Learn AWS" portal (by the way, none of this is by AWS, they outsourced to some 3rd party) where they force you to take 5 hours of learning AWS... luckily I found a way to bypass it. 3. Once you get through these portals you end up on this weird "ending page" which I highly recommend bookmarking if you really do decide to use the measly $75 they give. This "ending page" basically gives you the credentials (to use on CLI) and FORCES you to click on this button on the page anytime you want to access AWS. 4. Now that you clicked on this link, you have 60 minutes to do whatever that is under this heavily restricted AWS console... 5. After 60 minutes both your credentials in CLI and in the browser are gone and you'll have to use this "ending page"'s link again to get new credentials for both CLI and browser. I don't have time to explain all of it, but it was really painful to setup. GCP on the other hand just gives you $300 without question (other than credit card/phone number) and allows you to do whatever you want. TLDR: AWS Educate sucks. If you need to play around with cloud stuff, use GCP's $300. OR use AWS's free tier (but then again there are some super weird restrictions.... but I guess it's more bearable than Educate) To answer your question: Probably... just read what you can and cannot do (but stuff like spinning up EC2 instances is fine... its just that you can't connect for more than 60 minutes)
chocolatkey 7y ago
The best value I've gotten out of this pack is the DO credit. 10 months on a 5$ plan for free is a great deal, I recommend it to friends in education
- skinnymuch 7y ago
  Was that a long time ago? I’m pretty sure it expires within 2-3 months now.
  - Alupis 7y ago
    Also if you created an account before, even if you never used it, you'll be prevented from redeeming your student developer credits... Pretty disingenuous to offer free credits to verified students For educational use, but put the stipulation they can't have an existing account. Makes the thinly veiled ploy to lock in "new blood" all that more transparent.
    - ylyn 7y ago
      You can contact support and they'll add it for you.
      - Alupis 7y ago
        They won't... I tried back when I was still a student. It was a pretty awful support experience, including patronizing responses and being accused of just demanding free credits from DO. "It appears that you have already tried out our platform and decided that you did not wish to pay to use it." "I was attempting to introduce you to what I'm faced with here and a bit of a background on why other people have forced my hand toward being skeptical of people's intentions from time to time." "The bottom line is I have people begging for free credits outside of the promotion rules constantly and I wanted you to give me a reason to skate around those rules for you." All this over $50 of credits... cost them a lifetime of recommendations and lost business.
- jldugger 7y ago
hmart 7y ago
Teachers qualify too?
- jna_sh 7y ago
  Teachers don’t qualify, but GitHub Education offer teachers GitHub Pro for their personal account, and GitHub Teams for organisations they use to teach their students. More here: https://help.github.com/en/github/teaching-and-learning-with-github-education/about-github-education-for-educators-and-researchers https://help.github.com/en/github/teaching-and-learning-with... Disclaimer: ex-GitHub, used to work on the education program
  - hmart 7y ago
    Thank you
ptman 7y ago
Also check out https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev . Not just for students

59 points by guessmyname 7y ago

Practical question: how the heck do people manage subscriptions for personal (not enterprise) use? Do you know all the services you subscribe to, how much you paid(whether the amount reset to a higher number after the introductory offer), whether you’re being auto-billed for something you’ve barely used, etc? Further, have you cancelled subscriptions as a result of such analysis? I wonder how many people would pay a couple of bucks each mont for a no-hassle subscriptions management platform!?

CarVac 7y ago
I have a budget system where all recurring income and expenses are averaged out into a daily number that accumulates over time, less any incidental expenses. The part of the spreadsheet that I use to calculate the daily net income has every subscription listed on it. I budget conservatively so in the sheet I "pay" the full rate from the beginning even if I actually have the introductory rate. ...I don't actually have many subscriptions, so there hasn't been anything I've unsubscribed from as a result of this.
guessmyname 7y ago
I have a handful of apps that help me keep track of my finances — https://i.imgur.com/M6rzJ6i.png https://i.imgur.com/M6rzJ6i.png One of them —“Chronicle Pro”— does exactly what you asked; the app keeps track of recurring subscriptions. Unfortunately, most of these apps are only available in the Mac App Store, with a few exceptions, but I believe you can find quality software with the same features for Windows and Linux as well if you search the correct keywords online; try mixing the words “banking”, “finances”, “money” and “budget” in this query: “[word] app for windows”. Here is the list of apps I use (in alphabetical order): • https://www.iggsoftware.com/banktivity/ https://www.iggsoftware.com/banktivity/ • https://www.jumsoft.com/money/ https://www.jumsoft.com/money/ • https://moneywell.app/ https://moneywell.app/ • https://chronicleapp.com/ https://chronicleapp.com/ • https://savingsapp.com/ https://savingsapp.com/ • https://hochgatterer.me/finances/macos/ https://hochgatterer.me/finances/macos/
QuinnWilton 7y ago
I put all of my subscriptions on single purpose card numbers I generate using www.privacy.com The tool lets me set a total or per month spending limit on each card, which I can use to decline unexpected transactions -- basically either auto billing that kicks in after a trial, or price increases that I never noticed. It also gives me a convenient place to see all of my active subscriptions.
lallysingh 7y ago
Some bank/cards let you download statements in csv. Plain text ledger app does the rest.
kristiandupont 7y ago
This is something that is on my radar. I am making a "SAAS admin" system for businesses but during my market research, a few people have told me that they would like something like it for themselves as well. I am just not sure what would be a good solution. I could scan your email for known entities or through a browser extension take a look at which sites you go to. Both would be much more problematic in terms of privacy than I would be comfortable with. I suppose another model would be to only keep track of stuff that you manually enter but I doubt that would add enough value for anyone to care?
scarecrowbob 7y ago
I pretty much just look at my credit card statement every week or so when I push they "pay it off" button. It's not that hard. I do cancel subs to stuff, but while I have several it's not so hard to analyze that I can't do it while looking at a CC statement.
dbetteridge 7y ago
https://www.trackmysubs.com/ https://www.trackmysubs.com/ Is one I know of out of my home town, The irony of a SaaS to track SaaS is not lost on me.
clintonb 7y ago
I avoid subscriptions. My household pays for Amazon and Netflix. We have no other recurring services outside of utilities. If I do sign up for a trial, I add a calendar reminder to cancel the service a day before the trial expires.

zachlatta 7y ago

For those who are part of Hack Club (https://hackclub.com https://hackclub.com), we partnered with GitHub to provide speedy access to the Student Developer Pack (48 hrs vs. 2-3 weeks). Redeem at https://hack.af/pack https://hack.af/pack. More on the partnership at https://medium.com/hackclub/github-hack-club-grants-for-your-club-custom-merch-more-f64d6da0d782 https://medium.com/hackclub/github-hack-club-grants-for-your...

duxup 7y ago

I wish there was a way to extend this kind of thing to non traditional students.

applecrazy 7y ago
What do you mean?
- HankB99 7y ago
  Probably someone like me who's old but still keen to learn.
  - AnxietyBytes 7y ago
    Or someone who's trying for self taught
    - crankylinuxuser 7y ago
      For these "student" offerings, only the appearance of credentialism matters. They've never cared about self-taught, at least from all the evidence I've seen.
      - jna_sh 7y ago
        The reality is it’s a company giving offerings away for free. Do the people in these companies who care about education wish _everyone_ who needed to learn could have it for free? Of course. But welcome to businesses. The definition of “student” is as it is because it’s a verifiable segment. Self learners are, unfortunately, not.
chrisseaton 7y ago
Not sure what you mean? Non-traditional students are eligible like anyone else.
- 7y ago

sdan 7y ago

Just a heads up: Do NOT use AWS Educate (regardless if you get it from some hackathon or Github). The amount of pain and suffering you have to go through just to get permission to spin up a EC2 instance is unbearable. Compounded with a ton of restrictions and 60-minute sessions, it'll make you unlike AWS real-quick. I would instead suggest to use the $300 GCP credit (since there's no restrictions for that) if you need cloud credits.

bdcravens 7y ago
Wouldn't what most people are doing fit underneath the free tier?
- sdan 7y ago
  So to activate AWS Educate you'll need to do this: 1. Get verified (which even though I had an .edu email took 2 weeks and back and forth convo to do... not to mention that I've been trying for about a year with my HS issued .org email...) 2. You get access to this super weird and sluggish "Learn AWS" portal (by the way, none of this is by AWS, they outsourced to some 3rd party) where they force you to take 5 hours of learning AWS... luckily I found a way to bypass it. 3. Once you get through these portals you end up on this weird "ending page" which I highly recommend bookmarking if you really do decide to use the measly $75 they give. This "ending page" basically gives you the credentials (to use on CLI) and FORCES you to click on this button on the page anytime you want to access AWS. 4. Now that you clicked on this link, you have 60 minutes to do whatever that is under this heavily restricted AWS console... 5. After 60 minutes both your credentials in CLI and in the browser are gone and you'll have to use this "ending page"'s link again to get new credentials for both CLI and browser. I don't have time to explain all of it, but it was really painful to setup. GCP on the other hand just gives you $300 without question (other than credit card/phone number) and allows you to do whatever you want. TLDR: AWS Educate sucks. If you need to play around with cloud stuff, use GCP's $300. OR use AWS's free tier (but then again there are some super weird restrictions.... but I guess it's more bearable than Educate) To answer your question: Probably... just read what you can and cannot do (but stuff like spinning up EC2 instances is fine... its just that you can't connect for more than 60 minutes)

chocolatkey 7y ago

The best value I've gotten out of this pack is the DO credit. 10 months on a 5$ plan for free is a great deal, I recommend it to friends in education

skinnymuch 7y ago
Was that a long time ago? I’m pretty sure it expires within 2-3 months now.
- Alupis 7y ago
  Also if you created an account before, even if you never used it, you'll be prevented from redeeming your student developer credits... Pretty disingenuous to offer free credits to verified students For educational use, but put the stipulation they can't have an existing account. Makes the thinly veiled ploy to lock in "new blood" all that more transparent.
  - ylyn 7y ago
    You can contact support and they'll add it for you.
    - Alupis 7y ago
      They won't... I tried back when I was still a student. It was a pretty awful support experience, including patronizing responses and being accused of just demanding free credits from DO. "It appears that you have already tried out our platform and decided that you did not wish to pay to use it." "I was attempting to introduce you to what I'm faced with here and a bit of a background on why other people have forced my hand toward being skeptical of people's intentions from time to time." "The bottom line is I have people begging for free credits outside of the promotion rules constantly and I wanted you to give me a reason to skate around those rules for you." All this over $50 of credits... cost them a lifetime of recommendations and lost business.
jldugger 7y ago

hmart 7y ago

Teachers qualify too?

jna_sh 7y ago
Teachers don’t qualify, but GitHub Education offer teachers GitHub Pro for their personal account, and GitHub Teams for organisations they use to teach their students. More here: https://help.github.com/en/github/teaching-and-learning-with-github-education/about-github-education-for-educators-and-researchers https://help.github.com/en/github/teaching-and-learning-with... Disclaimer: ex-GitHub, used to work on the education program
- hmart 7y ago
  Thank you

ptman 7y ago

Also check out https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev . Not just for students