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Author here :) nice surprise seeing the blog post here. Happy to answer any questions y’all may have. It’s been a nice feeling finally having an a product tha

Author here :) nice surprise seeing the blog post here. Happy to answer any questions y’all may have. It’s been a nice feeling finally having an a product that makes some decent revenue!

azhenley 5y ago
Would be curious to see the uptick you get from being on HN again!
- CoffeePython 5y ago
  It drove $600 in sales for vim and 5 free trial signups for Slip :) Pretty happy with it, especially since I didn’t even post the HN article
tmhrtly 5y ago
cute product! BTW I'm not 100% sure on the "I missed out on an additional ~$1200 in revenue" claim you make though - increasing the price would probably have dropped some users off who would pay $15 but not $25. I'd still guess you left a bit of cash on the table but not the full sum.
- CoffeePython 5y ago
  Yeah that’s potentially true. When I raised the price, the conversion rate stayed pretty much exactly the same though.
RhodoGSA 5y ago
Love the follow up on the success of Vim.so with Slip. Slip looks great! One thing I would suggest creating as a marketing tool is interactive guides on books that don't have alot of excersices or are more 'text-booky'. Like a no fear shakespear for some technical book. One of the things that made me think of this is my current rabbithole that is learning the rust programming language. There are generally two answers when you ask someone how to learn rust, "Learn C++ and read The Book, or read The Book". "The Book" is dense... but i found this program called "Rustlings" that makes the experience much more enjoyable. Rustlings is essentially a list of exercises, tests and quizzes attached onto the rust book and some of the documentation. With Slip, you could be the genius.com of open source technical books on top of courses. More detailed explanations, quizzes, courses, etc. Also, Another field that needs to be disrupted is paid webinars. There's alot of people who give talks on topics and get paid per attendee. If you could centralize that, i'm sure it'd be a good business to get into. I have a friend who gives webinars on certain topics and he uses onlyfans lol.
- samstave 5y ago
  >*Also, Another field that needs to be disrupted is paid webinars. There's alot of people who give talks on topics and get paid per attendee. If you could centralize that, i'm sure it'd be a good business to get into. I have a friend who gives webinars on certain topics and he uses onlyfans lol.* This one is money.
- CoffeePython 5y ago
  Love this idea! Thanks for sharing! I’ll seriously look into it
  - RhodoGSA 5y ago
    Most courses online have terrible completion rates but the point is education. No other platform incentives for that KPI. I have no idea how you'd do this besides Maybe Live courses, or somehow creating a social-dynamic between creator and consumer. This would be an invaluable vibe to cultivate to increase completion. Continuing to just throw ideas out, maybe you could give a % refund if you actually complete the course, or you earn back as you complete the challenges.
robertlagrant 5y ago
I can imagine it's an awesome feeling - congratulations! As a developer, it'd be great to hear from you (or someone similar who's reading this) about the business side of how you got started. How do you set all that up? Any gotchas?
miccah 5y ago
Congratulations, Slip looks awesome as well! I see only 5 languages are supported right now. Do you have any plans on adding more?
- CoffeePython 5y ago
  Yeah I plan on adding pretty much all the major popular languages. As well as support for things like Jupyter Notebooks and React

Author here :) nice surprise seeing the blog post here. Happy to answer any questions y’all may have. It’s been a nice feeling finally having an a product that makes some decent revenue!

azhenley 5y ago

Would be curious to see the uptick you get from being on HN again!

CoffeePython 5y ago
It drove $600 in sales for vim and 5 free trial signups for Slip :) Pretty happy with it, especially since I didn’t even post the HN article

tmhrtly 5y ago

cute product! BTW I'm not 100% sure on the "I missed out on an additional ~$1200 in revenue" claim you make though - increasing the price would probably have dropped some users off who would pay $15 but not $25. I'd still guess you left a bit of cash on the table but not the full sum.

CoffeePython 5y ago
Yeah that’s potentially true. When I raised the price, the conversion rate stayed pretty much exactly the same though.

RhodoGSA 5y ago

Love the follow up on the success of Vim.so with Slip. Slip looks great! One thing I would suggest creating as a marketing tool is interactive guides on books that don't have alot of excersices or are more 'text-booky'. Like a no fear shakespear for some technical book. One of the things that made me think of this is my current rabbithole that is learning the rust programming language. There are generally two answers when you ask someone how to learn rust, "Learn C++ and read The Book, or read The Book". "The Book" is dense... but i found this program called "Rustlings" that makes the experience much more enjoyable. Rustlings is essentially a list of exercises, tests and quizzes attached onto the rust book and some of the documentation. With Slip, you could be the genius.com of open source technical books on top of courses. More detailed explanations, quizzes, courses, etc. Also, Another field that needs to be disrupted is paid webinars. There's alot of people who give talks on topics and get paid per attendee. If you could centralize that, i'm sure it'd be a good business to get into. I have a friend who gives webinars on certain topics and he uses onlyfans lol.

samstave 5y ago
>*Also, Another field that needs to be disrupted is paid webinars. There's alot of people who give talks on topics and get paid per attendee. If you could centralize that, i'm sure it'd be a good business to get into. I have a friend who gives webinars on certain topics and he uses onlyfans lol.* This one is money.
CoffeePython 5y ago
Love this idea! Thanks for sharing! I’ll seriously look into it
- RhodoGSA 5y ago
  Most courses online have terrible completion rates but the point is education. No other platform incentives for that KPI. I have no idea how you'd do this besides Maybe Live courses, or somehow creating a social-dynamic between creator and consumer. This would be an invaluable vibe to cultivate to increase completion. Continuing to just throw ideas out, maybe you could give a % refund if you actually complete the course, or you earn back as you complete the challenges.

robertlagrant 5y ago

I can imagine it's an awesome feeling - congratulations! As a developer, it'd be great to hear from you (or someone similar who's reading this) about the business side of how you got started. How do you set all that up? Any gotchas?

miccah 5y ago

Congratulations, Slip looks awesome as well! I see only 5 languages are supported right now. Do you have any plans on adding more?

CoffeePython 5y ago
Yeah I plan on adding pretty much all the major popular languages. As well as support for things like Jupyter Notebooks and React