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I love the idea of this, and I disagree with others about the price being too high. If you're in the US/Canada/UK and planning to spend even a couple of hours p
by rahimnathwani 4y ago
I love the idea of this, and I disagree with others about the price being too high. If you're in the US/Canada/UK and planning to spend even a couple of hours per month using this to further your skills and career, then the value of your time investment will exceed your cash outlay on the subscription.
That being said, I wonder whether you've considered offering a student discount for bona fide students? You could do this via sites like Unidays or StudentBeans. You can rely on their process for verifying students, instead of just accepting anyone with an edu email address (which are sometimes available to alumni).
I'm sure some of the folks doing online CS degrees at WGU and Georgia Tech would be interested in this.
- sarupbanskota 4y agoOoh, super interesting. Thank you! We weren't aware of Unidays / StudentBeans, indeed sounds like something we should explore. We have organically seen students sign up — so I'm sure a more favorable pricing to them could go a long way.
- avarun 4y agoThere's also SheerID which is what Spotify uses to validate student IDs and is IME better than Unidays.
- karmanyaahm 4y agoFWIW the GitHub student developer pack allows age 13+ (unlike Unidays and StudentBeans) and supports high school students (unlike Unidays)
- dodgerdog05 4y agohow do you rate the online CS degree at WGU?
- thrown_22 4y agoI'll go further and say that a high price is a great way to screen out the worst customers.
- pelagicAustral 4y agoYou mean like a private country club? An elitist software product, yeah, I can definitely see that succeeding...
- thrown_22 4y agoIf you're not making bank as a software developer you're either not a very good one, or you care more about the craft than the money. The first group would give you terrible reviews because they are hopeless in general. The second would give you terrible reviews because you didn't include enough content on cubical type theory. Either way you're better off without them.
- ctvo 4y agoA sub-100 USD per month professional subscription is elitist? Have you worked in any other professional field? Finance, academia, medicine, law, etc. This is certainly not elitist nor overpriced for its value.
- ikiris 4y agoYep, don't want those uppity poors having any assistance to upward mobility my good chap /s
- thrown_22 4y agoYes, exactly like that.
- triceratops 4y agoIt's not really the job of a business to provide upward mobility unless they explicitly make that part of their business model. Everything else being equal you'd rather have customers who pay more money per head than less. They also expect that a lot of their customers will be subsidized by their employers.
- elxr 4y agoHow about genuine customers from lower-income countries?