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Is this BitTorrent course free (as beer)? I can see a neighbour course about HTTP server "free during beta".

gnrlst 3y ago
very much paid
shp0ngle 3y ago
They have some free tier and paid tier and I am not sure what is in what. https://codecrafters.io/pricing https://codecrafters.io/pricing
- orng 3y ago
  Like GP I was also confused and tried looking for a pricing page but failed. Seems like there isn't a link to it from https://app.codecrafters.io/catalog https://app.codecrafters.io/catalog which is the site you go to if you click the big CodeCrafters logo in the top left of the page. There is a "Subscribe" button which takes you to https://app.codecrafters.io/pay https://app.codecrafters.io/pay but I wasn't savvy enough to notice it or realize what it was. Only after starting a course did I begin to suspect that I needed to subscribe since there were a bunch of locks all over. However, it was not clear that the locks actually did anything since I could still click on those links. I guess I would have found out after completing the first step and not being able to progress. This appears to be by design, which strikes me as slightly dishonest.
  - sarupbanskota 3y ago
    Thank you for pointing this out. It's not by design. We actually revised our marketing pages recently, and had a regression that got rid of the tooltip that explained what was free. We have a Linear task for fixing it back, but we weren't expecting this HN post today and so it wasn't the top of our list to fix :) I've prioritised it now tho
  - sarupbanskota 3y ago
    This is fixed btw
opheliate 3y ago
Having done a couple of their courses without paying: You are expected to complete the project in steps they define (so for their Redis project, step 1 is to bind to a port, step 2 is to respond to a PING command, etc). If you choose not to pay, you can only complete one step per day, even if you submit code which would pass future steps. This can be quite frustrating, since each step is often very simple, and IMO discourages producing a well-architected solution which anticipates future requirements, as you're left waiting 24 hours to press the submit button for code you've already written. Still: It's free, and the restricted progress forced me to not use it for procrastination purposes, so there's that.
- linhns 3y ago
  It's better for me this way, having things broken down to piecemeal level like this allow me to avoid overthinking and know when to just produce a solution and accept it.
- Mikhail_Edoshin 3y ago
  Do submissions have deadlines?
  - sarupbanskota 3y ago
    No deadlines!
- sarupbanskota 3y ago
  There's also this repo if you're keen on free resources: github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x
- ryangg 3y ago
  I don't think that option is there anymore. Started the build-your-own-git tutorial and there is a hard paywall after the 3rd stage.

very much paid

They have some free tier and paid tier and I am not sure what is in what. https://codecrafters.io/pricing https://codecrafters.io/pricing

orng 3y ago
Like GP I was also confused and tried looking for a pricing page but failed. Seems like there isn't a link to it from https://app.codecrafters.io/catalog https://app.codecrafters.io/catalog which is the site you go to if you click the big CodeCrafters logo in the top left of the page. There is a "Subscribe" button which takes you to https://app.codecrafters.io/pay https://app.codecrafters.io/pay but I wasn't savvy enough to notice it or realize what it was. Only after starting a course did I begin to suspect that I needed to subscribe since there were a bunch of locks all over. However, it was not clear that the locks actually did anything since I could still click on those links. I guess I would have found out after completing the first step and not being able to progress. This appears to be by design, which strikes me as slightly dishonest.
- sarupbanskota 3y ago
  Thank you for pointing this out. It's not by design. We actually revised our marketing pages recently, and had a regression that got rid of the tooltip that explained what was free. We have a Linear task for fixing it back, but we weren't expecting this HN post today and so it wasn't the top of our list to fix :) I've prioritised it now tho
- sarupbanskota 3y ago
  This is fixed btw

opheliate 3y ago

Having done a couple of their courses without paying: You are expected to complete the project in steps they define (so for their Redis project, step 1 is to bind to a port, step 2 is to respond to a PING command, etc). If you choose not to pay, you can only complete one step per day, even if you submit code which would pass future steps. This can be quite frustrating, since each step is often very simple, and IMO discourages producing a well-architected solution which anticipates future requirements, as you're left waiting 24 hours to press the submit button for code you've already written. Still: It's free, and the restricted progress forced me to not use it for procrastination purposes, so there's that.

linhns 3y ago
It's better for me this way, having things broken down to piecemeal level like this allow me to avoid overthinking and know when to just produce a solution and accept it.
Mikhail_Edoshin 3y ago
Do submissions have deadlines?
- sarupbanskota 3y ago
  No deadlines!
sarupbanskota 3y ago
There's also this repo if you're keen on free resources: github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x
ryangg 3y ago
I don't think that option is there anymore. Started the build-your-own-git tutorial and there is a hard paywall after the 3rd stage.