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> For the last few months, I've been working on a new educational product teaching coding fundamentals that I'm going to launch in 2025. 96% of people who try t
by philipwhiuk 2y ago
> For the last few months, I've been working on a new educational product teaching coding fundamentals that I'm going to launch in 2025. 96% of people who try to learn coding give up - which I find unacceptable, so I'm aiming to change that.
Feels like you've been kickstarting a competitor/pivot on the side.
- elAhmo 2y agoWith those stats, even with just 4% of people wanting to learn, and just a fraction of them actually paying, that would be dozens of thousands of paying customers. Even at 1USD per month, it seems a relatively sustainable business.
- FollowingTheDao 2y agoYeah, I think he is confusing "non-profit" with "non-payment". You can have a non-profit company with paying customers. I think he need to take a basic economics class.
- sealeck 2y agoI think the tone of this comment is unnecessarily condemning (apologies if I am reading it incorrectly) – I can totally understand why someone who has worked for years on a non-profit business which has created a lot of value for people (I think exercism is pretty good software) might want to be able to at least pay themself.
- kelnos 2y agoNon-profit doesn't mean you didn't get to pay yourself. It just means that any revenue that exceeds expenses must be reinvested into the business.
- slkjdlskjdklsd 2y agoThat sounds like Amazon to me.
- JCharante 2y agoExcept amazon shares would be worth much less if there was a promise of no dividends ever
- ihid 2y agoThanks, yeah. New product will hopefully mean I can keep funding and growing exercism. They're very synergistic and will support each other.
- JCharante 2y agoCharging people $1 on sign-up would probably lower that 96% metric