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I have a lot of respect for JetBrains. They are bootstrapped, doing $400M+ revenue, and selling to one of the hardest segments (developers who are notoriously
by alberth 1y ago
I have a lot of respect for JetBrains.
They are bootstrapped, doing $400M+ revenue, and selling to one of the hardest segments (developers who are notoriously frugal).
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- rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 1y ago>selling to one of the hardest segments (developers who are notoriously frugal). But they don't sell to developers, they sell to suits high in the food chain of a corporation.
- hu3 1y agoI know many developers who buy Jetbrains licenses from their own pockets.
- mgkimsal 1y agoI'm one... I was introduced to JB by someone else who paid out of their own pocket 18 years ago. I thought he was crazy... then a couple years later I tried it in earnest and it was ... life (well career) changing.
- brentroose 1y agoOut of curiosity: do you know why they pay for it themselves instead of asking their company to do so?
- bayindirh 1y agoBecause not all "developers" are developers in their day jobs. I'm personally a sysadmin most of the time, and I do my own R&D (mostly academic, but novel). Some tools I like are not free, and I buy licenses by myself.
- kyriakos 1y agoCause many developers have personal projects they cant use company resources on
- Dennip 1y agoTBH even that can be a hard sell at times
- sesm 1y agoI'm paying for their IDEs out of my pocket since 2012
- shagie 1y agoI bought my first Jetbrains license when they had an end of the world clearance sale. https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2012/12/20/jetbrains-end-of-the-world-clearance-sale-24-hours-only/ https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2012/12/20/jetbrains-end-of-... ... and haven't let it expire since.
- vjvjvjvjghv 1y agoTotally agree. And so far they haven’t enshittified their products. Prices are ok and licensing terms are ok.
- TiredOfLife 1y agoThey also are the rare example of a company that actually left russia (even more impressive because the company was largely russian) unlike western and eastern companies that published some press releases, but still continue to work and collaborate with russia. Even the "privacy first" Apple continues to remove any app the russian government asks and pays millions in fines.