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As someone heavily into the Ruby world (and particularly the news side of it) this has certainly seemed to come out of nowhere for me, though to be fair.. exist
by petercooper 13y ago
As someone heavily into the Ruby world (and particularly the news side of it) this has certainly seemed to come out of nowhere for me, though to be fair.. existing Rubyists are not really the target audience :-) How did it grow to reach 9000 students?
As it stands now, the YC-backed startup has over 9,000 paying student customers, with a month of tutorials costing $49.95.
I'm guessing earlier signups got preferential pricing, but there's still a potential for $100k+ per month revenues there.. that's pretty striking! :)
- steveklabnik 13y agoI heard of them a month ago. Come on, peterc! :p (I only noticed because I've been a bit obsessive about twitter followers as of late, and noticed that they followed me.)
- mattangriffel 13y agoHey Peter! We've been running under the radar since about November, iterating on the content on the online system itself. It started out as the best-selling class on Skillshare (with 2000 students) and grew from there. While the first version was only $20, it was also only about half the content of this current one (and was recorded in one day!)
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- BWStearns 13y agoOMR was on TC "university", while this was the only one I tried I assume that had a lot to do with their numbers. I tried it because I saw it at the moment I decided to give rails a go and I got it for $20 because of a sale. That said, Mattan did make a good class for beginners and I've recommended at least one friend who was interested in mucking around with rails but was a rather novice programmer (even moreso than I am).