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given how niech the market is for this, I think some of your numbers are overoptimistic.

by GhotiFish 12y ago

IkmoIkmo 12y ago
I disagree, could you elaborate? In terms of competition, I showed some numbers for an extremely similar service, Team Treehouse. They both operate in largely the same niche, and Team Treehouse is definitely the better product (better edited, well-thought out videos, review, examinations and a development environment, all for $25 monthly for 1.000+ videos, while this offers just a single video that's less thought-out, not edited as well and has no examination for $18). The other numbers I posted were mostly regarding cost. And cost has no niche. Whether you produce for a broad audience, or a niche audience, if you're in a small conference room with an iphone-quality camera recording two dudes working through relatively elementary programming challenges, it doesn't matter whether that's a niche, or whether that's something extremely mainstream to watch. The cost is going to be low. i.e. you can pay a programmer $100 an hour, two of them, for a two-hour video ($400) plus very simple editing, for $750, hell make it $1k if you want. Then compare that to their pricing, and you get to something like 50 people watching a video to break even. In a world of online, digital education, with tons of great coding sessions on youtube for free, I just don't think pricing an elementary coding challenge like 'rank a poker hand' at $18 makes a lot of sense. Seems to me you're much better off charging a few bucks and trying to get thousands of people to watch the video instead, or price it at $18 for access to multiple videos for a month, much like their competition which operate in a similar niche with much, much cheaper prices for more professional content, imo. (I'm talking about an order of magnitude more content per dollar easily, even two orders of magnitude.)

4 ms·

given how niech the market is for this, I think some of your numbers are overoptimistic.

by GhotiFish 12y ago

given how niech the market is for this, I think some of your numbers are overoptimistic.

IkmoIkmo 12y ago
I disagree, could you elaborate? In terms of competition, I showed some numbers for an extremely similar service, Team Treehouse. They both operate in largely the same niche, and Team Treehouse is definitely the better product (better edited, well-thought out videos, review, examinations and a development environment, all for $25 monthly for 1.000+ videos, while this offers just a single video that's less thought-out, not edited as well and has no examination for $18). The other numbers I posted were mostly regarding cost. And cost has no niche. Whether you produce for a broad audience, or a niche audience, if you're in a small conference room with an iphone-quality camera recording two dudes working through relatively elementary programming challenges, it doesn't matter whether that's a niche, or whether that's something extremely mainstream to watch. The cost is going to be low. i.e. you can pay a programmer $100 an hour, two of them, for a two-hour video ($400) plus very simple editing, for $750, hell make it $1k if you want. Then compare that to their pricing, and you get to something like 50 people watching a video to break even. In a world of online, digital education, with tons of great coding sessions on youtube for free, I just don't think pricing an elementary coding challenge like 'rank a poker hand' at $18 makes a lot of sense. Seems to me you're much better off charging a few bucks and trying to get thousands of people to watch the video instead, or price it at $18 for access to multiple videos for a month, much like their competition which operate in a similar niche with much, much cheaper prices for more professional content, imo. (I'm talking about an order of magnitude more content per dollar easily, even two orders of magnitude.)