Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

vim.so

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

221–230 of 283 posts

Re: Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

#221

Post by umvi »

elliotec wrote: post #219

I'm bothered by this because Vim is free, with only a hopeful plea for a donation to a charity for helping Uganda as the "payment." It feels a tad unethical to be charging for a slightly more fancy, maybe kinda gamified, vimtutor. Like, just make a vim plugin that does this in vim and let that be your community donation. But I suppose business is business eh.

I'm not bothered by it. I've thought about making a SaaS where I basically just host pre-compiled FOSS packages for esoteric cpu architectures. So that way if you have a embedded linux system, you can quickly grab a precompiled `tshark` for example without figuring out how to build it yourself. Sure, it would be better as a free service, but I'm not super motivated to do that in my highly limited spare time. I would be super motivated if I were compensated for my effort with cash, however.

Making something paid vs. free can be the difference between it existing and not existing. I'd rather have this exist and be a paid app than not exist and be free.

Re: Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

#222

Post by ivanhoe »

elliotec wrote: post #219

I'm bothered by this because Vim is free, with only a hopeful plea for a donation to a charity for helping Uganda as the "payment." It feels a tad unethical to be charging for a slightly more fancy, maybe kinda gamified, vimtutor. Like, just make a vim plugin that does this in vim and let that be your community donation. But I suppose business is business eh.

yeah, but again nothing stops you (or me, or anyone else reading this) to do it for free... except we will not, as we're busy earning money in other ways, so I don't think any of us can really claim a moral high ground here - and tutoring people for money is certainly much better than not tutoring them at all...

Re: Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

#224

Post by thotsBgone »

elliotec wrote: post #219

I'm bothered by this because Vim is free, with only a hopeful plea for a donation to a charity for helping Uganda as the "payment." It feels a tad unethical to be charging for a slightly more fancy, maybe kinda gamified, vimtutor. Like, just make a vim plugin that does this in vim and let that be your community donation. But I suppose business is business eh.

It's not "unethical" to charge money for a product that you made from scratch. People on this website really like that word, "unethical". Makes me wonder if they even know what it means. "Unethical: something you don't like."?

Re: Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

#227

Post by spectramax »

mellavora wrote: post #182
fao_ wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> - 'I want to surround this word in parentheses. (Visual-mode (region selection) Around Word Surround-with Matching-parens)' Holy shit, thank you. I've been looking for something like this for half a decade and never found it (I don't even know how I missed it!)

ysiwb yank-surround-in-word-brackets also does it. If you have https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround/ installed.

Could you please explain why we use Yank here? From what I understand yank puts the surround-in-word in a register.

But there is nothing surrounding the word! I thought yank was for copying and pasting stuff. I can't understand why ysiwb works :(

Re: Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

#228

Post by CoffeePython »

elliotec wrote: post #219

I'm bothered by this because Vim is free, with only a hopeful plea for a donation to a charity for helping Uganda as the "payment." It feels a tad unethical to be charging for a slightly more fancy, maybe kinda gamified, vimtutor. Like, just make a vim plugin that does this in vim and let that be your community donation. But I suppose business is business eh.

I don’t agree with the viewpoint but the revenue here has helped me sponsor one of my favorite open source projects FastAPI at $250/mo.

There’s value in providing teaching on something that is free. I’ve bought learning tools/apps for many different programming related topics and loved the value they provided.

Re: Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

#229

Post by CoffeePython »

Bluecobra wrote: post #208
CoffeePython wrote: post #2

Hey y'all! I built this interactive course after a year of learning vim and finding it to be extremely useful in my day to day development experience. The course is designed to give you lots of interactive practice so you can develop the muscle memory needed to effectively use vim. Would love to hear what you guys think about it :)

Hello, I tried purchasing the lifetime access earlier with Google Pay and accidently bought it twice. I did not get any order confirmation email nor do I see the transaction within Google Pay. I was able to get in and do the lessons What should I do? I apologize for reaching out on a public website but there is zero contact information on vim.so.

Hey, I just saw this. Please email me. Email is firstnamelastname@gmail.com

I’m Kenneth Cassel. I think the confirmation should have gone to whatever email you use for google.

Re: Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

#230

Post by mumblemumble »

boogies wrote: post #214
ketzo wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay... but the difference between a piece of text just telling me to use the commands so I remember them versus an interactive trainer that provides a structured setting for me to use them is pretty significant, no?

> a structured setting for me to use them is provided by vimtutor. I wish people would take a couple hundred milliseconds to research things like this before posting about them — most [GNU’s Not] Unix commands take less time to run than a webpage takes to load, and installing their packages takes no more typing than a web search.

In a really minimalist way. I've been in the process of trying to hone my vim skills, and I've been through vimtutor more than once. About the only things I can say for it is that it's free and it works in a text terminal. This online course is promising, and I'm probably going to sign up. It's salient. Salient is good. Salience promotes faster, deeper learning.
Post reply on HN