Congratulations for the effort and contribution!
Thank you! Hope you enjoy the books :)
Underscore's Scala books are now open source
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Re: Underscore's Scala books are now open source
#32I think giving away the books for free is good. However I just had a look and the courses ain't cheap. A good way to generate customers huh? The way I read your post it seemed that you guys were broke and needed a donation. Hey if I got that wrong sorry in advance.
"broke and needed a donation" --> This is not the case, and we wouldn't open source the books if we wanted to make more money. I could talk more about this, as I think the business angle is interesting and on topic for HN, but I'm at a conference right now.
Tiny update on this. So far today 3808 books have been downloaded and about $81 in donations have been made. In a normal day we'd sell less 4 or 5 books and make between $100 and $200.
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#33thanks, it is just in time for me, I'm looking for book about slick :)
A decent Slick book is desperately needed.
While the Slick documentation is accurate and nicely written it is really slim. I honestly think the paucity of documentation is holding back wider adoption.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
"broke and needed a donation" --> This is not the case, and we wouldn't open source the books if we wanted to make more money. I could talk more about this, as I think the business angle is interesting and on topic for HN, but I'm at a conference right now.
Tiny update on this. So far today 3808 books have been downloaded and about $81 in donations have been made. In a normal day we'd sell less 4 or 5 books and make between $100 and $200.
Could you talk more about the business angle, if you get the chance?
I'm curious how you view selling vs giving away books and how it ties in to other revenue streams.
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#35Thank You. Looking forward to reading these.
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#36Seriously, big thanks to Underscore for this. The Type Astronaut's Guide to Shapeless is amazing and I'd recommend it to anyone who is an intermediate Scala developer that wants to step up it's game.
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#37Scala kotlin war?
It's pretty lame to create a fake profile just to post a lame troll post.
Re: Underscore's Scala books are now open source
#38thanks, it is just in time for me, I'm looking for book about slick :)
A decent Slick book is desperately needed. While the Slick documentation is accurate and nicely written it is really slim. I honestly think the paucity of documentation is holding back wider adoption.
As a sometime contributor to the slick project, I think the "Essential Slick" book, that is one of those that has been open-sourced here, does fill a gap in the documentation. I've recommended it in the past and now I can just link to it. Big thank you to Underscore for doing this.
It's an easy read with good examples that helps you get to grips with the concepts.
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#39They should redirect to https if they are accepting payment / donations. I've got the shapeless book and found it really good. Keen to read the Cats one now. Does anyone know where you can get a hard copy. ?
No hard copies yet for the Cats book---it isn't quite finished. When it is finished we'll look at creating hard copy. If you sign up with a real email address you'll get updates. As for https---that's something we'll have to look into. Not sure what the situation is but I thought the Gumroad popup was over https.
Ok, thanks Noel.
Oh I see, the popup is https...