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Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help

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Re: Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help

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Post by jordanab »

Aeolun wrote: post #56
manojlds wrote: post #3

Ok so everyone knows and loves JetBrains. What's their worst product so far?

Datagrip. I honestly still cannot understand why their database product does not show the encoding/collation for fields in mysql (and has no way to do it either).

I disagree. I use it daily as my tool to manage data in MySQL, Postgress, Sql server and Db2 databases, and it's probably one of my favorite JetBrains tools. As a Linux user there aren't that many good options available, and I am very grateful that they added this product to their line.

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Post by 0dmethz »

leetrout wrote: post #73

I canceled all my personal jetbrains products a few years ago after meeting some of their team at GopherCon. I vote with my money and I was a 5+ year subscriber up until that point. I visited their booth with same enthusiasm as other posters here and lavished praise on their tooling and talked about how excited I was for their Go IDE and they just stared at me and said “Ok, thanks”. Something so empty and almost a pr…

You stopped using their tools because some people at a conference didn't respond enthusiastically enough to your praise?

Re: Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help

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Post by AndyPa32 »

cooervo wrote: post #89

Since their HQ is in Russia is no one else concerned that their IDE may be subject to Russian spying? I mean, I'm currently reading the book Sandworm. And it is known in the cybersecurity world that Russia coerces or intimidates companies and devs to work for them as spies.

Their headquarter is in Prague, Czechia and that's part of the European Union.

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Post by simion314 »

leetrout wrote: post #73

I canceled all my personal jetbrains products a few years ago after meeting some of their team at GopherCon. I vote with my money and I was a 5+ year subscriber up until that point. I visited their booth with same enthusiasm as other posters here and lavished praise on their tooling and talked about how excited I was for their Go IDE and they just stared at me and said “Ok, thanks”. Something so empty and almost a pr…

Maybe is a culture/language thing. Because I am not a native English speaker and I almost never have to speak (only read and write) when we have a video conference I always express myself with few words because I am aware how terrible I sound so I will use a lot of OK,Yes, Sure ...

Re: Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help

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Post by victor106 »

It’s rare these to read stories of software billionaires and think it’s well deserved. This is one of those rare cases.

Also, IntelliJ runs on Java, for all the bashing that Java gets on HN, it’s an example of how “what technology you pick is less important than your focus on user experience”. It’s amazing that their products are so performant on Java

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Post by [deleted] »

tuyguntn wrote: post #19

if JetBrains people are reading this, I want to say THANK YOU! You saved lots of developer time with IDE, then Kotlin language. I use Golang, Python and Database IDEs, and they are really nice and time saving, can't imagine how much time you guys saved to Java developers where everything is reflection based annotations and deep level of abstract class/interface implementations. (last time when I worked with Java in V…

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Re: Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help

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Post by risyachka »

malux85 wrote: post #59
arpa wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just bought a personal IDE licence a few days ago. JetBrains makes one of the best IDEs I've ever used, and I consider that 100€ well spent.

Agreed - JetBrains is one of those companies where their products speak for themselves, and I happily pay every year. Absolutely money well spent.

And their pricing model is great. All products subscription stars $250 but after 2 years its only $150!

Re: Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help

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Post by usrusr »

peteretep wrote: post #62
tailsdog wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As I understood it Tesla was founded by Americans and later Musk bought in.

> Tesla was founded (as Tesla Motors) on July 1, 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in San Carlos, California ... A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five (Eberhard, Tarpenning, Wright, Musk and Straubel) to call themselves co-founders

Well, SpaceX isn't exactly considered "Africa's Space Programme" either. (But Jetbrains is surely far more Russian than SpaceX is South African)

Re: Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help

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Post by malux85 »

risyachka wrote: post #97
malux85 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed - JetBrains is one of those companies where their products speak for themselves, and I happily pay every year. Absolutely money well spent.

And their pricing model is great. All products subscription stars $250 but after 2 years its only $150!

I know it's mental. Their yearly cost pays for itself in productivity boost in like 1-2 days. It's such good value ...
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