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Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help

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Post by DerDangDerDang »

Jestar342 wrote: post #103

The thing that most impresses me about JetBrains' products, after the very real "This was made by developers" feel to them, and the excellent community interaction, and the regular and plentiful updates.. is the price. They don't price gouge their users. They could double their prices and still have plenty of sales (but I guess they'd probably lose a lot of personal licenses.) I'm sure they have actually done the num…

They worked out that every personal licensee is an advocate, if not an outright evangelist for their product.

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Post by mnahkies »

Philip-J-Fry wrote: post #55

Thank the gods for JetBrains. I love their software. Excellent business model, I get to keep the software I bought when the license expires. Never forced to continually pay for something you don't see value in updating. I think that's one of the key factors which drives them to continue to improve their products. If future version of their products wasn't vastly improved over the previous then people wouldn't upgrade…

I'm a big fan of teamcity - might be because it's the first CI system I used professionally, but compared to Jenkins it just works (batteries included) and compared to circleci I find the configuration much less repeatitive and UI richer in terms of reporting / feedback.

Yet to try the cloud hosted version, but it's on my list as the only downside for my personal usage is the minimum ram requirement (I try to keep my hobby projects Infrastructure as close to $0 cost / month as possible)

Re: Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help

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Post by krisgenre »

dxxvi wrote: post #101

I wish Jetbrains would lower the personal license price. I use my compnay license all the time but still pay Jetbrains $89 every year (don't know why I've been doing that for a few years already, should give it a second thought).

I didn't even apply for a license from my company because I use it on my personal laptop too. Jetbrains is so good that I actually feel happy paying for it. Its quite ironical that I started my career as an Eclipse RCP developer and up until 2016 I considered it the best IDE in the world.

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Post by dlsniper »

Aeolun wrote: post #42
random5634 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed- they also did discounts for long term users. I can't beer bothered too switch so pay happily because it's always seemed like fair treatment

I think the total discount on the ‘all products’ pack is now 40% after two years of usage, so I’m paying 15/month for literally all my IDE’s Pretty good deal if you ask me. Now if only I could do remote development like in VSCode.

> Now if only I could do remote development like in VSCode.

We are working on it, stay tuned :)

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Post by mschuster91 »

dxxvi wrote: post #101

I wish Jetbrains would lower the personal license price. I use my compnay license all the time but still pay Jetbrains $89 every year (don't know why I've been doing that for a few years already, should give it a second thought).

IntelliJ is 15€ a month, hardly expensive. A rack of good Augustiner beer is more expensive.

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Post by vbezhenar »

Philip-J-Fry wrote: post #55

Thank the gods for JetBrains. I love their software. Excellent business model, I get to keep the software I bought when the license expires. Never forced to continually pay for something you don't see value in updating. I think that's one of the key factors which drives them to continue to improve their products. If future version of their products wasn't vastly improved over the previous then people wouldn't upgrade…

It is interesting that they initially offered subscription model without unexpirable license. But because of community backlash they changed it and people seem to be happy with the outcome.

Listen to your users.

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Post by avl999 »

It is so well deserved. I have switched a few different languages in the last few years and everytime I start working on a new project in a new language, the first thing I do is lookup the IDE that JetBrains is vending for that language and get my manager to expense it. An amazing product.

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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…

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Post by Gybtb »

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…

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