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That’s actually not that bad. The All-products pack goes is only getting 24€ (pre-tax) more expensive per year for me.
I still pay because I want to support them and their stance but paying more for less leaves a bad aftertaste.
With 10 USD, I can buy 1 weeks worth of food in my country. I wish SASS, software providers like Jetbrains adjusts their price based on country per capita.
What the hell is up with prices? Everything I pay in dollars became 20% more expensive. My cereal became 20% more expensive. Jetbrains becomes 20% more expensive. This is the first time in my life (34 yo) that price changes have been so large that they’re apparent to me. And even with a dev salary the combined amount is high enough that it has an impact on my behavior.
USD is becoming worthless, the fed kept printing infinite money and people are sick of receiving toilet paper Also the fact that they had to fire their entire Russian R&D department, and instead rely on Westerners, they are more expensive, so they are forced to increase their price overall, that's my guess
Well in advance. Thanks. By the way I think it would be nice to also have a hobbyist license option for those who barely use it and don't earn any money this way. The actual price seems almost free in terms of how much a full-time developer would earn using it yet slightly expensive for something [awesome] I only launch on some occasions a year.
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These tools do SO MUCH more than just give you a GUI for a coding system. Code analysis, preventative suggestions, and a common look and feel for people switching languages and stacks.
Yes, a lot of it can be cobbled together with open source tooling and scripts and blah blah but I want to spend my time getting shit done, not writing code to be able to write code. The 100$ a year was well worth it for the suite I had, and even double that would still be an irrelevant amount of money to me with my engineering salary.
Time is money, saving time - not just my own, but the time of others on my team using similar tooling - is worth spending a little money and dropping snobbish elitism based on nothing stronger than "I must be smart because I know how something works".
It might be an unpopular opinion but I appreciate the transparency of the post. There are other companies which products I use that I’m afraid are not financially sustainable and thus I’m afraid for an email saying that the products has been discontinued.
There’s always the possibility of open source, home brewed or whatever, but when it comes to getting stuff done sometimes paying is cheaper than the time/effort of an alternative.
Best of luck jetbrains!
In general I think a price increase is reasonable but Jetbrains also had to fire most of its staff because of the war and development has slowed to a crawl. I still pay because I want to support them and their stance but paying more for less leaves a bad aftertaste.
I don’t have much to add but what I do have is a question. What happens when people are priced out of economic activity. Most recent memory of this much economic turbulence is ‘08 but the conditions between then and now are incomparable.
What the hell is up with prices? Everything I pay in dollars became 20% more expensive. My cereal became 20% more expensive. Jetbrains becomes 20% more expensive. This is the first time in my life (34 yo) that price changes have been so large that they’re apparent to me. And even with a dev salary the combined amount is high enough that it has an impact on my behavior.
> Jetbrains becomes 20% more expensive.
I understand the frustration but surely you can see the causality link here? Jetbrains employees have to eat too.
The individual solution is sadly for you to ask for a 20% raise and screw people down the line.
Global solution would be enforced price controls, we know it works because France did it after the war, the government imposed lower prices and started selling good directly itself and France got out with a much lower inflation than other countries.