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Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software

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Post by sarupbanskota »

jamestimmins wrote: post #108

This looks really awesome, and as someone who loves reading source code (and works in OSS full time), this is my ideal way to learn. The price seems sensible as long as the quality is high. The question I'd want answered before asking my employer to pay for it is how complex it can get. There's certainly value in a Redis that takes 3 hours to build, but there's a lot more value in the 30-50 hour version where you hav…

Thanks James! We're just getting started, and the current thinking is that we'll add depth to our courses along different "branches". e.g after you've been through the basic stages of Redis, you can continue along a path to dive deeper within the persistence aspects of Redis, or the networking aspects.

You can preview the current stages for each of our courses here: https://app.codecrafters.io/tracks/go. You can do a trial to get a feel for the learning experience. If you find that the current stages aren't at the complexity level you're looking for, you should keep an eye out for future updates (would also love to hear what other stages / branches you'd suggest for our courses)

Re: Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software

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Post by sarupbanskota »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #110

I love the idea of this, and I disagree with others about the price being too high. If you're in the US/Canada/UK and planning to spend even a couple of hours per month using this to further your skills and career, then the value of your time investment will exceed your cash outlay on the subscription. That being said, I wonder whether you've considered offering a student discount for bona fide students? You could do…

Ooh, super interesting. Thank you! We weren't aware of Unidays / StudentBeans, indeed sounds like something we should explore. We have organically seen students sign up — so I'm sure a more favorable pricing to them could go a long way.

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Post by avarun »

sarupbanskota wrote: post #113
rahimnathwani wrote: post #110

I love the idea of this, and I disagree with others about the price being too high. If you're in the US/Canada/UK and planning to spend even a couple of hours per month using this to further your skills and career, then the value of your time investment will exceed your cash outlay on the subscription. That being said, I wonder whether you've considered offering a student discount for bona fide students? You could do…

Ooh, super interesting. Thank you! We weren't aware of Unidays / StudentBeans, indeed sounds like something we should explore. We have organically seen students sign up — so I'm sure a more favorable pricing to them could go a long way.

There's also SheerID which is what Spotify uses to validate student IDs and is IME better than Unidays.

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Post by mandeepj »

You've appealed to me. I'm continuously learning to become better. My next self goal is to add sharding and replication into SQLite.

Question - Can you share an example with me - how would you teach someone to use OOPS (inheritance/composition), design patterns, and SOLID principles - to better structure code for maintainability, enhancements?

One of my personal philosophies is to write less code, but still achieve as much if not more.

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Post by lamontcg »

sarupbanskota wrote: post #92
lamontcg wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the prices are more or less in line with what they're offering. Based on the descriptions I expected low-to-high triple digits, which is in-line with Arden Labs golang training. The subscription model is a bit annoying, though, I'd prefer to spend a bit more to get lifetime access to sets of tutorials so that you can come back to it at any time in the future. The future upsell would be new tutorials sold to e…

Thanks for your feedback here! While we don't offer lifetime plans currently, our quarterly and annual plans are one-time.

It looks good, I probably would have pulled the trigger, but I'm going to be AFK for three weeks coming up with no electricity or running water... Did bookmark it to come back to it though.

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Post by dodgerdog05 »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #110

I love the idea of this, and I disagree with others about the price being too high. If you're in the US/Canada/UK and planning to spend even a couple of hours per month using this to further your skills and career, then the value of your time investment will exceed your cash outlay on the subscription. That being said, I wonder whether you've considered offering a student discount for bona fide students? You could do…

how do you rate the online CS degree at WGU?

Re: Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software

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Post by jb3689 »

Why do I need to authorize you with my GH in order to see your track's contents? I would recommend opening the curriculum so a potential buyer can preview whether the product is right for them

I think this is an interesting idea. I find it hard to justify paying $80/mo for an extended period of time for just Git, Docker, Redis, and SQLite clones though. You'd need a plethora of content to have me stay for more than a month to simply power through it all. $80 is even a lot for just those considering there are easy to find tutorials for these. The real selling point is having a lot of modules colocated and I am merely paying for convenience and manicured delivery rather than novelty

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Post by mhdhn »

sarupbanskota wrote: post #32
theylovezmw wrote: post #24

Congrats on the launch! I've been using CodeCrafters for a year now and am a huge fan of the product. One problem I had was finding proper documentation/guidance for when I got blocked. Beyond the Discord are there any plans to unblock users?

Thank you for your kind words! Until a few months back, we were focused solely on the "challenge" aspect of the product. Based on customer feedback, we've been making new features available that offer more guidance when you're stuck — a 2min preview is available on this demo video — https://codecrafters.io/videos/demo . 1. We show you expert-vetted code approaches for different languages in each stage, and also expla…

A little micro-suggestion on videos: record the narration separately from actually doing the computer work. I.e., do NOT record the keyboard clacking. It's super annoying to some people. Like me. Thanks.
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