This looks phenomenal. Next time I have a break from work I would love to work through one of your courses. Thanks for sharing, and best of luck building your business!
Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software
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Re: Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software
#132Why 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 $80/mo for an extended period of time for just Git, Docker, Redis, and SQLite clones though. You'd need a plethora of content to have me stay for more than a…
Thanks for your recommendation! You're right, us developers are naturally curious people and we need to feed that curiosity.
We're collecting interest on some upcoming challenges here https://vote.codecrafters.io, with a new one launching next week!
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#133How is it compared to JetBrains' https://hyperskill.org ? They seems to be competitive products. PS. HyperSkill's pricing is also more competitive. They offer tons of tracks containing hundreds of coding projects at the price of 240$ per year, while CodeCrafers' charge is 790$ per year.
We last looked at JetBrains academy ~6 months ago and at the time it mostly had beginner-level content. Looks like they've got some advanced content now, like this one: https://hyperskill.org/projects/112?track=2.
I'd consider them a competitor, and I like their approach - hands-on project-based learning with automated tests to guide your implementation.
I think the primary difference (aside from their content being slightly skewed towards beginners and the limited languages on offer) is that our format involves re-creating devtools from scratch.
Re: Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software
#134This looks phenomenal. Next time I have a break from work I would love to work through one of your courses. Thanks for sharing, and best of luck building your business!
Thanks for the kind words!
Re: Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software
#135This looks phenomenal. Next time I have a break from work I would love to work through one of your courses. Thanks for sharing, and best of luck building your business!
Can't wait
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#136The “trusted by engineers at” massive list of Top companies seems very suspect and fishy for a “Launch HN”. It feels dishonest. Where is the proof of that?
It's understandable it feels that way. That list is actually old, and we should have added a lot more now.
Here are some randomly-chosen examples of engineers at my fav developer-oriented companies:
Cloudflare — https://codecrafters.io/users/AkshataDM
Docker — https://codecrafters.io/users/rumpl
AWS — https://codecrafters.io/users/JohnHVancouver
Stripe — https://codecrafters.io/users/shaldengeki
Microsoft — https://codecrafters.io/users/vladtenlive
Vercel — https://codecrafters.io/users/jaredpalmer
SourceGraph — https://codecrafters.io/users/daxmc99
You get the picture :)
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the kind words! The logos highlight companies where our customers (the engineers) work. Since we're early stage, so far it's more common for engineers to discover CodeCrafters, sign up by themselves, and expense it to their company. That might explain why you can't find information about subscription on the intranet. We also do have cases where we work with companies to land team subscriptions, so if you'd…
It seems kind of disingenuous to show companies logos, when it could just be a random employee- let alone using the phrase "trusted by".
I've also listed out some of the folks with public CodeCrafters profiles from some the highlighted companies here (Cloudflare, Docker, AWS, Stripe, Microsoft, Vercel, Sourcegraph) — randomly selected.
If you look them up, you'd get a sense for their background / role, etc :)
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Rustlings for other languages seems like a really good idea, thanks! Were you doing Rustlings as part of onboarding at a new job / project, or as a hobby?
As a hobby, I do full stack in JS mainly for work. You could take a look at exercism.io as well, although some of their questions are more like Leetcode rather than teaching the language which is not the way to go I think.
indeed, Exercism is a good resource — but our approaches are pretty different
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#139I might be interested in this. Saved!
Can't wait
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems kind of disingenuous to show companies logos, when it could just be a random employee- let alone using the phrase "trusted by".
I've also listed out some of the folks with public CodeCrafters profiles from some the highlighted companies here (Cloudflare, Docker, AWS, Stripe, Microsoft, Vercel, Sourcegraph) — randomly selected. If you look them up, you'd get a sense for their background / role, etc :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32351531
You should remove the company logos. I work at Cloudflare and this seems like false advertisement.