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> Where the fuck are the VCs looking at serious hackers with millions of users who haven’t gotten the business model dialed in yet? Busy investing in AI?
These guys should "pivot to AI". Should be able to get a full B for an Ai company with 2 million users.
I used to contribute to Exercism a lot (I'm still technically a maintainer but haven't meaningfully helped in a while), I think it was the first OSS project I contributed a large amount of effort to. I was more or less the sole maintainer for C++ for a while and also helped with the C track.
It's definitely a good service and OSS project, I recommend it a lot. Fundamentally though people don't want to pay for things that they can get for free, or they're used to getting for free.
If people actually want OSS projects to survive, you should be giving a little bit of recurring money. I set aside $XX/month to distribute to projects and I don't even work anymore.
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$7500/mo easily hires two great 10 yr experience developers in most parts of the world.
Maybe I'm out of touch with how things have changed over the last year or 2, but 2 years ago you'd struggle to find 1 great dev with 10 YoE for that price ($90K/yr) Even if things have changed now, I can't imagine you'd find a great dev with 10 YoE for less than $80K/yr, and that's hiring globally (with the time zone issues that come with it). You can probably get 1 OK dev and 1 bad dev with 10 YoE for that price tho…
But It will probably hire less then half of a US developer that then pisses all the other money away on overpriced AWS Servers, so that is right.
Crazy idea: charge $1
But $12/yr. is probably doable.
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Would $1/month even be worth it? It seems payment processors would take a big chunk out of that $1, which is why I very rarely see monthly subs of that amount.
You'd probably want to charge $10/year (once) rather than $1/month. It's still an easy choice for many people (of course still inaccessible for students in some countries).
I don't have a solution for you, and you probably tried a lot of prudent things. I assume you have already contacted people that buy into educational software (e.g. Kevin O'Leary of 'Shark Tank' fame)?
I wish you some kind of miracle that turns things around; sometimes once conversation can change everything. Surely this user base deserves that the site finds a way to sustain.
You already have the sandbox and the support for the most popular languages.
It may take some development to build out the feature but you probably wouldn't need too many to sign on to cover your costs and you could still leave your core offering free.
So you need to charge, but don’t want to lie about the 100% free part even though you can change that So you need to upcharge. It is 100% free… to start and then there is a subscription that is paid to finish the language course, shown in monthly cost but charged annually by default more languages? charge more You can sell the account data to recruitment firms. Everyone hates this but you know that your users are the…
I'm not sure whether to be appalled by your suggestions or impressed by your blatancy
85% off on the annual plan, just that it’s $200, but at least you’re not paying $99/month anymore
the interesting thing about the not “not-for-profit” model is that all you have to do is just undercut educative.io by a tiny bit
I would love for this site to continue and thrive.
I also agree with some others here that the hosting at AWS is probably best left to organizations that have a lot of spare cash. It is way overpriced. I self host a fairly busy site. It is mostly hands-off. I have never really fully understood the AWS premium.
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ah I see that might be a bit more tricky. I was wondering why the costs were so high. For example, I serve roughly 3 million users on a $40/month VPS. I only run Postgres + Django, if I use Supabase and all these other fancy cloud SaaS I wouldn't be able to sustain it as the costs would increase 10~20x fold.
(supabase ceo) our postgres offering costs roughly equivalent of RDS so if you use it with Django I don’t think you will come close to 20-40x a VPS, ymmv, depending on your workload We have an Auth service, but since you use Django you wouldn’t need it - sounds like you’d only need postgres (like a lot of our customers)