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JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

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Re: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

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Post by batgaijin »

martin-adams wrote: post #207
epaga wrote: post #188

All their server issues must mean they are dealing with unprecedented demand. It makes me wonder: When demand is THIS intense for a 75% off sale, you think it'd mean a more optimal "normal" price point would be at 25-50% off your current normal prices, wouldn't you?

It is because the offer plays to our human nature. We perceive we are getting something worth 4 times the value but fear that if we do not act now we will lose it forever. The fact that the servers are going down and people are excited by the offer also means that we will feel left out if we do not do what our fellow humans have validated as a good choice. If they offered the product at a cheaper price normally, they…

Yeah but parent is saying that if they had correct pricing they would be able to handle this level of demand.

75% off for your product should create a much larger sales revenue, but within a certain factor. Beyond that just shows that most of your potential customers view your software as being heavily overpriced.

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Post by moondowner »

egeozcan wrote: post #173
hhariri wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're on it. Trust us. We're on it.

We are refreshing. Trust us. Our fingers are on F5.

Fingers on F5 are not really helping. It's like a small scale DDoS if everybody did that.

Re: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

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Post by nileshk »

I'm an Eclipse user who has always thought about switching to IDEA, but the poor Emacs keyboard shortcut support has made it difficult to adapt to. With IDEA 12, they've made some major progress in Emacs keyboard shortcut support ( http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2012/03/more-emacs-for-the-f... ). It's still missing at least one minor thing that I'm used ("Quit" action, by default that is CTRL-G in Emacs), but I may be able to get used to that or find a workaround. At $50, I can't pass this up just in case I do end up switching to IDEA.

I occasional use Python (and sometimes this involves Django). I wonder, does PyCharm have any extra features that make it worth getting in addition to IDEA? Or is IDEA good enough for this already?

Re: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

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Post by panzerboy »

millerm wrote: post #65
scrumper wrote: post #13

Judging by how slow your site is at 7am EST, I'd say your sale is a big success :) Anyone used AppCode? I'm tempted to give it a try, but what's its killer features compared to Xcode? If refactoring works with ObjC++ that'd be a great start; worth EUR23 alone.

AppCode has been a wonderful tool for me. I have been using it since the EAP of 1.0. If you've used IntelliJ IDEA before you will feel very comfortable here. The refactorings are great and only getting better. The debugger and the ability to inspect variables much more easily that in Xcode is awesome. I just recently renewed my support on AppCode and I could have saved some cash, but the tool is so inexpensive as it…

I'm using it as well since the 1.0 EAP. However, one thing I miss from Xcode (I can't believe I'm saying this) is the handling of breakpoints.

As per this article: http://www.cimgf.com/2012/12/13/xcode-lldb-tutorial/, in Xcode it's possible to change the values of variables on the fly, while debugging, using breakpoints. I don't think that's possible at the moment with AppCode (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Having said that, I'm 99% of my day in AppCode and I go to Xcode only for xib editing and this kind of advanced lldb debugging.

Re: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

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Post by epaga »

kevingadd wrote: post #194
epaga wrote: post #188

All their server issues must mean they are dealing with unprecedented demand. It makes me wonder: When demand is THIS intense for a 75% off sale, you think it'd mean a more optimal "normal" price point would be at 25-50% off your current normal prices, wouldn't you?

I expect some of the demand is due to the fact that JetBrains releases new major versions of their products 2 or more times a year (ReSharper for example), and conveniently bundle important bug fixes into those versions instead of fixing the bugs in previous releases. So anyone who's - for example - still using ReSharper 6 will probably leap at this opportunity to finally get fixes for critical bugs in the product. N…

"More reasonable" points exactly to what I'm talking about.

If the demand for this offer is so intense their servers melt down for hours on end it seems this is pointing to a huge opportunity the rest of the year to reach all those who think 4x the current sales price (whether for the full version or the update) is "unreasonable".

One data point would be myself: as a single developer, spending 100€ on AppCode never felt "reasonable" considering XCode was free. 25€ is an instabuy of course - so it seems to me the "sweet spot" is more around 50-60€ where they'd reach far more than twice as many customers than at 100€...

Re: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

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Post by anu_gupta »

porker wrote: post #199
robmcm wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure what happens if you are self employed or have a limited company to consult from.

That's the issue; JetBrains seem entirely unaware of that. I am one man operating through a limited company. According to them I have to buy the commercial edition even though I am the company...

You can buy a personal licence using your own credit card. What you can't do is buy a license using your company credit card, or claim back the expense.

Re: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

hhariri wrote: post #123
jrs235 wrote: post #112

Ugh. I tried adding a product to the cart and got a "Some JetBrains services are currently down for scheduled maintenance. We'll be back online shortly. Thanks for your patience." page. Someone chose a really bad time for scheduled maintenance... I'm doubting it was scheduled. Hope they get this resolved soon.

Working on it. Sorry about this.

So was it scheduled or do you lie to your [potential] customers as a matter of policy?
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