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Alive Beta – Live Coding in Visual Studio

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Re: Alive Beta – Live Coding in Visual Studio

#34

Post by adamnemecek »

revanx_ wrote: post #33

I don't get it, what are the practicle advantages to using this? To me it just looks like a pointless gimmick. If I write a line of code I know what it will do since otherwise I wouldn't be able to write it in the first place.

Have you ever debugged something? Have you ever read code that wasn't written by you?

Re: Alive Beta – Live Coding in Visual Studio

#37

Post by r3bl »

Avalaxy wrote: post #36

I'd really like to try this, but the price is wayyy too steep. Especially for a beta. For that price I almost get ReSharper, which does a ton more. I would probably pay $20~$30 for this.

Exactly!

Charging that amount of money for the beta version is kind of silly to me.

Re: Alive Beta – Live Coding in Visual Studio

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Post by CRidge »

Permit wrote: post #8
spigoon wrote: post #4

I wonder why they went with a "paid beta" vs. a traditional free beta.

This is by far the most common question we get asked, and this weekend I'm going to write a full length blog post about that decision. What might shock you even more is that we originally charged to pre-order the alpha version . The short version: - We needed to quickly figure out if we were building a product that people loved and thought was worth paying for. - We're trying to build a product a small number of peop…

I can see your point, but I would never pay for a product like this without a free demo version.

These Visual Studio extensions often have the side effect of taking up way too much of the computers resources. Without having a fully functioning (time limited?) version of the product on my machine, working with a large VS solution, I will just move on and probably have forgotten about this by tomorrow...

With a free version available, I would have tested it and if it works as well as in the video, I'd most likely pay for it and recommend it to colleagues by the end of the day.

Re: Alive Beta – Live Coding in Visual Studio

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Post by JosephRedfern »

Permit wrote: post #8
spigoon wrote: post #4

I wonder why they went with a "paid beta" vs. a traditional free beta.

This is by far the most common question we get asked, and this weekend I'm going to write a full length blog post about that decision. What might shock you even more is that we originally charged to pre-order the alpha version . The short version: - We needed to quickly figure out if we were building a product that people loved and thought was worth paying for. - We're trying to build a product a small number of peop…

"We needed to quickly figure out if we were building a product that people loved and thought was worth paying for." - how are people supposed to know if they love it and think it's worth paying for without paying for it in the first place?

Re: Alive Beta – Live Coding in Visual Studio

#40

Post by jeremiep »

Permit wrote: post #8
spigoon wrote: post #4

I wonder why they went with a "paid beta" vs. a traditional free beta.

This is by far the most common question we get asked, and this weekend I'm going to write a full length blog post about that decision. What might shock you even more is that we originally charged to pre-order the alpha version . The short version: - We needed to quickly figure out if we were building a product that people loved and thought was worth paying for. - We're trying to build a product a small number of peop…

What about a free trial period? Something that expires after a few short months.

We used that to try out ReSharper and ended up loving it to the point we bought a few dozen licenses. Management is much easier to convince once you get half the developers wanting the same thing :)

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