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Please add subtitles to the videos. I don't always watch with sound and would like to be able to read as I go along.
I'm interested in why you'd go with 'Treehouse' as the name considering the trademark space for educational content is already pretty cluttered for that term. Was this considered and dismissed?
There is a bit of clutter, in the traditional education space. However, there wasn't anything with a good online presence, so we thought it was a great name. Not going to be able to buy treehouse.com for awhile though, as they want $1m for it.
looks nice, minor suggestion - some of the fonts look like hell on XP/Chrome and they're very hard to read. Congrats on launch
Yeah top right nav links look horrible for me in Win7/Chrome, as do the testimonials at the bottom.
The site looks great and very user friendly, but as others have pointed out, the paid-tier-only seems too restrictive. Specially given the motto of treehouse is "Millions of people can't afford a quality technical education, or if they can, it's out of date immediately when they graduate. We aim to change that." How can this compare to MIT (and other) Open Course Work and hundreds if not thousands of good free tutori…
Of course a lot of people on HN are going to be people who taught/teach themselves everything, but a lot of people want some hand holding, and that's what we aim to provide with Treehouse.
"Watch videos and take tests" Am I missing something? That's your learning method? Nothing interactive? No coding? Videos may be a fine way of understanding a process but it's not good for something as in-depth as coding. You don't learn code by watching videos of others doing it, you learn by coding. The site design is nice but you'd need to offer a lot more than videos to get me to sign up.
"Watch videos and take tests" Am I missing something? That's your learning method? Nothing interactive? No coding? Videos may be a fine way of understanding a process but it's not good for something as in-depth as coding. You don't learn code by watching videos of others doing it, you learn by coding. The site design is nice but you'd need to offer a lot more than videos to get me to sign up.
Congrats on the (re)launch! I used ThinkVitamin a little bit earlier this year, and it's great to see you guys moving forward. It wasn't for me at the time, but may be in the future. I don't know if it was just the timing (I was really busy) or the format (video isn't for everyone), but I was impressed with the product regardless. One thing to note on the new site: clicking "Sign your team up" on this page: http://te…
For now, the way Groups sign up is like this: Sign up and then add "sub-users". It's not elegant, but it works for now. Then in a month, we'll launch something super sweet.
Congrats for the product, the site is amazing and I enjoyed the free videos a lot.
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That's exactly the first question that came to my mind. When I don't see a "plans and pricing" link, I always start wondering where's the catch.
https://teamtreehouse.com/subscribe/plans When you click the "Sign Up" link it takes you there. Either $25/month or $40/month. The cheapest you can get away with is $300/year.
I know I am getting tired of using "free" services that actually aren't free at all when you factor in the time I have to use to really extract value from them.
I am just hoping Treehouse actually provides a service that makes a difference, i.e. someone can learn faster and more efficiently with Treehouse than some other way.
So far this looks good. Can't wait to try it out later tonight.
