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how did it turn out?

I agree - I think this is a great idea and really cool to see. However, when I first went to the site, there was something off putting about it which I couldn't put my finger on. Thinking about it, I think it's the amount of eye movement required to scan the links. With HN, on a wide screen, scanning the stories to find ones I want to read only requires a limited amount of movement, mostly downward, whereas with the grid, I have to scan across the entire screen and after doing so, completing one row, I've only scanned the titles of four stories...

Nonetheless, I like the innovative idea. Thanks for sharing!

After reading this, seems like this should titled "how to veil your advertising in blog posts..." Not to sound overly cynical but this seems to be again about pushing the new products created through content advertising.

That said, I did click on one and while howmuchtomakeanapp seemed cool, the site was so slow that i closed it after two questions.

Great story, glad to hear it worked out. Would be good to see/read a little more detail on the analysis part - i.e., any email analytics, any refunds, how many hours you put into it.

Also, did you ever consider a monthly subscription, working with artists to release new lessons routinely?

Edit Sorry - just thought of it - would recommend course referrals / testimonials on your site...

I'd be interested to know how many affiliate sales you get from this link :)

I use it for personal, small scale repos where i just want to have the repo online and available across machines. Having the free, hosted tier is invaluable to me as a single developer.

That said, I've also used it in a paid, hosted environment supporting a team of 10. Again, our needs weren't overly complex and the integration with team software like Jira and Confluence were great (as can be I suppose, given the complexity of both tools).

I'm actually surprised there isn't more of a discussion around bitbucket and the cost of hosting smaller, private repos. Do most just dislike bitbucket or are you hosting bigger projects with multiple contributors which requires Github / gitlab services?

For what it's worth, I had the same first impression...

me too

My unsolicited advice - having done something similar with drupal though, not wordpress - choose something you'll enjoy working with, if it's wordpress, go with it (keep in mind there are a lot of "wordpress" developers and by that i mean, people who just grab a bunch of plugins, put a site together and say they have extensive wordpress experience - don't be that person). That all said, you may have better luck with a framework like rails, django, etc. if you want to make a similar transition into product building...

From there, get involved in the community (e.g., attend meetups, drupal has a good one in toronto). I found success finding clients by learning about drupal and recording video tutorials about what i learned to teach others (drupal has a ridiculous learning curve when you are coming from no where).

Hope that helps.

Like the article, thanks for sharing but what would you be selling to universities that would be $9.99/month and only be sold once, or have one license? Also, wouldn't it be 1300 * $10 * 12 months = 156K not 1.5M?

Oh nice! that's a great idea, thanks for sharing

Great read, thanks for sharing. I'm interested in learning more about the management transition discussed at the beginning though and what it looks like in practice. Once you discover that a team has lost confidence in its manager, what steps are taken to transition them? Discuss the issue, agree amicably to part ways, timing, etc? And how is that typically received?

Looked at the site and read the comments which made me think about the HN post yesterday about hiding vulnerabilities in plain site (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10889721). Like your idea though.

Author here. I know - I did have a feeling of guilt applying a price to it but honestly, I've been putting a lot of work into it at the expense of other projects (I do free youtube tutorials too) and was hoping the price would help implicitly identify that.

Is there a specific reason you say it's a shame it has a price?

Agreed. I like reading these. Kinda disappointed to see the project abandoned though. Seemed like you were really on to something and like others are saying, you probably could have found cheaper hosting to keep it going. Also would +1 seeing the project open sourced if it's not continued.