I'm the founder of Scrimba.com, an interactive code-learning platform. We went almost two years from when we launched our very first free course until we launched our very first paid course. In the meanwhile, we planned the "perfect" business model and also pivoted to a Teams-based product for a while.
Had I just dared to put up a pricing wall in front of our second course instead, we'd have gotten the signal we needed from the market much earlier. Once we started getting revenue, everything else became a lot easier (what to invest more in, which courses to prioritise, what to do in general).
I learned this lesson the hard way - 11 months of freemium, decided to add a trial because "why not?" - now something like 95% of new users choose the trial of the Pro plan, instead of the free tier.
Awesome to hear that you're using Imba! It's my co-founder Sindre who has created it, not me. But please share whatever you're building with us (e.g. via Twitter or Discord), as we love seeing people use it to build stuff :)
I’m curious as to how NFTs will compare to a sales contract from a legal point of view.
E.g. if say an artist sells the rights to a digital artwork via both an NFT and via a normal sales contract. Both buyers claim ownership to the artwork and end up in court.
Who wins? And what implications will a legal presedence have for the vaule of NFTs one way or the other?
Why would owning the NFT give you any rights over the goods? If I've understood correctly, you just own a token. It has no inherent value by itself anf you basically own a link to something.
If so, then it would actually be legally and morally ok for the artist to do a «double sell» as I describe in my original comment. It would be like i.e. selling a signed copy of a book to one person (the NFT) and the underlying copyright (the sales contract) to another person.
Morally is complicated if they are not transparent about that from the start - the social expectations around this are not fully developed yet, but preventing the holder of the NFT from displaying the work (by selling an exclusive license to somebody else) would probably be seen as wrong.
If there's no legally binding contract attached that you won't do it, then it should be just fine to sell as many instances as you want, no? In the absence of a contract you're just buying a unique tag, not the work itself.
Yes, indeed. My question is if the NFT will be treated as a valid proof of ownership in a legal battle. I’m guessing it would hold some validity, but lose against a well-written sales contract.
You're either transferring ownership of the copyright or not. Hopefully that's clear when they're traded otherwise neither party will have any idea if they're getting completely ripped off or not. If it's not clear then you probably aren't. Though, some countries' copyright laws allow ownership to be transferred without being explicit about it through the (imo yucky) commissioned work exception.
freeCodeCamp did a survey amongst people learning to code, and 3 out of 4 used YouTube to learn. And that didn't even include other video sources.
In Stack Overflow's 2020 survey, over 50% of respondents said they use video tutorials when they are stuck.
It's probably only one component of the learning process, though, as I assume that most code beginners read articles/docs as well. But an important one.
You can already sign up, create casts, add them to a playlist, and share it with your students. That won’t cost you a dime.
However, the current version of Scrimba isn’t really tailored for this B2B use-case, as I can imagine you’d want to be able to follow students’ progress and perhaps even get assgnments from them?
Thank you, I will sign up and explore more, I'm very interested because I feel the social responsibility to leave some legacy, I can educate 100 people before I retire as professional software developer.
RE: exactly, what you call the student metadata metrics and ways to detect who/what/when to reinforce.
Yes, we are going to add backend, but it’s more complicated, as we can’t execute the backend code in the browser.
Btw, if anyone thinks that adding backend support to Scrimba sounds like an interesting problem to work on, please let us know (per@scrimba.com) as we’re looking for new developers to join our team :)
Thanks for this great feedback! As for the ‘disappearing code’, you could have gotten back to it by clicking the yellow dot on the timeline. We should obviously make this much clearer.
We’ll make sure to cancel the auto-advance as well if a user starts interacting with the code.
As for DS topics: we’ll first add general backend topics, but DS would be natural to venture into after that.
Thanks! We're soon going to start a new newsletter which will give people one coding challenge per week. It's inspired by the one-week email course we did, as people seemed to like it a lot :)
I'm the founder of Scrimba.com, an interactive code-learning platform. We went almost two years from when we launched our very first free course until we launched our very first paid course. In the meanwhile, we planned the "perfect" business model and also pivoted to a Teams-based product for a while.
Had I just dared to put up a pricing wall in front of our second course instead, we'd have gotten the signal we needed from the market much earlier. Once we started getting revenue, everything else became a lot easier (what to invest more in, which courses to prioritise, what to do in general).