4 comments

  • tomstoms 1568 days ago
    So I have to pay to solve other peoples’ problems?
    • applechen777 1568 days ago
      These tasks are created by us from square one. It helps people really learn important backend and frontend engineering skills.
      • mc3 1568 days ago
        Then the show HN title is a bit confusing / misleading.
        • applechen777 1567 days ago
          Yea, that makes sense. It's hard to think of a one-liner to accurately describe what Real Dev is about.
      • tomstoms 1567 days ago
        How are they real world problems?
        • applechen777 1567 days ago
          We made these projects based on work that we did in companies and day-to-day software engineering work. The idea is to inspire engineers to learn real skills by getting their hands dirty.
          • tomstoms 1564 days ago
            Ok. I think the headline communicates something different.
  • onefuncman 1568 days ago
    What's the logic behind the current pricing model? Shouldn't you derive much greater LTV from a subscription model?

    Also, isn't it too early to monetize? Don't you want to accrue users before introducing premium?

    For a Show HN I would have expected the ability to create tasks out of the box.

    Also, instead of discouraging users from sharing code, you should embrace it via curation -- let people see other's solutions after they've submitted a solution of sufficient grade, let people code review each other's solutions, lots of low hanging fruit there that could be as simple as some automation on top of a private Github organization.

    • applechen777 1568 days ago
      We have launched it for a while. Thanks for the feedback. The reason we don't show others' solution beforehand it's because it will demotivate people to think hard and solve problems.
  • McDev 1568 days ago
    >If you're a company agreeing that philosophy, we would love to connect. Join us by contributing a task, or let us know about your ideas.

    Do these companies who "contribute" tasks get to see the source code for the submissions?

    • applechen777 1568 days ago
      That's an old model that we used to plan to work with companies to contribute. Now we're focusing on self-learning and want to help people learn and master real engineering skills.
  • sergiotapia 1569 days ago
    A little more information would be great. Very bare bones website. Sounds like something my wife who's learning to code would enjoy but I have no idea what this really is.
    • applechen777 1569 days ago
      Interesting. Seems like you're an engineer, how would you learn new technology in practice?

      The website aims to provide a list of projects for people to learn these skills (like uploading a file to AWS).