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Comment by yewenjie | Hacker News Reader

Sounds cool but without being able to actually try a full course out, there is no way to know if I'll enjoy it.

Maybe they should make one course free to use like create your own git and access to other would be payed.

Agreed, learning styles are different for everyone, and it's important to be able to try things out. We've added a 3-day trial for you to experience what it's like — looking forward to seeing you on the leaderboard!

What is you're "Hello, world... again" project? for the trial?

Maybe you have a small trial project for each language which you support, allowing for a quick evaluation with real results?

I think doing the first 2-3 stages of any course is usually a good enough to understand the core for the learning experience. The later stages tend to get more involved (e.g the last stage of Git & SQLite are rather tricky for most).

Good suggestion regarding having trial projects for every language, we'll consider that.

The 3-day trial is only on $700 annual memberships though! I'd very much try this out on a 3-day trial if it's then only $70 a month afterwards. $700 in one go means I have to ask the wife and you'll miss out on a sale there ;)

Argh, I'm so sorry, our pricing page should have been clearer (fixed now).

The trial is available on all plans, so no need to ask the wife!

Haha cool, then you have a sale later today :)

I felt the same too. A 3-day trial is not enough to try out complex software.

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