Show HN: Bootstrap In Practice, my ebook for starters

I mostly write native apps, but happen to have started to make a website for the first time in several years the other day. Having decided to start with Bootstrap, I spent at least an hour chasing down blog posts about using Bootstrap, and then googling to see how things had changed since v2, how people do X and Y, finding conflicting opinions of unknown provenance, etc etc... and was expecting to have to do more of that to finish getting up to speed with Bootstrap (especially since I'm starting with v3 and most of the info on the inter web tubes pertains to v2).

So of course I bought this book. In order to be a worthwhile investment, all it has to do is save me from the hassle having to do that again, one single time. Perusing the site it really looks like it will. Sold!

To the author: For a book with plenty of substitutes (as opposed to a presumably specialized SaaS product), I think it's much more likely that the demand curve is extremely elastic, meaning that as price decreases, quantity sold increases much more than enough to compensate for lower total revenue. And since marginal cost of each unit sold is effectively zero, this is all profit.

Add in the fact that since you're early to the party, you could acquire these customers before substitute products hit the market. By the time they do, you could be the established product.

I think Two Scoops of Django [1] got it right. They priced it to move. I bought it as an impulse purchase when they were in beta, and absolutely loved it. I can tell that many, many other people did the same, because I see it cited as an authority all the time on StackOverflow. It's up to "full price" now, but it's still affordable.

[1] https://django.2scoops.org/

I wrote the book exactly to help who finds the official documentation too difficult to grasp as a whole.

I was in that very situation two years ago when I started with Bootstrap, and I thought that people out there will be in the same situation starting with Bootstrap 3 now.

http://www.williamghelfi.com/blog/2013/09/06/bootstrap-in-pr...

Also, I think the best use of the book is to read it on a PC / Laptop and copy/paste to try the examples as you go :)

But, as always, your mileage may vary!

Maybe I just have to do it and live with it :)

On the other hand, I recently searched for "bootstrap 3 grid" and "bootstrap landing" and was amazingly surprised to be on first and second place. That really means a lot to me, because even with the ebook I wanted to share what I learned and be helpful to someone.