Show HN: Swift Guides – like RailsCasts for Swift | Hacker News Reader

Show HN: Swift Guides – like RailsCasts for Swift

swiftguides.io

11 pointszrail11 comments

When I was making my morning coffee today, I asked myself: "How quickly will a $9/month video service for learning Swift appear?" I thought three days, so I was wrong.

This is entirely too opportunistic for my tastes because:

1. There isn't even any content yet.

2. Swift came out yesterday, what the hell makes you an authority? (yes, I know most of the language features aren't ground breaking, but still)

3. I imagine the people able to successfully teach Swift will also have great knowledge of the iOS/OS X APIs. I'd trust an existing Objective-C based learning tool way more than this one.

Is this anything else than profiteering spam?

If they actually make courses, yes it is a real product. If not, then yes profiteering spam. Give them a little benefit of the doubt, but if you doubt too much, don't give em your email.

That's the point - they are not making product, it's just "coming soon".

Everybody talks about "hustle" and how great it is - this guy seems like he's actually doing it.

Hey guys,

In case you missed it, Swift Guides will be taking contributions. Once pro accounts are up and running we'll be doing a really generous revenue sharing deal for contributors. If you'd like to publish on Swift Guides just check the checkbox when you sign up for the list and I'll contact you directly.

http://www.swiftguides.io/contribute

I found an error in your copy on the contribute[0] page:

"...Sign up for the mailing list to be notified when Stripe Guides is ready for contributors to start adding content."

That should probably be Swift instead of Stripe.

0 - http://www.swiftguides.io/contribute

Fixed! Thanks.

Might be a good use case for Penflip (https://www.penflip.com/), which is like GitHub for writing.

A Swift Korean translation effort popped up this morning, and is in full swing: https://www.penflip.com/jjuakim/swift-korean

Disclosure: I'm the Penflip developer

The language just came out to the public yesterday, how can anyone start giving classes on this stuff? (Unless I'm mistaken, please correct me)

It just came out yesterday and they spent their time doing this instead of learning the language

Reply on news.ycombinator.com