mrborgen

Good question! Expanding from client-side JS to Node.js is our first step in that direction. We considered server-side execution for all languages but chose WebContainers instead, as it’s a better fit for us when teaching fullstack web dev, and easier to maintain.

That said, our new IDE is built to easily support server-side execution down the line.

Thanks! Not sure I fully understand — do you mean using our DOM recorder on other web apps instead of our IDE? In theory, yes, we’ve used it on third-party sites in previous iterations of Scrimba.

But there are some limitations, as certain HTML elements (like native dropdowns, date pickers, canvas etc) are rendered outside the DOM and thus can’t be recorded.

Thank you so much! That kind of word-of-mouth is the reason we’ve been able to grow without raising a ton of money .

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 :)

Charge for our product.

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).

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.

The NFTs are meant to prove ownership over digital items, aren’t they?

Not ownership as in «I am the only one who can share this GIF in Facebook», but as in «I own the copyright to this GIF».

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.

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?

Glad you like it! We're working on fixing the Firefox problems btw, sorry about that!

That is very very nice of you. Thank you again!

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.

No, but we’ve considered open sourcing it, so we might do it one day.

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?

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.

We only support subscriptions at this point, not one-off sales.

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 :)

Not at the moment unfortunately.

Wow, thank you so much for that awesome blog post! It's thanks to acts like that we've been able to keep the wheels going at Scrimba the last year, as we haven't had money to spend on paid advertising, so we've had to rely on organic growth.

I totally agree that getting your first job is one of the hardest things about the process. Which is why we've dedicated an entire module in the Frontend Developer Career Path to "Getting Hired". At our current price point though ($19/month), we're not able to do any hand-holding to help people get their first job (which tends to require that). But we are going to launch price tiers which will allow us to give more career help, as the perfect school IMO definitely ensures that you get a job at the end :)

Actually, anyone who wants can create Scrimba screencasts, group them in a playlist and share them with e.g. their class or community.

If you need any help to get started, just ping me at per@scrimba.com :)

Thanks! Scrimba itself isn’t open source, but we have considered is, so maybe we’ll do it sometime in the future :)

The language it’s written in is fully open source (created by our CTO, Sindre). You can learn more about it here: https://imba.io

That makes me very happy to hear! :D

Thanks a lot! A new version of Imba is about to be launched soon btw, which features a much better developer experience :)

I wish there was a way to connect both PayPal and Stripe revenue, as we make about half our revenue through each of these payments processors. I can imagine a lot of other companies are in similar situations.

Awesome! Just installed it, looking forward to seeing how it works.

Hey all,

Always sad to see good products shutting down. Also a bit frightening as I'm about to enter this same market, hehe.

I want to mention what we're building in case anyone looks for alternatives in this thread.

It's called GitSpeak and it's a project management tool which prioritizes developers first. Our goal is to create a PM tool that devs actually enjoy working with, and which saves them time rather than eat time.

Some of our features include multi-repo views, boards, a rich text editor and a neat screencasting option for code reviews, docs, and onboarding. Plus, we are going to be the fastest one out there (we're using Imba.io to build the tool btw).

Check it out here if you're interested:

https://gitspeak.com/

Hey, we're still in beta, and not interested in exposing the tool on HN yet, so please don't upvote this one. We're going to do a Show HN at some point.

What would you like to know about our company?

The accounting for Norwegian companies are public, ours can be found here:

https://www.proff.no/selskap/scrimba-as/oslo/internettdesign...

We're two co-founders, Sindre and I. Our Twitter profiles are here:

https://twitter.com/perborgen https://twitter.com/sindreaars

If you actually spend some time researching, you'll find plenty of information about us and the company.

As for "collecting VC money" we've raised around $250K from angel investors and one Norwegian VC and we've also gotten a loan (which we're partly personally reliable for) from Innovation Norway.

Feel free to ask if you'd like more info.