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WorkOS doesn't really own the user management database. It's more like an agnostic API to connect with multiple IdPs through protocols like SAML and OIDC. Identity providers such as Okta, OneLogin, and Azure AD are the ones responsible for storing that data.

that's also one of my favorite parts ;)

unfortunately not, every Dracula theme is custom made

Dracula creator here...

I have a few thoughts on why this is such a popular theme:

1. Decentralized Contributors: every theme is maintained by a different person. There's no single point of failure when it comes to software maintainability.

2. Centralized Discoverability: most themes are scattered and disorganized. The cool thing about Dracula is that you can find everything in one place.

3. Transparency: on the website, you can see the number of views for each theme, who are the people behind them, how much sales were made. Everything is open, and that creates trust.

4. Constraints: Dracula is only available in dark mode, despite having TONS of requests to have a light theme as well. People complain about constraints (think of Twitter's 140 character limit), but constraints make good products.

5. Consistency: not only in terms of colors, but in terms of effort. The first Dracula theme was created in 2013, and the project has kept evolving since then.

6. Portability: developers want an environment that feels uniform. There's a real cost associated with context switch, so having a theme available for 227 apps across Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS is very important.

7. Branding: why make something boring when you can make it fun? The name, the logo, the icons, the visual aesthetics - it all counts.

8. Personal: the origin story described on the About page is extremely personal. For years I was afraid of making it public on the internet. Now I know that when you make yourself vulnerable, people feel connected.

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The idea is to keep you focused on the code logic itself. Comments are definitely important but they don't dictate behavior, that's why they are intentionally unobtrusive.

Glad you liked it! I come from a developing country (Brazil) and always had a hard time buying stuff from other countries.

Adding Purchasing Parity Power was a matter of principle to me.

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I actually registered a trademark for Dracula.

https://twitter.com/zenorocha/status/1407342343963951105

Hey everyone,

Dracula creator here!

Feel free to ask me anything, I'll try to respond every single comment.

Hey HN friends

Today I'm launching Dracula UI, a dark-first collection of UI components.

It's been 6 months since @nettofarah and I started working on this project and we're super excited about this next step.

I hope this can be helpful and that you build some gorgeous apps with it :)

Let me know if you have any questions!

I'm here to answer every single one of them.

I've looked into different resources to come up with my own numbers. This was a great reference: paritybar.com

Unfortunately I have zero insight about how many people spent their own money vs used their company budget to buy this.

I should definitely do a better job by creating a template and allowing people to use that to convince their bosses. This site is a good example of that: product-toolkit.com

Your post gave an interesting idea - a gallery of products that people can buy to spend their budgets in case they don't have ideas lol

Niiice! I can't get enough of that contrast and vibrant colors as well ;)

You're totally right. From the moment I published this post to now (15 hours period), I made $4,833.16 in sales, which is completely insane.

Dealing with the highs and, more importantly, the lows is what differentiates success from failure.

I implemented my own thing using Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, and Gumroad.

Now 160 countries have unique discounts based on their currency value and social climate.

It definitely took a lot of work not only from me, but also from many different open source contributors to get to this point. We are now at 164 themes which is absolutely crazy!

I'm so happy to hear you got to the checkout process. Thanks a lot for the support ;D

That's so nice! I agree with you that having to figure out each individual config is a LOT of work. There's also a high cognitive cost on switching context all the time, that's when a standardize work environment makes the most difference.

It's super hard to deal with that first refund. Every time I receive a request I get a little bit sad, but it is what it is.

Thank you so much Steve for the kind words.

I'm glad to hear that. Thanks!

This is a SUPER important topic. I don't think Dracula Pro would be as successful if it was a subscription. There's definitely a subscription fatigue going on, and people who invest on one-time purchase models will be able to benefit from that

Thank you so much :D

Good idea!

Thanks! Let me know if you need anything ;)

I'm glad this was helpful!

Same thing happened with me. I built this theme as an open source project and forgot it existed. People started to create different forks and port them to different platforms. One day I realized how big that was and decided to monetize. One year later 100k. Crazy!

That's actually annual. It's the total sales from February 2020 until February 2021.

I really like his take on recording a shot vs. recording a scene. Thanks for sharing!

Yes! There's a premium market for everything.

That's the whole point. If it inspires at least 1 person, then it was enough already.