I've had a few folks already ask if we would build an in-house version for tech onboarding. It's an interesting idea!

Cool to know other companies are already building things like this in-house. Thanks!

Yeah we're definitely focused more on the supply side right now!

We want to be the easiest tool for developers to create awesome and engaging courses.

In the future, as we start getting more courses published, I imagine we will probably swap the home page to be more course taker focused.

Thanks! Yeah we've heard that same type of sentiment from lots of folks.

Definitely need the feedback loop to learn programming skills effectively.

The way I finally got vim to stick was by integrating it into my existing development workflow.

I had tried to go all in on vim a few times but the learning curve always made me feel less productive than working in VS Code.

After adding the vim extension in VS code and gradually learning new commands, it stuck.

Very happy to have learned vim but I agree that the learning curve is pretty steep usually. It was frustrating enough that I published an interactive vim course that helps people get over the hurdle.

Ah sorry about that. The course is aimed more at people new to vim.

Good feedback around needing better explanations of the verbs and nouns. I try to teach it through the examples but maybe I could add a better explanation :)

I think in the future I’ll add more lessons but it might be a while.

I’d be happy to refund you or upgrade you for free (when the new lessons are available) if you want to email me. My email is at the bottom of the vim home page.

Vim tutor is great :) I used it myself when I was learning

It’s a React app and the code editor is an open source component called Ace. There is a vim plugin for Ace that I use

It’s doing pretty good so far! Around $700MRR right now and I launched it a bit over a month ago.

Users seem to enjoy the lesson authoring tool!

It’s fun building things for developers.

Seeing the stripe notifications roll in when an author sells their own course feels pretty amazing.

Making that first $8 was life changing for me. I hope I can bring that to other devs too :)

"MRR"

If I may ask, your $25 seems to be a one-time fee; do you incur any recurring revenue from already-signed-up users?

Ah sorry for the confusion. I think the poster was referring to my new product Slip (the site this blog is on).

vim.so is $25 one time fee.

Slip is a subscription

I definitely didn’t become rich from vim.so but it’s made a huge impact on my life.

It’s brought me more opportunities than any resume I’ve ever wrote.

It paid off my CC debt.

It’s connected me to some really interesting people.

It gave me the idea for my current startup which is growing nicely so far.

Couldn’t be happier with the outcome :)

Thanks! It doesn’t really make sense to be a subscription, so it’s not. Devs seem to like that they can just pay once for it too. Win win