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Lol, it’s hilarious how decent programmers can very feasibly make 300k+ a year, but somehow, a course that’s selling point is to make you more decent is too expensive at $30 a month. That’s literally skipping a single night of eating out.

If you’re point is that you can’t trust the program to deliver, that’s valid, but make sure to make the judgement call AFTER you check out their free content first.

Honestly? I’d argue that they should be charging more. The people who are truly interested in investing in long term learning generally have a higher willingness to pay, while everyone else will balk at anything that isn’t free.




Would I be interested in learning about programming from a website that offers to learn me more by

> I built this one-of-a-kind learning platform to give you dopamine hits like XP and meme prizes for every little accomplishment

if I already made 300K a year? (Ridiculous, by the way.) No, I would not. At least I would hope that I would be more serious and dedicated.


I do technically work as a programmer but I make far less than 300k and I'm generally happy with where I am. I mostly program as a hobby so that's the perspective I was coming from. I can see why they would charge more if this is meant as a professional skills development service where people expect to get returns for their time and money spent. I just thought it would be cool to learn react so I can make hobby sites easier and that's not worth $30 to me.


> it’s hilarious how decent programmers can very feasibly make 300k+ a year

It’s hilarious that you think programmers who make 300k+ a year need resources such as this one.




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