Aside, imagine if they decided to charge for Google Maps today, the shear loss of income for every physical location would be incredible.
Decent coloring systems use a few colors to structure the code/data/ui and that’s it. Nobody needs these hundreds of accents, it’s just a component of upselling.
A Color Theme subscription, this feels like a joke to me. I can get custom fonts and styles, but colors … and not even a new theme but a „remastered“ version …
Edit: Nope, using Dracula
$10/yr for the first year, $8 for the second, $6 for the third year and onwards uninterrupted.
$1/$0.80/$0.60 per month for the first/second/third year uninterrupted.
I paid for the VS Code theme. I will be passing on this.
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/26007-monokai-pro/prici...
I've ran many IDEs and text editors, I don't think any of them doesn't have a monokai named theme, exact match or not.
That said I find it difficult to derive a wage from a theme this popular and this widespread already. Or even for a theme alone. That said, I'm sure you'll find some customers.
I couldn't find at first glance what "pro" features were worth my hard earned money? Was it because the IDE shell itself would follow the theme?
The market, of course, and not the initially and loud naysayers will decide. So many things that we never thought would take off eventually did.
When you create a product, there are many different sorts of ways to make income:
* just give it away (no income)
* donations (I hear this has low income rates)
* one time fee (usually relatively high price and cost-of-entry for the buyer)
* subscription (lower cost of entry for the buyer, recurring income, easy-to-forget, facilitating continued revenue stream)
* free + money-making-gimmick / loot boxes / season pass / pay-per-key / horse armor (free cost of entry for the buyer, gamble for the developer, potentially source of HUGE returns, see: Fortnite, League of Legends, and so on)
Should be interesting to see the results. Will you be sharing those in the coming future, maybe, to see how this experiment goes?
I understand it's uncommon practice to ask a fee for a set of colors. The reality is that making a theme and keeping it up to date is not trivial. A color theme, custom icon graphics and IDE config, along with code to glue it all together when you switch filters does take some time to make. And the codebase is different for each editor (Sublime: Python, VSCode: JavaScript, Jetbrains: Kotlin). I think it's not unfair to ask for a small fee for this work.
And, I guess it's also worth asking: would it be reasonable / possible to offer update packs / update prices for people fixing it? Or do you think there'd be even less return on that?
I will trial it for a bit and if I like it will definitely subscribe. Have you considered adding some premium features to help justify the subscription?
But we don’t sell commits anymore, you have to buy the pull, push and commit bundle.
Sure, but what does it do? The website doesn't say at all, only including some screenshots of it in action.
WTF?
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The comments here clear that up, saying it's just a theme. That should be clearly communicated from the website itself though. ;)
If so? Fair enough, a very small ask for a very useful thing.
If not? Fuck your own face.
OPs HN profile says: "Author of the original Monokai color scheme and its successor https://monokai.pro"
So i guess, not his face to be f*@%#!
Sometimes it's worth to invest minimal effort into "research" before commenting aggressively.