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Cool, just joined ✨
Awesome upgrade! 🥳
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Congrats, this has a lot of potential ++
Great stuff @ben! I can't wait to see how this evolves.
It would be super awesome to see some GenAI suggestions in the post editor for Dev++ content creators. Maybe simple suggestions for title or tag improvements based on the content in the editor?
Good idea. A big reason for putting this in a membership is so that any GenAI integrations can leverage the highest quality models available vs if it were general-availability we'd have to go super minimal.
So look forward to some really great implementations of stuff like this!
Of course this will also help real people write most effectively for the community with useful tools like this vs spam AI we hope to mitigate.
Yes, exactly!
Oh god, please no
Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI
Researchers have found that including the words "artificial intelligence" in product marketing is a major turn-off for consumers.
Right? No, thank you.
One minor issue with the copy on the landing page:
Nice spot, we'll fix that now.
The deals are not in my interest for now, but I love this community and I'd love to see how this evolves. Acquiring this to support dev.to!
I'm glad to see this initiative from DEV.
As other people here have pointed out, the current perks are of very limited value. Personally, I will not use any of the partner offerings.
However, every startup and initiative must start somewhere, and I think you have packaged it quite well for a first time tryout. I hope to see this growing, and that's my reason to subscribe to this, not only to support DEV, but also to support DEV++.
Awesome! 👏
Dev++: So, is this another language we gotta learn? Or, is it the mythical 100X dev (10X is no longer the ceiling now).
Jokes apart, congrats on the launch. Wish it is a grand success. 🙏
1000000x developer actually
Congrats on the milestone! Would be cool if members or organizations could gift memberships. Before the days of Twitter, a random gift of gold was inspiring.
Interesting idea!
@ben looking forword to see it. As I precedently mentioned, this platform helps me a lot. As I don't own developer background journey, I harness wisely main tasks here. Keep pushing up.
Great initiative! Kudos to the entire DEV team!
++ Any annual pricing :) will it go down further during Cyber Monday :)
Interesting you should ask!
We don't have the annual price listed yet officially on the page, but it is live and can be accessed via this link.
The annual price — with early-bird special — is a reduced rate of $78 USD per year (or $6.50/month averaged out vs $8 for monthly). Just like the other early-bird prices, if you sign up with this you are locked in as long as you stay subscribed.
We will soon update the landing pages to have this as an option, but want to do so carefully so it is not confusing.
DEV++ will not go down further on Cyber Monday. This is the lowest we could go for a wide discount — the key is getting in now before the price increases, however we would like to work out a referral program where you could get a discount for referring others.
Thank you for the clarification.
Sounds like a deal!
Good Start 👌 All the Best keep going.
How I can share dev special deal with you guys.
Hi,
Just my two cents about this : For me personally (as an employed senior developer) I really fail to see the value in this : I have zero interest in any of the 8 current deals, first because they don't align with our current infrastructure or my needs, but more importantly because if we need a SaaS it will have to be vetted and bought by my employer, not by me personally, so even if I had a use for Neon, Replit, Devzero or Neurelo I wouldn't be able to use those deals.
And if you take away the deals, it's really hard to justify the $8 a month for the dev.to perks alone. I just subscribed, but it's really only to support dev.to, not because of the perks.
I hope it finds it's audience though, I suspect it's much better value for hobbyists, indie devs and people trying to start a career.
It looks like we are about to lock in our 9th Deal as of this morning, looking forward to adding it soon. 😊
How do vendors get involved?
Fill out this form and let us know it's about DEV++
dev.to/advertise
Deals aren't incredibly relevant - particularly since Microsoft MVPs have a number of benefits at places, but I love supporting Dev.to and the customized feed is interesting as well. I've signed up.
Thank you!
Ben, you know the difference dev has made to me the past half decade. Happy to support it.
I'm glad to see dev.to involving to help the community, and adding a new financial channel to improve the platform.
As many comment noted, I don't see value on the current deal, but It will definitely help beginners and hobbyists. Personally I considered the subscription as the "Blue checkmark on Twitter" but for Dev. I'll not take it for the moment but definitely will, if it brings value that I need.
Great point.
Congrats on the launch of DEV++!
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This is pretty neat!
Though I'm also interested to know how you put some content in boxes. :D
Sorry this has not yet been added to the editor guide, but will soon.
Btw, are there any other "tags" like this one?
This does not seem to be markdown. Could you tell me what this is called? I'll search for more (if any).
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We call these "embeds". They use liquid syntax but is not a full use of liquid which is a full templating language.
Not quite markdown, but markdown is a pretty loose idea and it's common to extend it in ways like this
Thank you for the info!
Thank you for sharing this trick! 💗
How can I not join? :D
Do you plan to add other payment options than credit card (I don't own) and cash app (not available outside U.S.)?
Yes, looking into it.
Cool, I too just joined
Great Update!!. I hope the price adjusted too with the developing country.
I hate to be negative, but what?
I'd be curious to know what other monetization structures were suggested and declined in favor of this. "Early-bird" pricing is $8/mo? What could you possibly raise that to based on the near-zero promised ROI paid features? Basic filtering, ex post facto permission to spam, and a badge. No timeline or roadmap of additional features.
Since this an early bird i want to propose an option for later-on subscription models. While, anyone would like to have a reduction on subscriptions, be it event-wise or due to longlasting yearly or n-year subscriptions, there is one specific type i very very rarely see in the wild, namely monthly subscriptions with almost the reduction of cost given in a yearly sub, namely for: disabled people and/or people with low-income status. I am happy that many service providers now at least consider it on direct request. But sadly almost no service provider offers this by default. The thing is this is not country-specific, as the cost of maintenance for severely disabled people is often not allowing to finance a yearly sub. I would like to see you considering this as a niche offer - requiring official actual documents is totally fine in this case. An awkwardly unexpected example is Amazon Prime doing such an offer for yearly subs at half the price. Still a monthly option would be very helpful. Hope that helps. In any case, i am eager to see how your program develops!
Chiming in related to the Forem side of things, if I want to do a membership tier similar to Dev++ on a Forem instance, is the backend code relating to this available now under a source-available license (coughs in SSPL or GitLab EE license terms) or not yet?
Also, this is a must-have for me but currently, I can't afford it because of the currency conversion mess between PHP and USD, among other things, but congrats nonetheless.
Yup! It all works and is generalized. It requires stripe be hooked up.
Some parts of it are hardcoded for the moment but that will soon be generalized.
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US$ 8 per month seems a nice deal. But this mean that non-paid users won't get notifications anymore? Mine haven't updated since tuesday....
Could y’all add an ad-free tier?
So if I understand this, I just get a better free trail, but still have to pay when it ends, and have to pay on dev, and after that again on other sites (with -50%)
Some of the deals are trials, some are forever discounts. It’s a deal-by-deal basis.
I only see "extended free trail", "X time free" and "X free X" (correct me if I'm wrong)
Im new -ish to dev.to and am JUST getting used to this site... now there more!!!! AHHHHHH!
Cool✨
I'm sceptical about the usefulness of the "exclusive partner discounts", but I'll keep an eye out.. 🤞🏼
Always improving uhn?
Waiting for DEV# 😃
sounds cool