You're probably thinking of https://codecrafters.io/. I've been meaning to check them out with my education stipend from work, just haven't had the time to devote to it.

So expensive IMO, only reason I'm avoiding it.

$83/mo or around $994 annually is crazy way too much for me. I hope them the best because I love that kind of content and want it to be more popular, but I will wait until a better priced option comes.

There's* a free plan allowing a stage daily. With current content (all languages, all stages) someone can do everything in <9mo. But challenges are same across languages. If only want to do challenges ("build X clone") once in one language can do it in <1.5mo.

*Saw in sibling comment this is recent addition. Without it, yeah, it may be a bit expensive for one person.

Same reason here, if i convert that value to my current currency it will be half of the living wage in my country

This is more than any software engineering learning subscription I have currently per month.

We now have a free tier, so you should be able to try it out :-)

Please consider similar pricing structure as JetBrains. If you pay for it, the price is X, but if your company pays for it, or you're somehow reimbursed for it, the price is 5X.

Do you provide educational licenses/pricing? It looks really interesting but I can't afford it as a student.

We do. Feel free to email me sarup@codecrafters.io

Will do, thank you for replying :)

It’s free, but isn’t it one lesson per day?

Correct. For many of our users, doing one stage per day is just the right amount of exercise (especially on the later stages — as it gets more challenging)

Not to by hyper critical but that is just not enough to support learning for more ambitious people. There are too many great learning communities that are way cheaper. I really hope you guys revise the pricing structure. At a $20mo price point, I know a ton of people that would buy it. At the current price point, well, it’s just people with a learning stipend at big corp that don’t like to buy books.

Great idea, but only accessible to the rich.

> only accessible to the rich

I think this is a bit much. I wouldn't buy it, but I think this is deep technical content that you might not stick on forever, and they need to pick a price for it. If it's too high or low they'll find out soon. No need for any other inputs than that.

Curious if anyone else has checked out their content yet? If so, hows the quality?

The idea is very good - the tests approach is effective and stimulating; they also provide a range of products to study/experiment with. However, I think that the approach to the learning material is "love it or hate it".

By design, the service doesn't provide any documentation; it provides references to existing technical documentation (of any kind, including blog posts).

Those who expect a focused introduction to each topic will find it very tedious or hard to proceed (for example, the SQLite exercise has important details buried in a very large and confusing webpage), and likely hate it; those who like the challenge of understanding loads of raw documentation will love it.

Sounds like I might as well not pay them a penny though if its research that I can do myself instead.

It's more complex than that. People may need stimulation in order to follow through a certain learning process.

Providing a structured path and (automated) test means can be stimulating, and can make the difference between (deciding to) learning something or not.

Some people are certainly entirely autonomous, but at the very least, there is a spectrum of need for stimulation when approaching a topic of study.

I get you, but, I can get subscriptions elsewhere with way more resources for significantly less.

AFAIK there are no other services that provide multiple languages, automated testing and team features, but if you know of any, it's certainly useful to report them in this thread.

Exercism is the closer service I can think of, but it's based on simple exercises, not real-world projects.

There are a few books that have a similar target (build X), but much narrower in scope (either a single language or pseudocode, and certainly no automated testing/team features).

I’d love a Manning project subscription but it doesn’t exist..

I have finished their build your own Redis exercise. It is very well organized and there are hints/discord groups in which you get sufficient help if you make the effort.

This model is great for someone who loses patience with all the groundwork setup.

However, I do agree that the next leg is taking this MVP/Prototype level to production and ideally sell it as a real alternative to the commercial version of Redis.

Yes, that's the one. Thank you.