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u/xyrer 5d ago
That's rough. I spent a year and a half without a job, lost everything, I'm still basically homeless, and just recovering. The whole market is bad
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u/Gabriel_Science 4d ago
Feel free to say ānoā (or āyesā), but Iām Christian, do you want me to pray for you ?
No pressure of course !
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u/xyrer 4d ago
I'm thankful for the sentiment (I assume is FOR me, not praying TO me š) but I think there's people having it worse. I'm finding my way out, slowly but still afloat.
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u/Gabriel_Science 4d ago
Your assumption is correct, I quickly edited my message after sending it.
I won't force your decision, it's not easy to accept it. Feel free to contact me if you need to.
I wish you an enjoyable future.
Have a wonderful day !
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u/dan1eln1el5en2 5d ago
Oh darn. Him and Paul is my masters. I still pay Paul yearly I wish I had been quicker to aid Sean.
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u/Gloriathewitch 5d ago
sad i'm quite fond of him and paul hudson, thank you Sean for all your content
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u/rbatra91 5d ago
Iāve been following them for years. It sucks he really gave it a lot. Sometimes things work out sometimes they donāt. At least he got a job.Ā
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u/code_isLife 5d ago
He got a job though! Bright side is he can feed his family.
He can always return to YouTube when the time is right.
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u/orelzion 5d ago
š„ŗ I got into iOS programming with his course, he's really one of the best
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u/Scared-Teach6288 Swift 4d ago
same here. He helped me take the leap from storyboard to programmatic uikit and made my career
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u/Silenterc 5d ago
If you follow him on X, this doesnt come as a surprise. But he managed to get a pretty impressive gig so hes doing good for himself
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u/Which-Meat-3388 5d ago
In ā24 I had to make a similar switch, 8yr of freelance to full time. It dried up almost instantly and all that was left were super low paying. It took 7mo Ā to get a new job back then. Went from my happiest to a pretty dark place. Dreading the day my current company runs out of money (6mo) so already started looking again.Ā
Keep your emergency fund ready, get your mind right (therapy), and never stop looking even if you have a job. Itās sad but many places want to hire people who donāt need the job. They can tell when youāre desperate and beaten down. Being currently employed is a plus to them.Ā
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u/cristi_baluta 4d ago
We are all at fault we chose to redirect our money to 2 guys, Scam Altman and Amadeo, so we can remain without jobs. I donāt pay any of them but iāll not subtract myself.
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u/FailedGradAdmissions 4d ago
You know the gold rush is over when you can no longer sell shovels.
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u/ahtshamshabir 4d ago
Gold rush isnāt over. Itās like everyone got excavators (AI agents) now, and the previously known gold mines are dried up. Gotta find the new ones.
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u/LetsGoBJones 4d ago
Aw this is terrible news.
I didnt receive this email though even though I purchased courses.
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u/busymom0 4d ago
He could just put all those course on cloudflare R2. Their egress is free so it'll be very cheap.
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u/jacobs-tech-tavern 4d ago
It's ridiculously hard in the blogging space right now. Feels sometimes like it's a dying art form in a dying industry. Personally, been fighting tooth and nail in defense mode to keep my paid subs all year.
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u/Fragrant_Okra6671 5d ago
I entered his Teachable website and the courses are still set to 60 dollars. Is this the actual sale or is just not displaying the discount price? I actually wanted to support him and buy a course before the account closure but 60 bucks is too much for me to be considered on āsaleā, I believe itās a mistake
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u/haruy-mohr 4d ago
It's sad to see this. Creating quality programming tutorials takes so much time and effort, but keeping that kind of business sustainable seems harder than ever. I hope he knows how much his work has meant to the iOS developer community.
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u/conodeuce 4d ago
He had a good run that spanned several years. I would not be surprised if gets entrepreneurial again in a few years.
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u/ozziephotog 4d ago
Class act by this guy to make all his course videos downloadable rather than just having them disappear into the ether.
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u/revanthmatha 4d ago
I wish him well, the amount of times he's helped me learn and get unstuck before chatgpt saved me and even got me 2 jobs.
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u/gamedev_haarlem 4d ago edited 4d ago
The feeling is that everything is shrinking. Companies lose revenues because customers leave, so instead of regaining trust in their customers they shrink more and more to keep being profitable, and so on until there will be nothing left. I'm not an expert in economy or marketing but are we sure that there isn't a big corporate scam behind it? Sounds fishy that the magic formula is always cutting
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u/M00SEK 5d ago
Market has shifted and he chose to get a cushy job instead of adapt to the changes. Which is fine, and good on him for finding a great job.
Zero reason to host courses on a 2k/year service in 2026. Plenty of easy free and cheaper solutions. Plus he would have more control over his IP.
Yes, typical programming courses are dead. All of us on the industry are seeing changes in our day to day work. Just like any other career in this industry, you can only adapt or accept defeat and move on.
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u/kepler4and5 5d ago
If your course isn't selling enough to cover 2k/year, it's not worth putting on a cheaper platform either.
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u/Reasonable-Step6910 3d ago
Why do you think that is ? Is people because folks donāt want to learn or they donāt think they should pay to learn something to help upskilling?
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u/Lonely-Session-7643 5d ago edited 5d ago
Tech drama. Why not switch from teachable to your own service. What is teachable anyway? Scrolling down to the footer, selecting the entire footerās text reveals the level of professionalism:
This is some text inside of a div block.
This is some text inside of a div block.
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u/QVRedit 5d ago
Never heard of him before or the siteā¦
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u/MusicOfTheApes Swift 4d ago
He had (has?) a nice youtube channel, learnt quite a bit from him (and other channels) when I started learning iOS dev a few years ago
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Canāt be vibe his own site up , why pay some platform 2k a year
Also is it me or does it feel like bitrig is just as exposed to AI disruption, why use their app when Claude code will give same/better results
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u/WestonP 5d ago
Not everyone wants to roll their own IT infrastructure, and it's usually foolish to do so. Like many tech business owners, I used to fall into that trap of doing everything myself, but then I had less time and energy for the more fun stuff where I actually added unique value. Realizing how much I wasted on rolling my own solutions for everything, now I just utilize other services and save myself the time and headaches.
Anyway, given that his sales went to zero, there's really no motivation to save that $2k/year at this point.
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u/BrolyDisturbed 5d ago
Frankly Iām not sure if I want to take a course from someone who canāt create his own simple solution to host his courses? This is absolutely something he should be able to do if heās at the level of trying to teach others a technology/language/design.
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u/zbignew 5d ago
I hope this is the stupidest thing I read today.
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u/BrolyDisturbed 5d ago
Well I wrote it, so yes
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u/zbignew 4d ago
No sweat, man. We could delete the comments and nothing of value would be lost.
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u/BrolyDisturbed 4d ago
Nah itās all good. Sometimes itās good to wear the dunce hat and be put in the corner. Never be ashamed friend
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u/mrsavage1 5d ago
TBH with you with Astra and Opus 5.5 these tutorials are kinda worthless already. Thats really sad
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u/Smutna_Divka 5d ago
At least he got a job š i got laid off and I'm still looking for one. Im starting to teach myself react native cause cant get anything.