dnfriedman

11 lat temudiscuss

We're big users of both Slack + Screenhero at Thinkful for our students communicating with each other in real time (Slack) and pair programming with mentors (Screenhero). We were even spec'ing a feature to make Screenhero the only tool for mentor sessions. Congrats to the Screenhero team – you built a great product and deserve this, but it's sad we'll have to switch to another product. We can't wait months to have something available, and it's not clear the new features will do what we need :/

dnfriedman

13 lat temudiscuss

That makes sense – the main thing that bothered me actually is that I didn't (and still don't) know when to ask for discounts. Even if you said discounts vary, but we'll look automatically look at what we can offer when you hit the following sums... that would be great.

dnfriedman

13 lat temudiscuss

This is actually one of the very few things that has bothered me about Stripe – they don't make their volume pricing public (Amazon does, now Balanced does). We've had to email when we hit larger sums to get pricing reduced.

Edit: although to be fair, I asked them about this, and they said their processing costs vary user to user, so they don't have a simple matrix (rather, they apply discounts based on the costs associated with an account). That's probably the best possible answer short of a pricing matrix...

dnfriedman

13 lat temudiscuss

Ha, thanks. We did put the signup form at the end so it didn't put too much pressure on the signup. We'd love to check out other examples of how to do that well if you have any?

dnfriedman

13 lat temudiscuss

Do you still think everything in that post holds? Would be curious to read an update from two years later. A number of changes seem to be happening much faster than anyone was predicting (i.e. adoption of MOOC's, the pending adoption of online into traditional universities). I'm curious if that would have you changing any of your theses.

dnfriedman

13 lat temudiscuss

Those are our dimes you're talking about – get back to work! :)

We're lucky to have you.

dnfriedman

13 lat temudiscuss

Congrats victor and team!

dnfriedman

13 lat temudiscuss

New York, NY. Full-time.

We're hiring a lead engineer to build the future of programming education at Thinkful (thinkful.com). We work with students looking to advance their careers, pairing each with a mentor and a group of peers to work with as they learn web development.

We use python and angular.js, but you don't need experience with both to succeed here. It's more important that you care about our students and their success.

Email me if you're interested: dan at thinkful dot com

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