Hi there, welcome to ThinkCode.TV’s newly created blog. We will be using this space to share updates regarding what we’re working on, as well as a means of communicating directly with, and receiving feedback from, you. In the mix, we’ll thrown in posts that can be of interest to other startups or programmers in general. Make sure you grab our feed so as not to miss anything.
ThinkCode.TV is a very ambitious project, that was started by three professional programmers with a deep rooted passion for the open source world, programming and teaching. We strongly believe that producing top-notch programming screencasts and courses authored by experts is going to be a sustainable business, a useful service for the development community, and the ideal delivery method for teaching the craft of programming in this day and age.
We also believe that these points can be achieved by maintaining the utmost respect towards our authors and customers. As a result of this belief, our authors will always receive a more than fair share for their work. Likewise, we believe in the honesty of our audience, and would never disrespect our customers by imposing software limits on how they watch the videos they’ve paid for. Hence, we’ll offer our customers affordable, DRM-free content in several handy formats, including the open and royalty-free format Ogg/Theora. The ThinkCode.TV alien wouldn’t have it in any other way. ;-)
Furthermore, for each course (a series of screencasts) we’ll give away the first episode in its entirety through the BitTorrent protocol for free. This way a potential buyer will be able to better gauge the value of a given course, before committing to purchasing the whole thing. We expect to release further material here and there for free, even though the bulk of our content will most likely be for sale.
We are fully aware that a startup’s fate is often written by the many small scale decisions made on a day-to-day basis, and when it came to deciding whether we should start a blog before our site went live, Marco, Piergiuliano and I, unanimously agreed that opening up a means of communication as soon as possible was the way to go. It’s our “open” spirit. In fact, through this blog we’ll be able to publicly track our progress and even involve you in our decision making process.
Stay tuned and please join the conversation. We look forward to hearing from you!
