Hey HN! Co-creator here. We originally launched this course for free back in April. We ended up getting over 1k sign ups which felt pretty great.
Fast forward six months later, we decided to remove sign-ups to completely erase the friction to access the content.
We use Rust and mdbook to generate the course layout. In addition to some nifty features like additional color schemes, anyone can now contribute to the course and put up a PR with their suggestions!
This looks really good, thanks for building this. Based on my level of experience I just started getting system design questions in my interviews and haven't really succeeded in any of them. I'm going to share this with my friends preparing for interviews too.
Just curious, what do you guys get out of this? Not to be cynical, but this content seems very well produced and delivers a lot of value, yet is just out for free. I also don't see any product/brand advertised-- what if we want to say thanks for the content?
The backstory:
- We were initially thinking of charging for this, but thought: it would be more helpful for the community, given our time constraints, to share it outright.
> what if we want to say thanks for the content?
I appreciate the thought! I'd say, pay it forward : }
Fast forward six months later, we decided to remove sign-ups to completely erase the friction to access the content.
We use Rust and mdbook to generate the course layout. In addition to some nifty features like additional color schemes, anyone can now contribute to the course and put up a PR with their suggestions!
Hope y’all enjoy!