Ask HN: Is Sublime Text dead?

Re:Ask HN: Is Sublime Text dead? by Bahamut on Thursday April 10, 2014 @08:01AM (#7565375)

I can't imagine that the product hasn't made enough money that it wouldn't be viable to hire a developer, or to take on investment to expand the operation. ST seems to be the most popular code text editor amongst developers.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Sublime Text dead? by sigzero on Thursday April 10, 2014 @08:29AM (#7565491)

Textmate had that mind share for a while. That one man shop pretty much stoppped. I see no reason why Sublime won't go that way if other developers (somehow) aren't brought in.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Sublime Text dead? by aristidesfl on Thursday April 10, 2014 @08:36AM (#7565529)

Developers do get tired and burn out.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Sublime Text dead? by hbbio on Thursday April 10, 2014 @08:48AM (#7565604)

Have to agree with you.

I bought ST just like many friends did. Sublime may be selling about as much as RubyMotion, which invested the proceeds in hiring very few, high-level coders that seem to be fully inline with the founder/original author.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Sublime Text dead? by levosmetalo on Thursday April 10, 2014 @08:40AM (#7565547)

Just a proof that freemium model doesn't work.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Sublime Text dead? by coldtea on Thursday April 10, 2014 @08:44AM (#7565574)

What proof? For one, he said "he can't imagine that they haven't made enough money" and he's correct. They have made boatloads of money. If they don't hire someone else to help with programmer, that's their choice.

Second, ST is not based on a freemium model. Only the betas are free (and that only as long as there's no stable release), for the stable versions you have to pay.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Sublime Text dead? by shubhamjain on Thursday April 10, 2014 @09:14AM (#7565741)

How much do you estimate ST makes a month? Considering, the software doesn't coerce you to buy a license by restrictions and you can continue evaluating forever, I speculate the sales records to be a bit gloomy.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Sublime Text dead? by NikolaTesla on Thursday April 10, 2014 @09:46AM (#7565985)

What "proof" do you have that they made "boatloads of money"?

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Re:Ask HN: Is Sublime Text dead? by coldtea on Thursday April 10, 2014 @02:26PM (#7568627)

For one, the wild recognition it has in the editor space. People have been raving about it, left and right.

Second, the fact that since ST2 he was able to hire a second person to help him with the business side.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Sublime Text dead? by Gigablah on Thursday April 10, 2014 @09:55AM (#7566056)

About as much proof as the poster above him.

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