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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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1502 points JustSkyfall | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.96s | source
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fn-mote ◴[18 Sep 25 02:24 UTC] No.45284378[source]▶
I was ready to be unsympathetic - too bad for the company - but then I read TFA and it's a rug pull on a nonprofit teaching coding to kids....

https://hackclub.com/

(They do help clubs sell things, taking "7% of income", so they do have a revenue stream, but the money that Slack wants would pay a veritable army of student interns.)

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1. JoshTriplett ◴[18 Sep 25 08:32 UTC] No.45287078[source]▶
This is not zero sum.

I would love it if future folks can write their own random scripts without needing a developer to do it for them.

I would love to see more people writing software. There will always be advanced work that needs doing. There will always be larger challenges.

I want the world of the future, where every 10-year-old knows calculus and python and is incredibly capable, and then I want to see the future we get when they grow up.