Make all Laravel tutorial free and accept donation

@kashaigili will you work for me for free? Everyone here will respect you for it.

I don't actually want you to work for me, for free or not, I just think it is a little disrespectful asking someone to make their services free with no real basis for doing so. This is how Jeffrey makes a living.

Also what does this have to do with Elixir?

@opheliadesign I cant continue reading this collection of elixir because of cash https://laracasts.com/series/painless-builds-with-laravel-elixir. Share knowledge for free

Honestly put yourself in Jeff's position... Would you do that? Would you really?? Not knowing if you'll be able to pay your hosting bills the next month, not knowing where the food is coming from. Donations are too unreliable and I think you'll find those of us who do pay for Laracasts do not feel begrudged for buying Jeff lunch once a month at all.

If they were all free, Jeffery would have to get a different job and he probably wouldn't have time to work with Laravel anymore.

Lots of his vids are free already. People seem to always want more.

In order for you to get to work faster, you can buy a car. If you can't afford a car, you take the bus, ride the bike, or walk.

Laracasts is like buying a car; it is a great tool to help you get to "work" faster but it's not the only way for you to get there.

How do you think Jeffrey learned all of this?

Well worth the $$$$!! Not only for what you learn but the quality Jeffrey teaches with, it's a talent 90% of the other tutorials teachers don't have. Can't stand listening to someone uuummm and stepping on his tongue. And the final amazing piece is the community here!.

@olimorris My suggestion to Laracasts, have to think how can help developers especially students who not yet making money.

Youre a student? You probably pay for school. All your teachers get paid. Why should Jeffery be any different?

One month is $9 isn't it? Here in the UK, that's about the equivalent of 2 pints of beer.. and for that, you can even download the videos from that series and watch them over and over again.

Have a sandwich one lunchtime instead of a McDonalds (or whatever) and signup for a month with the saving =)

Cheers..

Ian

@ian_h the OP appears to be located in Dar es salaam. It would be interesting to find out what $9 per month represents in Tanzania.

@Graham a quick Google search! ;)

9 US Dollars = 19998.90 Tanzanian Shillings

Go easy on him fellows. This might legitemently be a lot of money to him.

A girls bar fine in Thailand is 200 baht. About $2.50 US. So yes, it might be a lot of cash, plus a lot of countries have free colleges.

True.. I guess it's just a little rude (IMHO) to ask for everything to be free, especially considering albeit not related to the topic he's looking for, there is already a lot of free videos available on this site (the entire fundamentals series is free IIRC for example?)

Maybe I've seen it too many times over the past 15 years, because what we do doesn't result in a physical product (like a carpenter would make a table for example), so many assume that you can do it for free.. one of the reasons now why whenever anyone I don't know asks what I do, I'm just an "office worker"... you mention anything to do with web development, and all of a sudden they have a problem with their router that you can obviously fix for free being "a computer guy" blah blah blah =)

The other alternative of course, is dig in with what you can access for free on here, search for anything specific you want to know and if you don't find the answer, post a question here... there seems like a lot of friendly and knowledgeable people more than happy to help out where they can =)

Cheers..

Ian

many says how @Jeffrey Way will pay the bill, he does this for living.... seriously??? he is a professional, he teach laravel so well, and also knows so much about PHP and all the other amazing stuff he shows on his video... that it`s not LIKELY but OBLIGATORY that he has already opened his own company.... making a project like laracast, wouldnt cost too much for him.. as well as if it was me.. at this point... if i was a ninja like him.. laracast would be definitely free for all.. what i would earn from it? well only who does this kind of things will can ever understand what it feels like to have a community following you.. and it has no price...

Laracasts takes up a massive amount of my day. Almost all of it. You don't work for free, so please don't ask me to.

Lots and lots of the videos are free, and I charge $9 a month. Pennies, considering I've spent years upon years learning how to do all this stuff.

@kashaigili You probably think when @JeffreyWay makes a 10 minutes video, it only takes him 10-20 minutes to record it, right? I did a few presentations for my colleagues, trust me, preparing all the materials and a speech is a lot of work. I totally agree, $9 for that amount of materials really is almost free. @JeffreyWay should charge more. :)

Well, I guess not everyone is Salman Khan (of Khan Academy) and even Sal's website is heavily sponsored by a few big names and plenty of donations.

I think laracasts, while useful is not a website that affects education on the scale of Khan Academy, Udacity, Cousera, EdX. Hence big sources of donation is unlikely to make completely free a reality unless some billionaire decides to bankroll laracasts that is. Which is almost impossible.

Well, if someone can afford a computer and an internet connection I am inclined to think that they can afford a Laracast subscription. If all Laracast was for free it would inevitably suffer both in terms of quantity and quality. There is clearly hard work put into the videos, making complex things simple with a good speaking pace and a tone of voice that doesn't make you want to throw your speakers out of the window.

Good things cost money. It's quite simple. And here on Laracasts you are getting AMAZING knowledge, thanks to @JeffreyWay

How about gifting membership to other members. I am ready to gift one year membership to op. I hope he will be able learn a lot and contribute to community. @JeffreyWay is there an option where another member gifts the membership.

I think many people have no idea how much work goes into creating high-quality instructional content. Like, no f***ing clue.

I run a similar service to Laracasts, but for badminton players. One five minute video can take a week to prepare, film, and edit. As an absolute minimum, it would take two days.

Screencasts take less time than filming on location, but just look at the amount of content on Laracasts. And Jeffrey puts a lot of thought into presenting things as clearly as possible.

Quality is something you often don't notice, except by its absence! Maybe the OP should try making some instructional videos themselves.

I'll just point out the elephant in the room. This kid is from Tanzania, Africa. Aside from the general monetary issue in Africa you also have to realize there is a huge cultural difference. I know a couple of friends who actually did some community service in Tanzania and money is regarded differently there than it is in the western world. Poor kid is probably struggling on a Pentium III and a CRT monitor for all we know. Running Windows XP.

All jokes aside, I think everyone made his/her point here. Let the thread die.

@kashaigili, i agree with you. all Laravel tutorials must be free and accept donations

@nanadjei2 - Then start creating Laravel videos every day and releasing them for free. Let me know how that goes after a year.

@JeffreyWay, in some way i do understand you.

One have to consider that some of that money will go to server fees and 3rd party fees that might be required and to Jeff himself.

Server (Monthly) ++
SSL
Vimeo Pro (Business)
Pusher (Monthly)
Forge (Probably a special price or free :P) (Envoyer)
Algolia
Mailchimp
Mandrillapp
Stripe (They take their cut when we pay)
Bugsnag

(Others)

Can't speak for Jeff, but it costs to run this.
While free is good, not everything can be free.

@kashaigili , @nanadjei2 Why don't you people think other wise. If you don't want to pay the laracasts fee, you better start accepting donations. @kashaigili shall donate @nanadjei2 and vice versa. Please don't come saying 'sharing knowledge must be free'. Can you walk to a bank and say 'hey accept some donations and put some cash in my account'?