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I suggest that you guys over at ellislab stay hungry and diversify or else

I mean a lot of video and tutorials and charge 15 a month to access the site or you can be nice and put it up for free for me the one with the Idea

omg 😊

why not you build it buddy ?

see ya around.

I wish I could if I was CEO

this is what I would do to keep people as members give them a free tee shirt every 6 months. And make each tee shirt designed differently so like they can be collectors items.

don’t you think that is a good Idea?  2000 sign ups at 20 a month is almost $500,000 in revenue a year

So you’re proposing I spend $200/year on some videos, tutorials, and a ‘free’ t-shirt?

Well then, good luck with your site.

its not just videos and tutorials you will learn how to do every thing with ci and expression engine from making modules and extensions to programming everything

there is no end at what can be made with expression and codeiginter together and there is a big market for this information people are making books so there is a need for information

I belong to VTC.com I spent 30 a month for the past year not a problem’

and people spend 30 a month on porn tv so this can work this information is like porn for geeks

I want my ELLISLab tv

Why would they charge for tutorials and videos, that’s pointless. If they offered them for free then there is more of a chance that people who don’t know how to use EE would learn and thus buy a licence.

Why would a developer try EE + CI when they have to pay for tutorials, when they could pick a free framework with free tutorials. I agree they should charge for support but that’s custom help. Also people not connected to EL will write their own free tutorials.

Design a T-shirt? Who cares, if I am a developer and making something for a client the last thing I look for in a framework is a T-shirt.

I think you need to get priority’s right, in the end people want service and a good product, not freebies and expensive subscriptions to use the service they have already just paid for.

Why are you asking us if it is a good idea?  For one person it could be a genius idea.  For another person it could be a total waste of time.  Ideas are not worth much, it is the implementation that is important.

Someone is kind of doing this already, but not for CodeIgniter. 

Train-ee

By the way, Ellislab.tv is horrible.  Why not come up with your own name?  You could never really brand Ellislab.tv, so you are already starting off wrong.

You are probably better off targeting novice users picking up ExpressionEngine rather than CodeIgniter developers.  If you can’t figure out CodeIgniter you don’t need a CodeIgniter tutorial, you need to learn PHP!  😉

After all, CodeIgniter is not Rails, a huge framework running on what was a relatively unknown language.

I have an idea, why not you make it and do the tutorials and then you can collect all that profit? Your providing a service and if people are willing to pay they will.

Personally its the idea that’s worth the money, not the implementation, an implementation can be copied very fast but if someone has the idea protected then its worth more. If you have ever heard of TV show called ‘Dragons Den’ basically entrepreneurs ask for backing from several self made millionaires. The one question the backers always ask is do they have protection (patent) of the idea, every time the entrepreneur says no ‘But it would be hard to copy’, the reply is always. “Well I have more money than you at the moment, I have full time developers, I could make your service in 2 weeks, then with the extra cash go after all your current customers and provide them a better service and there would be nothing you could do to stop me”

If you can’t figure out CodeIgniter you don’t need a CodeIgniter tutorial, you need to learn PHP!

john codeigniter is just another type of MVC pattern. zend has there own implementation of a mvc pattern. Understanding codeigniter is not that hard but understanding what it’s doing behind the scenes is a topic even php programmers will enjoy watching

there are certain settings like caching, profiling certain parts of code and what not even database transactions, module developement, making ee do things it can’t do on its own are all things php programmers will like

And so all in all I give up you guys don’t want it I will not waste my time with all you leftys you don’t understand what it is like to be right sided thinkers or visual learners

What about something similar to starter kits like they do with dotNet.
It’s a team building concept, I’ld love to join some projects like that if there were any.
Then again I need to get cracking on my own site too.
From a commercial context of how to make some change for this stuff, just sell advertising, save the end-user some dough.

or we can just start a web group and use this website to produce our tutorials

http://www.tutorom.com/

Joining group projects sometimes ends there.
I’ve joined a few, and it’s sort of like OK we are all signed-up now what, and it falls apart from there.

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Anyone can create their own courses, and either charge for them, restrict access to them, or deliver as public courses (on request)

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you can charge for them and host them on your site and they do all the work

Here’s what I don’t understand - if you think it’s a good idea, then why not just do it?  I’m not saying it’s a good idea or a bad idea - but if you have it in your mind that you think it’s a good idea, then do it.