Just curious;<p>I never got these "for students" type of promotions. Everyone does it. Amazon, fogbugz, local pizza shops, and a ton of others I'm sure.<p>Maybe I shoudn't say "I don't get it", because I guess I do. The student label is pretty convenient and as everyone seems to understand it; "students are broke" because they have to pay for school and cannot work full time? Is that it?<p>A lot of people legitimately struggle to pay for things and are "broke". While it is true that being a student is a good thing, it does not entail that not being a student, (or maybe just specifically not being a student at a qualifying university that gives out .edu addresses or something) is a bad thing.<p>I guess my point is people struggle in all sorts of ways, and I would be happy to see a company say something more like "Free for people in need", "Pay what you can", or something like that. Ok so I'm not the best marketer but that would be nice in my book.<p>An open, honest, and truly unbiased form of helping out. =)<p>P.S. I guess I should put my money where my mouth is. I'll incorporate that into my side projects and hopefully I can refine it enough to share my results (and promotions) here with HN.
This type of promotion is a great idea if you run a service that businesspeople pay money for. Especially if said service is tons better than the entrenched Enterprise Thing in its niche.<p>Roughly 100% of the students you give free licenses to will one day be sitting in a room full of people wearing ties, trying to, for example, get WebEx to work <i>at all</i> so that they can get on with the big call. It's costing them $1000 per minute to have the Director of Finance messing with the computer, and if Bright Kid chimes in saying "why don't we just use this simple conference thing we used in school. It always just works", then you've more than paid for the free license you gave that kid all those years ago.<p>It costs you nothing to do. It gains you goodwill, marketing, future sales, and a ton of other side benefits. If you sell stuff to businesses, absolutely do this.
i've been working on an extended digital version of hackermonthly that i should mention here for all you HM subscribers.<p>it's a 100% digital interactive magazine (click through it!) that on a daily basis takes the 30 "most interesting" posts from hackernews and puts them all on a single "front page".<p>as a bonus i've included not just a few dozen comments but HUNDREDS of comments (for your reading pleasure). the "front page" subscription service costs only $.99 a month and gives you a daily "front page" in a digital, interactive, and browser-friendly format (ipad & kindle too!). i've also put together a "more page" subscription service that gives you access to not just the top 30 stories but ALL STORIES -- in 30 page increments.<p>if you act now, each additional 30-story "More" page can be accessed for the ridiculously low price of $.25/page.<p>but that's not all. if you're a student and respond to this post in the next 30 minutes, you'll get daily access to not just the "front page", not just a "more" page, but EVERY PAGE in the entire hackernoobs archive for just $1.99/month.<p>limited supply, so hurry! act now!