Monokai Pro for Jetbrains

We got monthly subscriptions for editor color schemes now??

Saving some clicks:<p>$10&#x2F;yr for the first year, $8 for the second, $6 for the third year and onwards uninterrupted.<p>$1&#x2F;$0.80&#x2F;$0.60 per month for the first&#x2F;second&#x2F;third year uninterrupted.<p>I paid for the VS Code theme. I will be passing on this.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plugins.jetbrains.com&#x2F;plugin&#x2F;26007-monokai-pro&#x2F;pricing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plugins.jetbrains.com&#x2F;plugin&#x2F;26007-monokai-pro&#x2F;prici...</a>

Monokai Pro is now available for JetBrains IDEs. A well-designed theme with carefully tuned colors and custom icons, built to let you focus on your code. Worth checking out if you&#x27;re particular about your editor&#x27;s aesthetics.

The neat part about this project is that someone is choosing to see if they can make a subscription model for an attractive style viable.<p>The market, of course, and not the initially and loud naysayers will decide. So many things that we never thought would take off eventually did.<p>When you create a product, there are many different sorts of ways to make income:<p><pre><code> * just give it away (no income) * donations (I hear this has low income rates) * one time fee (usually relatively high price and cost-of-entry for the buyer) * subscription (lower cost of entry for the buyer, recurring income, easy-to-forget, facilitating continued revenue stream) * free + money-making-gimmick &#x2F; loot boxes &#x2F; season pass &#x2F; pay-per-key &#x2F; horse armor (free cost of entry for the buyer, gamble for the developer, potentially source of HUGE returns, see: Fortnite, League of Legends, and so on) </code></pre> The subscription model for styling tools has been seen in some places, usually customer-facing ones (see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mui.com&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mui.com&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;</a> ); but I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve seen it very many times for developer-facing tools.<p>Should be interesting to see the results. Will you be sharing those in the coming future, maybe, to see how this experiment goes?

I happily paid for the Sublime version of this theme but I have negative interest in a forever subscription for this.

I just downloaded this and its very polished for a new release. Works great!<p>I will trial it for a bit and if I like it will definitely subscribe. Have you considered adding some premium features to help justify the subscription?

I&#x27;d suggest you follow Jetbrains&#x27; pricing structure.

You&#x27;re literally selling a theme. A common one at that. No sale.

Coming next, a monthly subscription to enable darkmode...

Tbh monokai (and solarized) never appealed to me, personally I dislike both. The best colorscheme is the one you make yourself. It’s not that hard once in a lifetime after you settled with an editor and 80% of it is the background and the primary keywords color. Red on dark is unreadable to me. Instead of code structure, I see white identifiers everywhere.

Please, stop this cheap marketing

It is for those who spend on anything to increase their self worth? do not see how otherwise it can be useful. And these color palettes is actually pretty awful.

I think this should be a Show HN?

Absolutely not.

The website doesn&#x27;t say anything other than it&#x27;s a plugin for JetBrains IDEs.<p>Sure, but what does it do? The website doesn&#x27;t say at all, only including some screenshots of it in action.<p>WTF?<p>---<p>The comments here clear that up, saying it&#x27;s just a theme. That should be clearly communicated from the website itself though. ;)

My feelings about this very much hinge on whether or not it is in fact the original creator of the theme who gets paid for it.<p>If so? Fair enough, a very small ask for a very useful thing.<p>If not? Fuck your own face.

Hope this is using Pantone copyrighted colors, because otherwise a yearly subscription with no perpetual fallback license is rather <i>ridiculous</i> for a theme. &#x2F;s