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Monokai Pro for Jetbrains

by monokai_nl on 12/28/24, 12:34 PM with 43 comments

  • by paxys on 12/31/24, 2:29 AM

    We got monthly subscriptions for editor color schemes now??

  • by lexlash on 12/31/24, 2:58 AM

    Saving some clicks:

    $10/yr for the first year, $8 for the second, $6 for the third year and onwards uninterrupted.

    $1/$0.80/$0.60 per month for the first/second/third year uninterrupted.

    I paid for the VS Code theme. I will be passing on this.

    https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/26007-monokai-pro/prici...

  • by monokai_nl on 12/28/24, 12:34 PM

    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're particular about your editor's aesthetics.

  • by t-writescode on 12/31/24, 3:44 AM

    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.

    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.

    When you create a product, there are many different sorts of ways to make income:

      * 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 / loot boxes / season pass / pay-per-key / 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)
    The subscription model for styling tools has been seen in some places, usually customer-facing ones (see: https://mui.com/pricing/ ); but I don't think I've seen it very many times for developer-facing tools.

    Should be interesting to see the results. Will you be sharing those in the coming future, maybe, to see how this experiment goes?

  • by russelg on 12/31/24, 3:13 AM

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

  • by kungfufrog on 12/31/24, 3:12 AM

    I just downloaded this and its very polished for a new release. Works great!

    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?

  • by rognjen on 12/29/24, 10:44 PM

    I'd suggest you follow Jetbrains' pricing structure.

  • by mrichman on 12/31/24, 2:55 AM

    You're literally selling a theme. A common one at that. No sale.

  • by vorpalhex on 12/31/24, 2:35 AM

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

  • by wruza on 12/31/24, 2:49 AM

    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.

  • by batata_frita on 12/31/24, 3:35 AM

    Please, stop this cheap marketing

  • by diimdeep on 12/31/24, 4:52 AM

    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.

  • by hysan on 12/31/24, 3:35 AM

    I think this should be a Show HN?

  • by zenethian on 1/1/25, 6:35 PM

    Absolutely not.

  • by justinclift on 12/31/24, 3:36 AM

    The website doesn't say anything other than it's a plugin for JetBrains IDEs.

    Sure, but what does it do? The website doesn't say at all, only including some screenshots of it in action.

    WTF?

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    The comments here clear that up, saying it's just a theme. That should be clearly communicated from the website itself though. ;)

  • by benreesman on 12/31/24, 2:52 AM

    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.

    If so? Fair enough, a very small ask for a very useful thing.

    If not? Fuck your own face.

  • by vunderba on 12/31/24, 3:21 AM

    Hope this is using Pantone copyrighted colors, because otherwise a yearly subscription with no perpetual fallback license is rather ridiculous for a theme. /s