This has been somewhat contentious the last time I wrote about it. We don’t raise prices often. We actually only did it once for the basic subscription a few years back.

Having said that. The pricing of the course makes no sense once the Uber module is uploaded. It becomes a far larger course and increases its value. This will repeat once I upload additional apps. It’s unfair to existing users if we charge the same price regardless of value. It also provides a purchase disincentive.

We will raise the price to 499USD on the 30th of January and to 599USD in May once the social networking app is up.

We will still have an installments plan but it will probably raise prices too rather than stretch the installments further.

As you may recall I guaranteed a new app 4 times a year which means 8 new apps where the Uber clone is the first in that series. That doesn’t imply we’ll raise the course price by 800USD. I think that we’ll reach a price that we deem reasonable and stop (or slow down) at that point.

Next month I will publish two new modules into the academy.

The first I’m pretty clear about and it’s currently tentatively titled: “Working with the Codename One Source code: working without the build servers”.

It will walk through the process of setting up an environment based mostly on the source code without using the build servers. It will continue where include the source left off by going into device build complexities without the servers.

I’m still open for suggestions about second module so feel free to comment below. A good suggestion I received was “performance” which I think I can probably spend hours talking about…​