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Re: Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project

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Post by justin66 »

whack wrote: post #274
bqe wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This reminds me of the joke about the economist who refuses to pick up the $20 bill on the ground because surely someone else would have already picked it up.

Yes, people love to laugh at this mythical economist, but seriously, when's the last time you saw a legit $20 bill just lying on the ground? I've never seen this even once in my life. Perhaps this mythical economist is the one having the last laugh.

I found a handful of money on the sidewalk once walking back from class, about $12. More recently found a $100 bill in my sister's front yard (not her money, presumably blown there by the wind).

It happens.

Re: Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project

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Post by jessaustin »

callumlocke wrote: post #103
formula1 wrote: post #87

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Why would spending money on a brand new system with no proof of success be better than a matured application with plugin support?

Because GIMP has a lot of baggage: a very particular UI, a community of active users (many of whom probably like it exactly how it is thanks), and a terrible name.

The name was "terrible" right after the film "Pulp Fiction" was released. Decades later, is that still true?

Re: Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project

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Post by BugsJustFindMe »

whack wrote: post #274
bqe wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This reminds me of the joke about the economist who refuses to pick up the $20 bill on the ground because surely someone else would have already picked it up.

Yes, people love to laugh at this mythical economist, but seriously, when's the last time you saw a legit $20 bill just lying on the ground? I've never seen this even once in my life. Perhaps this mythical economist is the one having the last laugh.

It's probably happened to me a dozen times that I can actually remember. The first time I can remember was a $20 on the floor of a Blockbuster Video. Most recently I found a 50 euro note on the ground in La Reunion about a year ago. But I guess that's technically not a $20 bill, so maybe it doesn't count.

If you allow for faux currency exchange, keeping your eyes aimed down at a renaissance fairground is pretty much guaranteed to turn up enough food tickets for a turkey leg.

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Post by schoen »

dragonwriter wrote: post #282
whack wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, people love to laugh at this mythical economist, but seriously, when's the last time you saw a legit $20 bill just lying on the ground? I've never seen this even once in my life. Perhaps this mythical economist is the one having the last laugh.

> Yes, people love to laugh at this mythical economist, but seriously, when's the last time you saw a legit $20 bill just lying on the ground? 1996 (±2 years) in an arcade, actually.

That was just about the same timeframe when I found one as well (on a college campus in my town).

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Post by slezakattack »

whack wrote: post #274
bqe wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This reminds me of the joke about the economist who refuses to pick up the $20 bill on the ground because surely someone else would have already picked it up.

Yes, people love to laugh at this mythical economist, but seriously, when's the last time you saw a legit $20 bill just lying on the ground? I've never seen this even once in my life. Perhaps this mythical economist is the one having the last laugh.

I found $315 blown against a street curb on my run with my wife one morning. It was roughly 7am and nobody else in sight so we just took it... Admittedly, when people ask the ethical question of "do you report it to the police?", I suppose my answer is "no". I gave myself solace in thinking it might've just been a drug deal that went wrong. ;)

Re: Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project

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Post by duskwuff »

kelvin0 wrote: post #287
duskwuff wrote: post #273

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Yeah, that one isn't a programming task at all. It's a business problem, and not one that's likely to be solved anytime soon.

Yup, kinda like the massive undertaking Steve Jobs did to make iTunes a reality (getting the content from competing Music Corps.). An 'iNews' seems as much of a Herculean job of convincing competing news outlet to lay out their content piecemeal alongside their competitors content... tough sell! But I do like the idea and would also gladly pay for it!

Ironically, Apple has something along the lines of what you're describing. It's just not available outside of iOS.

https://www.apple.com/news/

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Post by dzenos »

nonconvergent wrote: post #226

A few of these can be solved with a comment. "Need to see revision history for View-Only Google Docs" - Don't use a shared Google Doc as the agent of record. Email it to each other as an agreed contract. "Can't find good replacement for expensive accounting/bookkeeper service" Have you tried literally anything else? You're paying $500/month for this solution, have considered just getting an accountant and emailing hi…

"Email it to each other as an agreed contract." - But this makes it super hard to find the particular version and to be on the same page. This really leads to multiple versions of the same document and thus it is easy to lose work and information; common to work on an outdated version; difficult to know who did what and when; hard to track comments and versions.

Just signed up with our solution on demandrush: Tuiqo, simple document versioning - https://tuiqo.com. We just graduated from YC Startup School Founders track.

Re: Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project

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Post by iamwil »

kirillzubovsky wrote: post #228

I find it a little funny how unrealistic people can be when evaluating the cost of their problem. Take this one for example: "We have hundreds of images uploaded to our app each day. The issue is some of these images have text that we want cropped out." -- willing to pay? $75/month. Baller! Chances are this is a problem for a data-mining / ai-training platform that wants to create a better image set. They are chargin…

On the other hand, it can also go the other way. Non-technical customers don't actually care how hard something is to build, as long as it solves their problem. So it often surprises engineers how a 1 day script can make lots of money for them.

Freelancers often make the same mistake--charging by what it costs to them, plus a little bit more. You should charge how much value it brings to the customer, not how much it costs you to make. Easy to say, hard to do.

Re: Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project

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Post by conductr »

sanbor wrote: post #52

Photoshop license costs $348 a year. If 1000 people get together and put $400 each, you'll get $400000. That money could be used to leverage a Gimp to be more Photoshop-users friendly. Then you don't have to keep with the subscription model. You have a great piece of open source software available for everyone to use as long as they want. You can do another round to get more features added. This solves the issue that…

My question is, what is preventing GIMP from tapping into their existing userbase?

I get they are FOSS. But, they could still add in their GUI options that don't exist; then prompt donations that would go towards the features development.

For example, Image > Rotate, triggers a pop-up, "Sorry, Rotating image is not currently a feature but with your support we'd love to add it to GIMP! We expect it will cost $10,000 and we've already raised $4,235 from users like you. Contribute now..."

Re: Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project

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Post by dEnigma »

conductr wrote: post #319
sanbor wrote: post #52

Photoshop license costs $348 a year. If 1000 people get together and put $400 each, you'll get $400000. That money could be used to leverage a Gimp to be more Photoshop-users friendly. Then you don't have to keep with the subscription model. You have a great piece of open source software available for everyone to use as long as they want. You can do another round to get more features added. This solves the issue that…

My question is, what is preventing GIMP from tapping into their existing userbase? I get they are FOSS. But, they could still add in their GUI options that don't exist; then prompt donations that would go towards the features development. For example, Image > Rotate, triggers a pop-up, "Sorry, Rotating image is not currently a feature but with your support we'd love to add it to GIMP! We expect it will cost $10,000 a…

I can't quite tell if you're serious, but I don't think users would like that sort of bait and switch tactic. It would make GIMP feel like shareware that tries to trick you into paying money.
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