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> Identify location of text in an image ...for... $75 This is what my doctor charges for a flu vaccination. I guess I've chosen the wrong profession.
Looks like we've got full circle considering this same logic was applied to devs for ages.
This solves the issue that you get with subscription based services, which is that if you stop paying every month/year you loose access to the tool to do your work.
Instead of building yet another SaaS wouldn't be smarter for users to gather and pay for a software libre solution?
> Identify location of text in an image ...for... $75 This is what my doctor charges for a flu vaccination. I guess I've chosen the wrong profession.
You don't pay your doctor $75 for sticking a needle in your arm, you pay him for his knowledge not to stick the needle in the wrong place. Looks like we've got full circle considering this same logic was applied to devs for ages.
Youtube is full of videos showing how to inject oneself.
Writing a text-detection script can be done perhaps with some help from Google/Stackoverflow, but requires still some intellectual effort depending on requirements.
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Amazon Rekognition can almost do it. It doesn't seem to detect text, specifically, but it'd be able to detect whether or not a bird is in the image, or similar. That's not what the project is asking for, but it's very close to being a very doable hobby project.
The problem is what birds look like is very well defined compared to text. As in, there are many types of birds, but each type has a "consistent image" but there are infinite variations of text
Isn't this exactly how Freelancer/odesk/whatever work now?
Good question. The big difference is you own the products you build here, and charge a monthly fee for access (for up to X customers). It's a bit like kickstarting a SaaS business. Versus with contracting/freelancing, you get paid 1x and the product is owned by the customer you work for.
If I get final say in what goes in, then it seems very likely they wouldn't be on board with this (especially not after going through a project). If they get final say, then this is just contract work.
The other issue is liability. In the bookkeeping example again, who is liable in case of a data breach? If there is payroll info or client info in said service, who is responsible for compliance? They couldn't pay me $500,000 a month to get me to take on that kind of responsibility, much less $500.
I know I'm harping on one example, but a lot of projects would have similar issues come up.
I guess my point is that sometimes I don't actually want ownership of a project like that.
> you get paid 1x
That really depends on a lot of factors. From what I've seen on the site, it's more like the other way around is true.
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…
"Subscribe to news without paying $30/month per website" I don't think there is a legal way of actually doing this.
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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…
In this case, Photoshop will continue to dominate (unless they get lazy/give up) because they have recurring cash to reinvest.
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…