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

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Post by scrapcode »

zimmund wrote: post #30
BoorishBears wrote: post #2

This looks like such a cool idea, but already you see that the problems presented seem to be seriously underestimating how complicated what they're trying to do is. For example, detecting specific text in an image? 10 minutes in OpenCV. Detecting any text at all in any format in an image? I don't even know where to start. Maybe 10 minutes in OpenCV if they constrain the kind of text, otherwise ML? It feels like an un…

It's also not clear how it will be used later. It could be used to crop/remove watermarks or copyright messages, and I wouldn't develop it if that's its purpose.

Captcha solving is expensive for spammers.

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

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Post by bb88 »

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…

I think the photoshop vs gimp is a bad comparison, mostly because throwing money at gimp to make it better is a bad idea. It would be better to start from scratch.

Now if you wanted to throw $400 for a photoshop like system to start from the ground up and work across all three platforms, I think you've got a great idea. You'd avoid the cruft, you could do subscription/pay-per-use cloud based filters, you could start with 32bits per channel from the start, instead of the slow transition to GEGL...

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

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Post by s73ver »

khalilravanna wrote: post #46
avaer wrote: post #6

> GET PAID TO BUILD YOUR NEXT PROJECT > Choose a problem below to get started. Get paid to build _my_ next project or _your_ next project? This is clearly a two-sided platform, but the messaging seems conflated: the headline speaks to builders and the instructions speak to end customers.

Yeah it's a little confusing, I agree. "Your next side project" out of context sounds like you get to pick the project. Might be better to explain it as: "looking for a side project to work on that's worth money?"

I suppose you could post your project idea on there, and see if it takes off. Although it's not clear who makes the decision of who "officially" gets to tackle it, there's really nothing stopping you from tackling it anyway.

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

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Post by beaconstudios »

baron816 wrote: post #21

I think this has the potential to introduce an interesting auction model. People might want to join in, but not at the initial price point. What if everyone proposed wanting in on project stated their maximum price point, and the winning application to solve would get the price they bid at for everyone above that level. In other words customers_offering_prices = [1,1,4,15,30,30,40,80,100,150,175,10000] winning_applic…

sounds like an approximation of a demand curve, which if opened up the developer would give them the option to choose how to segment their market quite nicely.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Torn wrote: post #73
amelius wrote: post #36

> 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.

> 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. So... they want to chop out watermarks?

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

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Post by danbruc »

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…

The time that went into Photoshop cost a lot more than $400k, I would guess between two and three orders of magnitude more. Even given that you would not have to start from scratch and that you know your target pretty much exactly and don't have to go through almost 30 years of evolution, $400k would not get you nearly close enough to Photoshop to make switching worthwhile. Also assuming starting with GIMP is a good idea in the first place, I know almost nothing about its features, architecture and code base.

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

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Post by formula1 »

bb88 wrote: post #82
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…

I think the photoshop vs gimp is a bad comparison, mostly because throwing money at gimp to make it better is a bad idea. It would be better to start from scratch. Now if you wanted to throw $400 for a photoshop like system to start from the ground up and work across all three platforms, I think you've got a great idea. You'd avoid the cruft, you could do subscription/pay-per-use cloud based filters, you could start…

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

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

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Post by s73ver »

k_sh wrote: post #57
rdudek wrote: post #16

"Subscribe to news without paying $30/month per website" I don't think there is a legal way of actually doing this.

I've been sitting on a paywall-killer browser extension I wrote for a while... concerned about a potential CFAA violation from a big org, especially if I were to charge for it.

I mean, you are essentially charging others for access to something that's not yours to provide access for (paywalled news).

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

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Post by platz »

BlackjackCF wrote: post #79
pc86 wrote: post #28

> Industry-specific deep learning interviews and walkthroughs > 1 customer paying $5/mo Sounds about right.

Every single one of the projects that are on this site right now are super underpaid... It's sad that even the highest bidding project is $500/mo.

In which you have to "provide your own accountant"

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

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Post by lazerpants »

amelius wrote: post #36

> 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.

1. You should just start getting them at a pharmacy then, they're usually more like $20.

2. This is why flu vaccine is not inexpensive: First, the CDC and WHO need to identify possible strains of flu that will be prevalent during the next flu season. Then flu vaccine has to be created by incubation (in an egg I believe), then killed, then transferred to a sterile container in suspension, this must be done for each strain of flu you are vaccinated against. The container must be transferred within certain temperature and time boundaries. This container must then be moved into a sterile syringe, which is inserted under your skin, preferably by someone who knows what they're doing.

The only reason that the vaccine is so inexpensive is that the CDC and WHO receive outside funding, and the process takes place on a massive scale.

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