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

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Post by antigirl »

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…

You should be using adobe xd or sketch for any app/web work, photoshop is best for photo manipulation and raster images. And yes it is needed for stock heavy websites...

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

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Post by kodablah »

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.

Make the extension generic and give away "rules" separately for specific sites. For instance, if it's just a "referer" header injector, just release it as that. And no, unless it's novel, don't try and charge for it.

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

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Post by pascalxus »

This is a great start! There is a huge demand for more opportunities like this. Entrepreneurs and businesses are so tired of building yet another useless app, out of sheer lack of problems to solve. But, with a site like this, you can find problems that are actually problems. The site just needs more customers and more problems.

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

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Post by pascalxus »

s73ver wrote: post #83
khalilravanna wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The whole point of this site is to find problems that are worth solving. Not, to build yet another useless yik yak app, that nobody needs, wants or isn't willing to pay for.

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

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Post by s73ver »

amelius wrote: post #53
orcdork wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Except that for doctors the circle somehow doesn't close upon itself. 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.

And when you screw up and stick it in the wrong place?

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

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Post by sanbor »

s73ver wrote: post #78
danvoell wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kickstarter?

Kickstarter or Patreon would seem to be the kind of thing made for this problem. Maybe those that donate more get their pet issue moved up the queue.

What about you pay to get hours of work (HoW). Then people put their HoW into the issues that they want to solve. Example: Having different keymaps scheme support in Gimp would take 100 hours. So once people put enough HoW into that issue the team can start to tackle it.

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

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Post by parsnips »

s73ver wrote: post #88
k_sh wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

I think the word you were looking for was "Stealing".
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