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

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Post by epicide »

pascalxus wrote: post #95
s73ver wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Except there is no guarantee that you will build anything that anybody is willing to pay for.

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

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Post by elliottcarlson »

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.

https://launch.blendle.com/ kind of gets there; though it's based on microtransactions per article instead of an overall subscription fee.

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

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Post by chasing »

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 Photoshop license is $10/mo according to Adobe's site. $120/yr.

Also, $400k is, like, nothing in developer time (compared to what Adobe puts into their software, at least).

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

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Post by jasonsync »

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…

Affinity already has great Photoshop and Illustrator alternatives: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/

The opportunity with Photoshop may not be to create another Photoshop clone, or add more features, but rather create smaller, specialized editing apps, that each target a subset of the Photoshop user-base, with perhaps less features.

Look at how Adobe Lightroom cherry picked a few Photoshop and Bridge components, to create a more specialized app that does a specialized job that Photoshop might have done in the past.

Or how Adobe's iPad Pro apps again deliver just a small subset of the total available features from their parent apps, making them more specialized for specific use-cases.

Photoshop's massive fragmented user base is ripe for the pickin' for sure. Could you tear down Gimp like that? Or would it be better to start from scratch?

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

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Post by epicide »

hackerews wrote: post #25
goatherders wrote: post #10

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.

Another question for you: who determines when a project is done or that it has met the requirements for MVP?

For example, say I pick up one of the projects and the subscriber picks me to work on it. Okay, great. I go and work on it and consider it done. As it turns out, there was a lot of miscommunication and they wanted something different.

Do I still get paid? It seems like either way, there is a huge avenue for somebody to get screwed.

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

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Post by 15155 »

orcdork wrote: post #51
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.

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.

This analogy is driving me crazy, heh, but I can't resist:

Flu shots are generally intramuscular, you literally just jab it into your bicep. A layperson can do it with high probabilities of success just by reading the instructions on the box.

Indeed, pharmacists administer these all over the US.

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

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Post by falcolas »

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'll be the negative Nancy here - you'll never get 1000 people to pay $400 each for any OSS software, no matter the price of the competitor.

The reason is a simple value estimation. It's open source (and so free to get) therefore its price is $0. Any product that is free signals that the product has correspondingly low value. I think it's simply unrealistic to expect people to put forward $400 for something with such low value perception and whose fair market price is $0.

This is especially true when Photoshop has such a high value perception (in part because it is better, and in part as a justification for shelling out the $400).

Ask yourself this - Have you, or will you, paid (donated, ...) $70 for using Vim (atom, neovim, emacs, VSC, ...) to support development? Have you paid $200 to Debian, Ubuntu, or Redhat for your Linux OS? $5,000 for (open|libre)ssl? $13,000 per core for PostgreSQL/MySQL?

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

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Post by tehlike »

scrapcode wrote: post #81
zimmund wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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