>Monthly subscription for science fiction and fantasy books
Isn't that the public library?
Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
So fork it. New name, new UI.
Seashore was a try at this a decade ago.
http://seashore.sourceforge.net/The_Seashore_Project/Screens...
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#123Photoshop 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…
If I could count on the 999 other people, Kickstarter-style, I just might.
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#124I guess I get it (maybe ?):
There are already many, many marketplaces for tech development of all shapes and forms.
For this one I guess it's:
Hey, people who want some tech developed: If you can formulate your problem as an interesting side project you will (1) be likely to find someone actually willing & able to do it cheaply; (2) you are likely to be able to aggregate your buying power with another buyer; (3) you pay a subscription so it isn't a large up-front cost.
and;
Hey, tech developers who like to do interesting side-projects: Here's a bunch of interesting side projects that you might have done them anyway, except here you will (might) get paid to do them!
One way to look at it is in comparison to kickstarter. In kickstarter, a producer runs the campaign by championing an idea and setting a funding model and the consumer can choose to buy in by providing dollars. Here, the consumer champions the idea and sets the price, the funding model is a subscription, and producers can choose to buy in by providing work... and also more consumers can buy in by subscribing with dollars.
I guess for this market to work, it has be be more efficient at satisfying the demand for X-aaS development than existing markets, though I don't know how it might be.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
If I could count on the 999 other people, Kickstarter-style, I just might.
Well... Set it up
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#126"Subscribe to news without paying $30/month per website" I don't think there is a legal way of actually doing this.
There is, if you are willing to restrict yourself to monthly/weeklies: Texture app is $14.99 and includes a dozen news magazines (and a couple hundred other magazines.)
Of course, to set up a new service like this with different sources is going to be a huge up-front cost in negotiating and building integration with content owners, capital to subsidize costs until your user base is big enough that you can negotiate low per-user licensing based on the volume you bring, etc. It's not a realistic side project.
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#127A few of these can be solved other ways or need more deets. The Google doc one for instance really just should go to am esigner. Or if this is a more light weight internal thing then Google docs needs mutable git like tags.
To me this is almost begging for a s/o style comment section.
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#128Photoshop 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 c…
Where is the source code or even just Linux binaries? Otherwise Affinity isn't really relevant when discussing GIMP.
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#129I think you might need to vet some of those customers for ethics. Some of the things being asked for are inherently illegal.
On the other hand, it seems there is a ton of money to be made on the site!
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#130This 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…
I think it'd be nice to gauge the interest of such a project. There is one person pledging right now, but if more do and the demand clearly seems to exist - maybe it's worth investing in.
there is a pretty substantial gap between '$75 for at least one month' and 'something that will make enough before someone else does it too to make it worth the time'