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

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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…

The freebsd foundation gets over a million dollars a year. That isn't enough to beat out Windows or even linux. (I know linux has a foundation as well and I presume has a larger budget, I just don't know the numbers off hand)

AFAIK, for most tasks GNU/Linux is already good enough. Look for example, at a successful project in Munich to replace Windows for public employees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux.

The main problem is people do not want to learn a new interface or have programs running only on Windows.

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

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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…

Is that fair though? If something is only worth 5 to me and 40 to you, and the cost of development is 45 - neither of us along can afford the feature, but if we put aside out different contributions the total is enough to make both of us happy, or neither of are. Your model both of use get nothing when we both could be happy on a different model.

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

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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…

$400k pays for 3 people.. maybe a couple of more if you hire from a cheaper country. If all GIMP needed was a few more developers to be competitive against PS, that would have happened by now. You're seriously underestimating the amount of work GIMP needs to do.. and/or the amount of work that already goes into GIMP.

Oh but it is? Do you use the GIMP?

Photoshop's content-aware fill first appeared as a third-party open-source plugin for the GIMP.

While one certainly can't equate the two I have found GIMP works well for a broad array of digital imagery tasks... just like Photoshop.

Much of Photoshop's dominance has to do with the network effects of Adobe's ubiquitous ecosystem as much as the comprehensiveness of their tooling.

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

#164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

You have many hackers already donating their time to work on free software projects, that might be able to do more if they were compensated to do so. $400k is a lot of money to partially compensate people who are already donating much of their time, especially when you consider that you don't have to worry about paying for benefits.

Pure Fantasy.

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

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Does anything like this exist for putting bounties on small scripts / extensions?

I just posted these questions yesterday, in the hope of finding solutions to a couple common annoyances I have with Google search:

https://superuser.com/questions/1218986/keyboard-shortcut-to...

https://superuser.com/questions/1218989/how-to-maintain-orde...

I don't want the overhead of "hiring a freelancer" to do the work. But I'd definitely pay a bounty if someone came in with the answer / script / extension / app that solved the problem.

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

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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.

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.

Please don't jab a needle into your bicep. That sounds painful and unnecessary.

Tricep is the way to go here.

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

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

#168
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I actually need the first item listed there (InDinero replacement), but I signed up and am sort of confused? I would very likely pay for this feature, but I'm not willing to commit to much unless it works. I would pay a nominal amount to "kickstart" it I guess, and have the option to sign up later. But it's a fairly nasty problem - porting your books a proprietary platform to QuickBooks seems full of traps.

Just signed up to "solve this problem", since we've been building ~the exact thing that post describes: an accounting service built on top of QuickBooks Online, with really robust integrations for services startups use (e.g. Gusto, Stripe, Expensify, etc.)

Like inDinero or some of the other options out there, we're a service that takes care of your books for you, so you don't need to think about them. But with a few key differences:

* We're built on QuickBooks Online, so you're not locked into a system that no one else knows how to use. (It's still a proprietary system, but it's the industry standard.)

* We take a hybrid humans + software approach. Most of the work of keeping the books updated is tedious data entry, and when humans do the work (no matter how talented they are), it's super-error-prone and frustrating. Our attitude is: computers should do the tedious repetitive work, and our talented team of pros should focus on (a) doing the tricky stuff, (b) understanding the specifics of your business, and (c) answering any questions you have.

* We're startup people, so we've had these problems ourselves. This is our third startup — our previous companies were Ksplice (acq. by Oracle) and Zulip (acq. by Dropbox), so we're definitely not strangers to building software.

(Incidentally, we've done a bunch of migrations from inDinero before.)

Basically, our thesis is: humans + software each doing what they do best. (Or, if you like, we're building an Iron Man suit for our people to do your books with higher quality.)

We're in private beta today and have been doing the books for a bunch of tech companies (all the way from newly incorporated to well on their way to their Series B). We're actively taking on a steady stream of new customers, so if you're interested, send me a note: waseem@zapgram.com

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

#169
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).

You're right. I googled for "photoshop license price" and Google gave me old information from this page https://www.cnet.com/news/adobes-new-pricing-plan-ouch-users...

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

#170
post #165

Does anything like this exist for putting bounties on small scripts / extensions? I just posted these questions yesterday, in the hope of finding solutions to a couple common annoyances I have with Google search: https://superuser.com/questions/1218986/keyboard-shortcut-to... https://superuser.com/questions/1218989/how-to-maintain-orde... I don't want the overhead of "hiring a freelancer" to do the work. But I'd defi…

I'm curious: In your mind, what is the difference between 'hiring a freelancer' and 'paying a bounty to someone who comes with the answer'?

I'd suggest to you odesk.com, but that is a site for hiring freelancers. Although I've seen it used many times for 'here's what I want, deliver it and the money is yours' rather than a .. 'work for me at X/hr and I'll direct you' kind of thing.

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