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

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Post by tomc1985 »

rgbrenner wrote: post #153
crispyambulance wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GIMP is perfectly fine (for many use-cases), but its not what you or I think that matters. Perhaps the best person to ask is a photoshop user who actually paid for it?

I pay for creative suite. GIMP is very far behind. There are many significant core features missing, and many tools missing that make it difficult and time consuming to use. It would be more accurate to call it 'advanced paint' than photoshop. CS is expensive and I use a small part of its features... if GIMP covered just 25% of what photoshop could do, I would use it. But I think the only people who think GIMP is clo…

Do you really use GIMP? Because I don't think you use it very much if you think that it is a quarter of Photoshop.

Adobe regularly copies features from the GIMP, like content-aware fill

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

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Post by ethanwillis »

jkeat wrote: post #123
falcolas wrote: post #119

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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.

I'm in.

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

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Post by alexman »

pkamb wrote: 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…

Google Search's keyboard shortcuts are so bad. I hope they learn from DuckDuckGo's. At least give users the option to navigate the search results with 'j' & 'k' like Gmail.

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

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Post by ethanwillis »

dboreham wrote: post #164
mikegerwitz wrote: post #139

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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.

And GNU/Linux will never take off.

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

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Post by icebraining »

sanbor wrote: post #97
s73ver wrote: post #78

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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.

https://www.bountysource.com/

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

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Post by austenallred »

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…

Crowdfunding open source seems like a good idea in general (in fact I could see a platform built around that specifically), but you may be underestimating the amount of money/effort required to build something comparable to Photoshop. So I like the idea in principle, but not in this particular instance.

For what it's worth, I think Sketch is much more user friendly and is $99 one-time. Certainly not OSS, but a better deal than Photoshop for most things, and a much more user-friendly interface than Gimp (though I suppose that's subjective).

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

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Post by bqe »

rgbrenner wrote: post #134
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…

$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.

This reminds me of the joke about the economist who refuses to pick up the $20 bill on the ground because surely someone else would have already picked it up.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

s73ver wrote: post #96
amelius wrote: post #53

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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?

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

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Post by tajen »

rgbrenner wrote: post #134
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…

$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.

Seriously, how much work goes into Gimp nowadays? I seem to have the same version today as 5 years ago. I'd love to help kickstart a new beginning (run a kickstarter with a specific proposal?) but I'm afraid they're stuck with bad UI decisions and the bad decision workflow which lead to them.

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

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Post by romanovcode »

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 problem is that as soon as you start paying for something you demand support and OSS often completely lacks this. It even says so in license files.
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