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

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Post by zackify »

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.

I wish my company spent 400k per 3 employees.

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

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Post by id122015 »

So this is similar to crowdfunding except that we can ask what we want to be built ?

What I'm willing to pay for but cant easily develop myself is to add features from OSX to linux. Not too many, I'd start with:

- a graphical browser like Finder where I could color tag files.

- UI/UX: do something about easier configuration of the trackpad. Even when I installed linux on Macbook the trackpad does not work the same or does not have all the tapping actions instead of clicking. I cant even drag files/links to file-browser-sidebar/dock or such things.

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

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Post by rustyhacker »

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…

Personally, I went through a similar scenario wanting little small scripts, feature requests or tutorials without having to fund the whole thing myself.

What I thought was that those request/tutorials could potentially be popular and others might be willing to even pay a little bit for it and once the sum is enough, someone would do it and get that pot of money.

For this reason, I made this little site and put some of my "nice to have" needs on there, but unfortunately, not many people go to the site.

Don't really want to promote it, but you could check it out here https://hackermake.com/

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

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Post by hackerews »

id122015 wrote: post #182

So this is similar to crowdfunding except that we can ask what we want to be built ? What I'm willing to pay for but cant easily develop myself is to add features from OSX to linux. Not too many, I'd start with: - a graphical browser like Finder where I could color tag files. - UI/UX: do something about easier configuration of the trackpad. Even when I installed linux on Macbook the trackpad does not work the same or…

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

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Post by pkamb »

slimsag wrote: post #170
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…

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.

- I don't want to own the resulting code. Open Source delivery, or a link to someone else's extension that accomplishes the goal.

- Payment on the order of $10 for some simple script, not $300+. They can make up the difference via multiple bounties, selling to multiple people, etc.

- Public question that can be found by others with the same problem (who can upvote or add to the bounty), as well as people who are able to deliver the solution. Stack Exchange, but with payment.

- I don't want anything to do with reading resumes, selecting the worker, scheduling, payments, etc. This is what I think of when I hear "freelance".

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

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Post by rgbrenner »

tomc1985 wrote: post #171
rgbrenner wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I'm well aware of the status of GIMP. I first used it 15+ years ago. I used it for many years before buying PS. I last used it maybe 6 months ago. I like to check it out occasionally when my CS subscription is up for renewal.

I actually pay, not just for CS, but an entire Windows computer to run it. The rest of my computers run Linux, and I use open source software everywhere.

I would absolutely love to switch to GIMP, if it were at all possible.

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

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Post by pavel_lishin »

austenallred wrote: post #176
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…

The logistics themselves are already giving me a headache. You have $400k, but are Gimp's developers (and they exist, right?) ready to just get an infusion of somewhere on the order of three years of salary and get to work? I assume the roadmap would change with that amount of funding.

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

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Post by dsacco »

I wish these weren't all subscription-based, because this could work for the exact thing I want:

I will pay $100 - $500 for an Arq Backup[1] clone on Linux, with the same UI polish as Arq for macOS or Windows, optional encryption, deduplication and supporting all the same backup locations, including:

* AWS S3/Glacier

* GCP Nearline/Coldline

* Backblaze B2

* Dropbox

* SFTP

* NAS

* Google Drive

If you're absolutely going to force monthly subscription pricing down my throat, I guess I'll pay up to $20/month. I want this badly.

I know about rclone, Duplicity, Duplicati, that awesome rsync/cron workflow you have, etc. I want Arq (or something just like it). Arq works flawlessly - it is absolutely superlative when it comes to backups on Windows and macOS.

I use an Ubuntu workstation as my daily driver at home and I have a MacBook Pro. Through very careful configuration I have gradually made Ubuntu about as enjoyable to use as macOS (with the exception of 1Password, which has to run under Wine). But I don't want to use the command line, or handle an API myself, or keep track of cron. Duplicati was the closest thing to what I'm looking for, but it's cludgey and started not working for me recently.

I know polished UI isn't exactly the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Linux. But if you're the kind of person who makes "Ask HN: What is your pain point?" posts or who is looking for a problem to solve, this is a burning problem I am willing to throw money at.

EDIT: I'm adding a bunch of HN comments to demonstrate the interest I've seen for this.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

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1. https://www.arqbackup.com/

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14403321

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11742226

4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9185632

5. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5718015

6. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13360604

7. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13011339

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

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Post by rubber_duck »

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.

Lol - you can get 6 senior devs (3+ years experience/independent), or a 4/4 split senior/junior devs depending on what skills you're looking for (in East Europe)

The bigger issue is if you can pull a 400k Kickstarter and manage such a team why the hell would you be wasting your time on GIMP dev - you could do waay more profitable and interesting stuff.

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

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Post by com2kid »

tomc1985 wrote: post #163
rgbrenner wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$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.

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

Indeed it did, and that plugin was hard to configure and hard to use. I remember installing GIMP just to try that plugin out, and it was not fun, it involved a lot of manual steps to get it working, and I never quite got the hang of it.

In contrast, when I got my hands on a version of PS that supported content aware fill, (which admittedly ships in the box, skipping the installation step) I was able to figure it out in a few minutes and start getting good results in half an hour. I am pretty sure I spent more than half an hour trying to get the GIMP plugin installed.

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