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

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Post by hackerews »

dsacco wrote: post #188

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 goi…

Post it to https://www.demandrush.com! We're getting great feedback from folks needing products/services that don't yet fit into the initial structure we set up. Happy to help.

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

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Post by blunte »

masukomi wrote: post #145
falcolas wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He'd also need the GIMP devs to cooperate: to provide tangible feature sets with timelines, part time PR for updating and managing the Kickstarter campaign, and an part time CFO for managing the sudden influx and management of $360,000 (minus Kickstarter and the payment processor's share), dev salaries, taxes, and such. I would be curious if the GIMP dev team could reach usability parity with Photoshop on only that m…

he could always fork it and pay for other developers if the core team didn't want to participate in this. You'd rather the core team's approval and participation, but you don't NEED it.

Call it Pimp.

I would say that I'm in too, but I also need a quality Illustrator alternative that works well on Mac.

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

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Post by bertjk »

dsacco wrote: post #188

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 goi…

Do you really need it to support all of these different backends? I bet this would more likely come to exist if the authors knew they could focus on a subset of these.

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

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

rustyhacker wrote: post #183
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 o…

Not to be "that guy," but...

unfortunately, not many people go to the site

and

Don't really want to promote it

are probably related!!!

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

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Post by dsacco »

bertjk wrote: post #195
dsacco wrote: post #188

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 goi…

Do you really need it to support all of these different backends? I bet this would more likely come to exist if the authors knew they could focus on a subset of these.

It would be acceptable if it only existed for AWS and GCP at first. But ideally yes, it should aim to support a variety of them for freedom of choice and redundancy.

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

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

pkamb wrote: post #185
slimsag wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I understand what you're getting at, but the price is an issue.

I do something similar: I write very small programs for embedded systems: simple timers, sequencers, alarms, etc. for around $100. In some cases, we're talking 15 minutes of work, tops.

If I could charge just $30 and instead sell it to multiple people, I would, but the odds of that happening are so slim, I have to have a $100 minimum. The problem is that even for well-defined problems, what people need tends to be so different that the best you can do is have a common framework for similar problems. The code itself is rarely even close to identical

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

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Post by hackerews »

kuldeep_kap wrote: post #198

It's interesting how there are more comments and votes here in HN post than the projects posted and voted on the app.

Good point. Right now we're making sure only vetted projects go up - eg we chat with each person to confirm it's real problem and they'd pay.
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