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

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Post by jclardy »

I like the idea, but I find the site a bit confusing. What is a "pre-subscription"? Are people paying their suggested monthly fee up front? It says that the site makes money from the first three months, so when you sign up are you already subscribing to a nonexistent service?

And as for "solving", what if they fail? Is it no commitment? Is any of the funding up front, or is it just built on the promise of possible future subscriptions?

I think the idea could work, but directing the balance between both sides is going to be the problem, a lot of the "buyers" are wanting to pay an amount that will work at scale (like $5/mo) but not really if someone is trying to bootstrap a solution.

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

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Post by wolco »

sanbor wrote: post #75
bpicolo wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Photoshop has a lot of engineering/product work going into making it better. Unless the price of it were totally absurd, it's always going to be a worthwhile expense if it's the most efficient piece of software to use, because software is typically much cheaper than labor. "Good enough" isn't the goal in this regard. In this case, Photoshop will continue to dominate (unless they get lazy/give up) because they have re…

Probably many people would be happy just using an open source version of Photoshopp 6 an they would be ok missing some of the features released in the last 10 years (like painting 3D surfaces or automatically fill a region of the picture that you delete). Sometimes companies forcing you to update your software to get your money it's not a good thing (Windows 10?). With open source there is always the chance of forkin…

Photoshop version 2 was given away for free on the adobe site a year or so ago. It works great and does most things fine.

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

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Post by iaml »

rgbrenner wrote: post #136
Nullabillity wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where is the source code or even just Linux binaries? Otherwise Affinity isn't really relevant when discussing GIMP.

wasnt the question about replacing Photoshop? Hate to break it to you, but not one person who uses photoshop uses Linux.

>but not one person who uses photoshop uses Linux

Not true: I use photoshop (albeit, not professionally) and have a subscription for it, but am writing this from linux. Dualboot exists, you know.

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

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Post by nonconvergent »

A few of these can be solved with a comment.

"Need to see revision history for View-Only Google Docs" - Don't use a shared Google Doc as the agent of record. Email it to each other as an agreed contract.

"Can't find good replacement for expensive accounting/bookkeeper service" Have you tried literally anything else? You're paying $500/month for this solution, have considered just getting an accountant and emailing him spreadsheets?

"Monthly subscription for science fiction and fantasy books" "Subscribe to news without paying $30/month per website" - Existing solutions already exist and require a supply chain and distribution rights negotiation more than they do a developer to slap it into a webapp.

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

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Post by nonconvergent »

A few of these can be solved with a comment.

"Need to see revision history for View-Only Google Docs" - Don't use a shared Google Doc as the agent of record. Email it to each other as an agreed contract.

"Can't find good replacement for expensive accounting/bookkeeper service" Have you tried literally anything else? You're paying $500/month for this solution, have considered just getting an accountant and emailing him spreadsheets?

"Monthly subscription for science fiction and fantasy books" "Subscribe to news without paying $30/month per website" - Existing solutions already exist and require a supply chain and distribution rights negotiation more than they do a developer to slap it into a webapp.

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

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Post by kirillzubovsky »

I find it a little funny how unrealistic people can be when evaluating the cost of their problem. Take this one for example: "We have hundreds of images uploaded to our app each day. The issue is some of these images have text that we want cropped out." -- willing to pay? $75/month. Baller!

Chances are this is a problem for a data-mining / ai-training platform that wants to create a better image set. They are charging clients tens of thousands of dollars, and yet willing to pay $100/month to improve the data. lol

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

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Post by adekok »

falcolas wrote: post #119
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…

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…

> you'll never get 1000 people to pay $400 each for any OSS software, no matter the price of the competitor.

Yes and no. I'm doing that right now...

The key is that I don't charge for the software as such. I charge for services, etc. around the software.

People are happy to pay for value-add, even if the underlying software is free. You just need to show value-add...

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

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Post by k_sh »

parsnips wrote: post #100
s73ver wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, you are essentially charging others for access to something that's not yours to provide access for (paywalled news).

I think the word you were looking for was "Stealing".

Oof, mea culpa - let me be clear, I would not charge for a circumvention tool, on moral /and/ legal grounds. That sentence was intended to allude to the original post's entry calling for "a more cost effective way to never see a news paywall again."
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