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

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Post by biztos »

chasing wrote: post #113
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 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).

I pay $10/mo and that includes Lightroom, which is impressing me more every time I use it. In fact I'd probably pay the $10/mo just for Lightroom, and then I could say that Photoshop is free. :-)

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

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Post by ReverseCold »

GoToRO wrote: post #210
ethanwillis wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And GNU/Linux will never take off.

As far as casual user is concerned, it didn't. Large corporations instead enjoy a very nice free ride (all the servers).

Chromebooks are already outselling Macs. A lot of (most, even?) American schools are buying Chromebooks for students to use because they're simple and work well.

ChromeOS uses the Linux kernel.

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

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Post by coss »

kirillzubovsky wrote: post #228

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 chargin…

It's just 1's and 0's, how hard can it be?

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

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Post by H1Supreme »

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.

That's absurd.

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

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Post by rgbrenner »

H1Supreme wrote: post #235
rgbrenner wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

That's absurd.

FYI Photoshop doesn't work on Linux.. so not so much absurd, as factual

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

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Post by biztos »

TekMol wrote: post #217

"Copyright 2017 DemandRush" - I'm always surprised when I see these types of statements on US based websites. In Europe, this would make no sense. A website is not a legal entity, so it can not be a copyright holder. Does the statement make more sense in the US, or is it just a common misconception among people who build websites? The terms page says "Welcome to DemandRush, a website and online service of Grafly, Inc…

IANAL etc. but I do think it's a common misunderstanding / wishful thinking in the US (where I'm from). In the US you can just "be a company" if you want (with no liability protection), that's between you and the tax man... but if you want to give the operation a name other than your own, you have to register that name (they call it "DBA" for "Doing Business As")[0].

But at least as far back as the early 90's it's been common to put "(c) MyCoolDomainName.com" on a web site, and I'm pretty sure most people mean "copyright ME until/unless I get around to making a business out of this, and if I do then copyright whatever business ends up owning the domain name." And I would assume, though again IANAL, that's not quite what it really means.

Unlike, say, Germany, the US has no requirement for anything like an "Impressum" for a web site. Nor could it, really, due to the constitution. (But I Am also Not A Supreme Court Justice so my interpretation of the constitution may be less sticky than others'.)

[0]: https://www.sba.gov/starting-business/choose-register-your-b...

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

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Post by shams93 »

kirillzubovsky wrote: post #228

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 chargin…

Yeah like replace Quicken for $500 a month, maybe if I was living in a place with no infrastructure I could pull that but then I would never see the site or the post.

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

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Post by justboxing »

bqe wrote: post #177
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.

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.

LOL. Hadn't heard this one before.

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

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Post by justboxing »

adekok wrote: post #229
falcolas wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

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

Yep. Matt Mullenweg & his crew at WordPress have been doing the same thing, and are wildly profitable at it.

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