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

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Post by cortesoft »

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 think they are also underestimating how much Adobe spends on developing photoshop.

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

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Post by chrshawkes »

rgbrenner wrote: post #201
zackify wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish my company spent 400k per 3 employees.

I was assuming non-sf salaries... but yes, even then, it's really pushing it to say it would pay for 3 people in the us. I was being generous.

What senior dev makes less than 100k in the USA these days?

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

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Post by cacarr »

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…

No Linux version.

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

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Post by ahmetkun »

nonconvergent wrote: post #226

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 hi…

actually they still could use google docs, as it keeps revision history for every document automatically.

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

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Post by toomanyrichies »

rdudek wrote: post #16

"Subscribe to news without paying $30/month per website" I don't think there is a legal way of actually doing this.

Seems like a "Classpass-for-journalism" model to me. It's getting the content providers to agree that's the hard part.

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

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Post by milesvp »

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.

Yeah, this joke sums up just about every arbitrage situation I think I've found. I think, naw, it must be an illusion, because the market is so efficient...

Means I end up paralysed around starting new endeavours.

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

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Post by mgkimsal »

Wish there was a way to ask people for clarification.

> https://www.demandrush.com/problems/fantasy-scifi-subscripti...

> I'd love a Netflix-style platform, website or app that, where I'd have a selection of high quality books to choose from.

Amazon has a 'unlimited book rental' subscription model (I know not all books are in there).

"What systems has this person already looked at, and why were they rejected?"

That probably needs to be a base question.

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

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Post by pjmlp »

mikegerwitz wrote: post #146
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.

That depends where you are hiring from, even within the US. You're also reaching out to people who may be okay taking a lower salary to work on a project they are already passionate about or already donate their time to. Chris Webber, for example, took less than a $40k salary without benefits to work on MediaGoblin full time for a year: https://mediagoblin.org/news/we-did-it.html

> You're also reaching out to people who may be okay taking a lower salary to work on a project they are already passionate about or already donate their time to.

The games industry gladly takes advantage of this.

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

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Post by cacarr »

blunte wrote: post #193
masukomi wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I assume you've tried Inkscape?

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

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Post by rgbrenner »

chrshawkes wrote: post #242
rgbrenner wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was assuming non-sf salaries... but yes, even then, it's really pushing it to say it would pay for 3 people in the us. I was being generous.

What senior dev makes less than 100k in the USA these days?

Who said anything about senior devs?

If you're really hung up on whether 3 is the right number, I think you've entirely missed the point of my post. Adobe has far more people working on photoshop.

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