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

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Post by duskwuff »

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…

My guess was actually that this would be for some sort of image site, to crop attribution information out of images. :/

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

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Post by tomhallett »

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.

This comparison also ignores other products in the market which already fill this gap. Yes, GIMP could be improved with a bigger budget, but in that time frame would it be better than Pixelmator which only costs $30? And if it is better, would that type of customer value it at your proposed $400 vs $30 for a product which already works right now?

[1] http://www.pixelmator.com/mac/

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

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Post by duskwuff »

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.

Yeah, that one isn't a programming task at all. It's a business problem, and not one that's likely to be solved anytime soon.

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

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Post by whack »

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.

Yes, people love to laugh at this mythical economist, but seriously, when's the last time you saw a legit $20 bill just lying on the ground? I've never seen this even once in my life. Perhaps this mythical economist is the one having the last laugh.

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

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Post by vermontdevil »

cortesoft wrote: post #241
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.

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

When you load up PS, you see a list of people involved. It's a lot more than 3 FTEs.

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

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Post by IceyEC »

whack wrote: post #274
bqe wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes, people love to laugh at this mythical economist, but seriously, when's the last time you saw a legit $20 bill just lying on the ground? I've never seen this even once in my life. Perhaps this mythical economist is the one having the last laugh.

I found a fiver not to long ago...

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

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Post by pascalxus »

iandanforth wrote: post #149

I would strongly suggest that there be an option to list existing solutions. A sustainable model means identifying real needs, not duplicating products that people are merely ignorant of.

excellent suggestion. OP, please include this feature.

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

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Post by grej »

devoply wrote: post #256
milesvp wrote: post #246

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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.

Yeah the market for open source is shit. You have tons of corporations deriving billions in total profit off the back of open source that contribute maybe a million back and feel that they have done some great great deed... like say Google. You could easily make the Gimp much much better with a few million in funding. The beauty of capitalism is exactly that it locks out this sort of behavior because of the way that…

I wonder if anyone has ever thought of a law that would allow for large corporations to repatriate some of their overseas dollars tax-free, or defer corporate taxes they'd otherwise have to pay, provided they went toward altruistic purposes, where one of those altruistic purposes could be contribution to broadly used open source libraries.

Obviously a lot more of the details would need to be worked out to try and minimize how much companies try and game that to simply fund their own research tax-free, but I wonder if the type of behavior you're looking for could be economically incentivized given the right corporate tax legal reforms.

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

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Post by sidlls »

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

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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?

Plenty, outside of the usual suspect locations (SF, NY). A six figure salary for devs, senior or otherwise, is unusual outside those areas. It's not unheard of, but it's not typical, either.

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

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Post by nhatbui »

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.

The day trader who picked up the $20, ecstatic from his arbitrage win, puts down on the ground a $100 hoping for larger gains.
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