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

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Post by radarsat1 »

BoorishBears wrote: post #2

This looks like such a cool idea, but already you see that the problems presented seem to be seriously underestimating how complicated what they're trying to do is. For example, detecting specific text in an image? 10 minutes in OpenCV. Detecting any text at all in any format in an image? I don't even know where to start. Maybe 10 minutes in OpenCV if they constrain the kind of text, otherwise ML? It feels like an un…

I can't speak for the site, but I think the idea is that you sort of get this continuous funding to keep working on and improving your solution. (Makes it kind of different from bug-bounty type approaches, which I like.)

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Post by dragonwriter »

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.

> 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?

1996 (±2 years) in an arcade, actually.

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

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Post by CobrastanJorji »

zimmund wrote: post #30
BoorishBears wrote: post #2

This looks like such a cool idea, but already you see that the problems presented seem to be seriously underestimating how complicated what they're trying to do is. For example, detecting specific text in an image? 10 minutes in OpenCV. Detecting any text at all in any format in an image? I don't even know where to start. Maybe 10 minutes in OpenCV if they constrain the kind of text, otherwise ML? It feels like an un…

It's also not clear how it will be used later. It could be used to crop/remove watermarks or copyright messages, and I wouldn't develop it if that's its purpose.

I have to assume that this is exactly what this would be for. 9gag or some similar site stealing content en masse from elsewhere and wanting to remove any sort of identifying marks.

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

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Post by robotresearcher »

grogenaut wrote: post #131
robotresearcher wrote: post #122

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So fork it. New name, new UI. Seashore was a try at this a decade ago. http://seashore.sourceforge.net/The_Seashore_Project/Screens...

I think the gp's point is they'd rather rewrite than fork. If you fork you lose the other devs esp as you diverge greatly. But you get all the baggage. A lot of coders doing side projects do it for fun and to learn and that often means making their own architecture decisions (and mistakes) so they can practice that process and learn

Sure. I was responding to the suggestion that the key problems with GIMP are the UI and name. The image manipulation code is surely pretty mature by now.

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

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Post by kelvin0 »

duskwuff wrote: post #273
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.

Yup, kinda like the massive undertaking Steve Jobs did to make iTunes a reality (getting the content from competing Music Corps.). An 'iNews' seems as much of a Herculean job of convincing competing news outlet to lay out their content piecemeal alongside their competitors content... tough sell!

But I do like the idea and would also gladly pay for it!

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

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Post by jrullman »

kodablah wrote: post #92
k_sh wrote: post #57

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I've been sitting on a paywall-killer browser extension I wrote for a while... concerned about a potential CFAA violation from a big org, especially if I were to charge for it.

Make the extension generic and give away "rules" separately for specific sites. For instance, if it's just a "referer" header injector, just release it as that. And no, unless it's novel, don't try and charge for it.

I made an extension that does just that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xray/dgkdfehohjdbm...

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

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Post by notJim »

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 $10 a few months ago.

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

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Post by jessaustin »

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 find coins on at least a monthly basis. I once found a $10 bill.
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