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

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Post by edem »

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've once found an 5000 HUF (18 USD) bill on the floor in a pub. I picked it up and wanted to ask "who lost this?" then I realized that everybody would answer "me!" so I just kept it.

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Post by mauricemooij »

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.

Three months ago while swimming in Miami Beach I found a $20 bill lying on the ocean floor.

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

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Post by sjbase »

Super cool idea, but there's a ton of potential for misunderstanding. Example:

User: "I want {A}."

Winning developer: builds {a}

User: "This is useless to me. I wanted {A}, not {a}"

Developer: "But you never said you were case-sensitive!"

It can easily go the other way, with the user saying "Well i said {a}, but I meant {A}. {a} is useless to me." Who pays when nobody is clearly in the wrong about some ambiguity? The FAQ hints at an "initial 3 month subscription." Am I missing more info on the process?

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Post by jogjayr »

gricardo99 wrote: post #298
jogjayr wrote: post #253

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> I think that the curation aspect of it is also a big thing. The librarians at my public library are great at making suggestions. They also have themed book displays that they rotate every week (eg. physical fitness one week, high fantasy another etc.)

I agree curation is value-add. A good librarian is probably as good as it gets. Also, the internets are filled with curated lists. Book lists have come up here on HN a number of times [1][2][3], even Sci-fi specific[4]. But I get it, push button services are very appealing, and can save a lot of time. Just click subscribe and get a constant supply of books you'll love at a reasonable price. It's a business model that…

In that case, something that works with your local public library's catalog might be just the thing (and indeed something I've wanted for a while). You set up a reading list and it orders/puts on hold whatever books or movies you want one after another. You return one, the next one is ready to go. If the library doesn't have it, it will request an Inter-Library Loan for you.

Unfortunately my local public library doesn't expose any sort of API to allow this sort of thing. Only way to do it seems to be by writing a screen scraper.

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Post by sathley »

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 agree. Gimp will need just as many developers as Adobe employs, and just as much money as Adobe makes, to be more 'like' Photoshop.

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Post by super-serial »

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…

Google's Vision API extracts text in any language or format from images: https://cloud.google.com/vision/

There are a bunch of SaaS opportunities like this that could be made just creating wrappers for various cloud apis and selling to people who don't know they exist.

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

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Post by ceejayoz »

BlackjackCF wrote: post #79
pc86 wrote: post #28

> Industry-specific deep learning interviews and walkthroughs > 1 customer paying $5/mo Sounds about right.

Every single one of the projects that are on this site right now are super underpaid... It's sad that even the highest bidding project is $500/mo.

I don't think that's the bid to build it. The site's premise seems to be that multiple people would commit to being customers of a new app/service - pre-validating the market, in other words.

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Post by jessaustin »

jpetso wrote: post #270
ReverseCold wrote: post #232

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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.

I'd add that to the list of free rides for large corporations. Students getting Chromebooks aren't sucked into the Linux ecosystem and open source community that encourages you to improve parts of the system yourself. Instead, it leaves system maintenance (and learning experience) entirely to the administrator and really only provides Chrome as the operating system, with all implications. Control your data locally? W…

Sure, then I'll get a different laptop. Or maybe by that point free software on other devices will be far enough along that I won't need a laptop? The future is networked, inescapably. It's fine to advocate for local data, but don't expect that to mean data on a drive in a box on my desk.

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Post by desiderantes »

cookiecaper wrote: post #293
boramalper wrote: post #266

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And I think copyleft licenses offer a solution here: if you are worried that corporations (or rival corporations) might monetize your product (or derive any profit from it indirectly), licensing it under a copyleft license would make their lives very, very hard. It's near impossible, for instance, to keep an AGPLv3-licensed product within a walled-garden, hence good luck while trying to build a *AAS on that.

AFAIK this was the original intent of the GPL as well, but due to the common interpretation that "link" and "distribute" refer exclusively to their meanings within the context of traditional binary building and distribution (that is, they do not apply when a program is "distributed" such that its back-end is accessed through a web-based front-end), the AGPL was necessary. IANAL

That's a load of bullshit
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