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

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Post by 1337biz »

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 am not sure if GIMP is truly the competitor for PS. I do almost all of my editing with a handful of apps. Back then I tried doing it all with PS and the results were a lot worse as it was way to complex to understand all its features.

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Post by yesbabyyes »

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

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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 have a friend who is notorious for always finding money on the ground. He has found a lot of money just lying around.

Once, while eating a pizza with canned mussels, he felt something hard. It turned out there was a pearl in his pizza.

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Post by m4x »

LoSboccacc wrote: post #328
devoply wrote: post #256

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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 see the myth of the poor developer being robbed of the value it delivers is alive and well around this community. Here's the thing, in corporate devs are as essential as people toghtening nuts in a factory. The value one produces there is multiplyed by the internal know how, customer base, marketing reach and tight focus management, none of which it's brough by the developer. That value is stripped from developer w…

I don't disagree with this, but it isn't universally true.

Some developers are just writing code to satisfy a spec and really could be replaced by any other developer; others are uniquely valuable and significantly increase their employers value, without necessarily being recognised for it.

Good software acts as a multiplier, so it's not equivalent to tightening bolts. It's more equivalent to finding optimisations that reduce the number of bolts which need to be tightened. A relatively small amount of software can drastically increase the value of a company/process

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Post by kuldeep_kap »

hackerews wrote: post #200
kuldeep_kap wrote: post #198

It's interesting how there are more comments and votes here in HN post than the projects posted and voted on the app.

Good point. Right now we're making sure only vetted projects go up - eg we chat with each person to confirm it's real problem and they'd pay.

Interesting. I think it would be good to have just 'upvotes' so you can tell general interest with the idea. Its always good to know for creators whether there is interest from other users.

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Post by putnam »

pc86 wrote: post #28

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

To the now 9 people who said they want this and the rest like me who didn't enter your information - do you want industry-specific (but of course company-agnostic) code examples or are you amply satisfied with audio walkthroughs, as in once or twice a week you get a free podcast, and your $11/month could pay for, e.g., transcripts of the conversations?

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Post by civilian »

jogjayr wrote: post #305
gricardo99 wrote: post #298

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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 does…

I think the path to take would be to add this feature into the library CMS systems out there. Sell it to libraries as an add-on plugin as a way to drive engagement with the library.

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Post by tomc1985 »

rgbrenner wrote: post #186
tomc1985 wrote: post #171

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Do you really use GIMP? Because I don't think you use it very much if you think that it is a quarter of Photoshop. Adobe regularly copies features from the GIMP, like content-aware fill

I'm well aware of the status of GIMP. I first used it 15+ years ago. I used it for many years before buying PS. I last used it maybe 6 months ago. I like to check it out occasionally when my CS subscription is up for renewal. I actually pay, not just for CS, but an entire Windows computer to run it. The rest of my computers run Linux, and I use open source software everywhere. I would absolutely love to switch to GIM…

Well, GIMP's interface is definitely different from PS. And I wouldn't argue better...

But PS is the only program I have ever had to take a class in to be productive in, as it was clearly built to be familiar to people with very clearly-formed ideas about workflow, e.g. old-school photography and design folks.

And switching to GIMP is possible methinks, you just have to learn the interface. Just like Photoshop...

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

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Post by LoSboccacc »

m4x wrote: post #333
LoSboccacc wrote: post #328

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see the myth of the poor developer being robbed of the value it delivers is alive and well around this community. Here's the thing, in corporate devs are as essential as people toghtening nuts in a factory. The value one produces there is multiplyed by the internal know how, customer base, marketing reach and tight focus management, none of which it's brough by the developer. That value is stripped from developer w…

I don't disagree with this, but it isn't universally true. Some developers are just writing code to satisfy a spec and really could be replaced by any other developer; others are uniquely valuable and significantly increase their employers value, without necessarily being recognised for it. Good software acts as a multiplier, so it's not equivalent to tightening bolts. It's more equivalent to finding optimisations th…

Tru but the few of us that really push the envelope are few, are pulling serious $$$ already and hardly move the mean.

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Post by jpetso »

jessaustin wrote: post #309
jpetso wrote: post #270

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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.

If we can make a future happen where I can control software and data on a remote device, in a way that works for students, then sure. Otherwise, I wouldn't count pure access to the internet/web as actual victory for GNU/Linux. (Maybe as victory for education opportunities, productivity, etc., but tying that back to Linux is a very indirect connection.)

Either way, ChromeOS doesn't contribute to taking (co-)ownership of any of the above and encouraging the freedoms commonly associated with the use of Linux. Neither does it sustainably establish even the Linux kernel as pillar of the OS, it's just an implementation detail to be hidden and potentially replaced later. So why exactly should we look at ChromeOS as GNU/Linux having taken off for the casual user?

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