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

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Post by daveguy »

nether wrote: post #142
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…

This 4chan thread is pretty illustrative of Gimp's UI shortcomings: http://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/60884056

Oh wow. No wonder my mom switched from trying linux back to windows after I tried to tell her "you can just use gimp for basic Photoshop stuff"

It doesn't even have a circle tool and the best "solution" seems to be ellipse select with shift -> fill -> shrink selection -> delete

What a dystopian ux nightmare.

Sorry Mom, for inadvertently inflicting gimp on you.

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

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Post by tuananh »

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.

400k is plenty if you can hire people from developing countries.

From my experience, you can hire a good developer from Vietnam for approx ~2k per month; which is 24k per year.

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

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Post by tuxidomasx »

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.

As a counterexample, I regularly lose cash money...

Sometimes money literally falls out my pocket when I fumble out a wad of cash while i'm inebriated.

Other times I carelessly leave my wallet somewhere stupid and the money "walks off."

Over the past 2 years, I've probably lost over $1000 this way.

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

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Post by sidlls »

chipotle_coyote wrote: post #380
sidlls wrote: post #279

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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.

I'm not convinced the $150K+ salary figures I see sniffed at on HN as "bare minimums" are quite as common even in SF/NY/etc. as people imagine they are. Startups and (some) "star name" tech companies in those areas hit those figures, but even today I still see more technical jobs than one might imagine in the $80-120K range. I'm aware a lot of software engineers insist that when they're only making $140K they're unde…

I don't work at a "star name" company, but it's in the Bay Area. $150k (+/- a few percent) is the typical base for Senior and Lead Engineer positions here. I don't know if that's typical for "not star name" places, though.

And most developers are definitely underpaid relative to the value we provide. From shabby CRUD through deep machine learning research, we're generally underpaid. Partly it's our own collective fault, though: as a group we're told constantly that passion for the product and satisfaction at "being paid [anything] for doing what you love" should be enough, and enough of us buy that crap that it effectively depresses wages.

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

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Post by gricardo99 »

civilian wrote: post #336
jogjayr wrote: post #305

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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.

That's an interesting idea. Some quick googling and I found there seem to be a number of CMS systems for libraries, some open source, some vendor/closed. That got me thinking that another angle on this would be to write the curator part (e.g. some ML model trained on reader preferences), and provide that as a SaaS to end-users. But I see that something similar already exists[1]... of course.

1 - http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/

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

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Post by smacktoward »

s73ver wrote: post #96
amelius wrote: post #53

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Except that for doctors the circle somehow doesn't close upon itself. Youtube is full of videos showing how to inject oneself. Writing a text-detection script can be done perhaps with some help from Google/Stackoverflow, but requires still some intellectual effort depending on requirements.

And when you screw up and stick it in the wrong place?

Just have them put "LolToad69 Said It Would Work" on your tombstone.

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

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Post by kowdermeister »

brady747 wrote: post #373
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.

Sounds like the Alinsky bit in "Rules for Radicals" about working inside and outside of people's experiences: "....In a similar situation in Los Angeles four staff members and I were talking in front of the Biltmore Hotel when I demonstrated the same point, saying: "Look, I am holding a ten-dollar bill in my hand. I propose to walk around the Biltmore Hotel, a total of four blocks, and try to give it away. This will…

I tried this and got exact same results in Budapest many years ago.

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

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Post by quadrangle »

quadrangle wrote: post #379

For reference, the site CoFundOS.org (which is now something TOTALLY unrelated) used to be a bounty service just like this where people all added their pledge to fund the start of some new project if someone came along and accepted the task. Not sure if there's any reference available anymore. They focused on Open Source, whereas DemandRush seems to focus on services, many of which could qualify as SaaSS even, see ht…

Too late to edit, but it might be worth adding that while CoFundOS got a good handful of projects listed and handfuls of people pledging, my memory is that none of the projects ever amounted to anything.

There's a lot of reasons why this sort of approach may seem promising but never really take off. It's also possible (though I'm skeptical) that it just takes a certain amount of design, promotion, and right-place-right-time…

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

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Post by benjiweber »

jhurliman wrote: post #297
whack wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My anecdote: I picked up a £20 note on the sidewalk in London two weeks ago.

"Woman who found £20 note on floor convicted of theft"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-391...

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