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

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Post by ivm »

daveguy wrote: post #381
nether wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I loved the reply where they opened Python inside GIMP and draw the circle with "import turtle".

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Post by conductr »

dEnigma wrote: post #320
conductr wrote: post #319

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My question is, what is preventing GIMP from tapping into their existing userbase? I get they are FOSS. But, they could still add in their GUI options that don't exist; then prompt donations that would go towards the features development. For example, Image > Rotate, triggers a pop-up, "Sorry, Rotating image is not currently a feature but with your support we'd love to add it to GIMP! We expect it will cost $10,000 a…

I can't quite tell if you're serious, but I don't think users would like that sort of bait and switch tactic. It would make GIMP feel like shareware that tries to trick you into paying money.

I'm serious but I don't use gimp so what do I know. I'm posing it more as a theoretical question of why can't the collective we be asked to pay for features we want. What I know of Gimp is that it has majority of the features of PS so why would the power users not be willing to pay for advanced features that probably only they use. The answer in my mind is that they are willing to pay but they pay adobe because gimp doesn't ask for money.

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

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

grej wrote: post #278
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 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 min…

The problem is a lot of those "altruistic purposes" tend not to be so altruistic, when you look into why they do them. Take for example, when Google recently chose to donate a bunch of hardware to schools instead of giving their employees an annual gift.

Google gifted schools Chromebooks, which seems like an incredible act of charity. Except for the fact that you have to pay a subscription to Google to use them. Which means they really just managed to get a tax write-off while picking up more customers.

How do you ensure a company is doing something in the best interests of society or the charity or organization they are donating to, rather than in the best interests of themselves?

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

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Post by zem »

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…

given that there are a lot of scams that start by giving the mark something in order to create a sense of obligation, it's not an unreasonable response

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

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Post by mdaniel »

Sindrome wrote: post #338

Adblocker for podcasts - HEARTLESS

In this specific case, they might be "attacking" the wrong side of the equation. For example, KQED offers a pledge-free stream for donors, because they know the subscriber and are the origin of the content (or at least a gateway to it, for upstream NPR content). I think it would be absolutely magical if I could get an ad-free feed from the podcasts I donate to already.

That said, there is no way that ads in podcasts inflict $15/mo worth of suffering upon me. The "skip ahead 30 seconds" button is absolutely perfect for not hearing yet another Squarespace ad

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

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Post by cottsak »

leke wrote: post #138
avaer wrote: post #6

> GET PAID TO BUILD YOUR NEXT PROJECT > Choose a problem below to get started. Get paid to build _my_ next project or _your_ next project? This is clearly a two-sided platform, but the messaging seems conflated: the headline speaks to builders and the instructions speak to end customers.

I immediately thought the developer would post what they are currently working on (or intend to work on), and businesses would encourage more rapid development by funding it.

But a dev can solve that themselves: apply #lean principals and launch a marketing site cheaply and start taking advance subscriptions using one of many tools that solve that white-label Kickstarter need.

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

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Post by Doxin »

zem wrote: post #395
brady747 wrote: post #373

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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…

given that there are a lot of scams that start by giving the mark something in order to create a sense of obligation, it's not an unreasonable response

The trick to those is to take the thing and then not feel obligated to do anything whatsoever.

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

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Post by vostok »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #394
grej wrote: post #278

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 min…

The problem is a lot of those "altruistic purposes" tend not to be so altruistic, when you look into why they do them. Take for example, when Google recently chose to donate a bunch of hardware to schools instead of giving their employees an annual gift. Google gifted schools Chromebooks, which seems like an incredible act of charity. Except for the fact that you have to pay a subscription to Google to use them. Whic…

> Google gifted schools Chromebooks, which seems like an incredible act of charity. Except for the fact that you have to pay a subscription to Google to use them.

Do you happen to have a reference for this? G suite for education is free as far as I know and I wasn't able to find anything else that you might be referring to.

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

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Post by webtechgal »

beefsack wrote: post #378
pwthornton wrote: post #375

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GIMP is a steaming pile of shit. It's not 400k away from being a Photoshop competitor. Maybe it is less so now, but when I last used it, I said never again. If you need Photoshop to actually get work done, the $120 it costs ($120 gets you both Photoshop and Lightroom) is well worth your money. Many people charge more for one hour of contract work than Photoshop costs to buy for an entire year. But there are very good…

> GIMP is a steaming pile of shit. Hyperbole much? GIMP is high quality software and I'm sure I'm not the only one who prefers it to Photoshop.

I second that. While I can't realistically say I prefer it over Photoshop since I've never used the later, I can certainly state that GIMP meets ALL my graphics editing requirements (which are not many, but that's besides the point).
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