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

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Post by tempaccount7827 »

vostok wrote: post #399
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #394

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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.

Google doesn't need to charge to make a profit. Don't forget their primary business is advertising, so by getting more people to use their services, they gain. Also, by extending their reach to inside the schools, they effectively set up a way to "educate" kids to use their services.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

thephyber wrote: post #358
ranit wrote: post #322

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What are you trying to proof? How the fact that you or people that read your comment here have not seen any bill changes the probability of a $20 bill sitting somewhere on the ground?

It's an n=1 comment. Take it for what it's worth. Also, "proof" is a noun. You meant to use verb form "proove". "Proof" as a verb means to "proof-read" (to read with an editorial mindset).

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

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Post by majikandy »

thephyber wrote: post #358
ranit wrote: post #322

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What are you trying to proof? How the fact that you or people that read your comment here have not seen any bill changes the probability of a $20 bill sitting somewhere on the ground?

It's an n=1 comment. Take it for what it's worth. Also, "proof" is a noun. You meant to use verb form "proove". "Proof" as a verb means to "proof-read" (to read with an editorial mindset).

prove

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

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Post by h2hn »

amelius wrote: post #53
orcdork wrote: post #51

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You don't pay your doctor $75 for sticking a needle in your arm, you pay him for his knowledge not to stick the needle in the wrong place. Looks like we've got full circle considering this same logic was applied to devs for ages.

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.

No way man.

If you solved that problem you would be rich.

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

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Post by hacksonx »

kminehart wrote: post #158
pc86 wrote: post #28

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

I agree about that specific example, but I think a lot of people are missing the point. > Developers own the products they build for customers, and charge a monthly fee for access. So, what you're seeing is what a single user is expecting to pay. This is not like a contracting / free-lance website where someone hires you under contract to do some development work. Instead, you create the SaaS or whatever, and then yo…

So in essence the product's growth will depend on how well I built it, how much marketing I put into it and lastly how many more people will want this in the future? Nothing new there.

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

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Post by Majestic121 »

Doxin wrote: post #398
zem wrote: post #395

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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.

That's good in theory, but in practice the con men will ask for what they gave back and might get violent if you refuse.

I'd give up on ten dollars if it means not having to fight/argue this way on the street.

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

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Post by zanny »

ssalazar wrote: post #157
masukomi wrote: post #144

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and if you're building on Gimp you're WAY past "from scratch". The bulk of it is already there. Mostly Gimp just needs usability / human interaction changes.

> and if you're building on Gimp you're WAY past "from scratch". The bulk of it is already there. This could be a good thing or a bad thing if major changes are needed. A project of GIMP's size is a big ship to steer.

There is a neat feature of large fundraiser campaigns in free software you can take advantage of, in that if you do get 400k and hire 5 devs and have them work a year on a wide range of features for some software, it doesn't really matter what upstream says if the users want those features. You just fork if upstream isn't "on board", work on your own separate branch for a year, and then when all the users start downloading and using the fork the upstream will have to work with you to merge all the work done since 8000 hours of work on their project is not something they can discard.

As long as you wrote useful features then GIMP, for example, wouldn't be able to argue semantics on the patch set and tie up merging for a long time on politics. Their users would demand the features.

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

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Post by zanny »

callumlocke wrote: post #103
formula1 wrote: post #87

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Why would spending money on a brand new system with no proof of success be better than a matured application with plugin support?

Because GIMP has a lot of baggage: a very particular UI, a community of active users (many of whom probably like it exactly how it is thanks), and a terrible name.

This GIT thing is never going to take off because it has a lot of baggage: a very particular CLI and grammar, a community of active users (many of whom probably like it exactly how it is), and a "terrible" name.

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

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Post by falsedan »

Doxin wrote: post #398
zem wrote: post #395

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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.

Some people have the human social impulse wired too strongly to do that.

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

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Post by zanny »

pwthornton wrote: post #375
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…

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…

Blender, Krita, and Inkscape are all excellent in their domains. What is this nonsense about free software can't have good UX?

> copy other people's work and then make it free, causing people to lose their jobs?

Wikipedia is a fully free project and the foundation employs ~300 people funded mostly by an annual donation drive. Free software != no jobs.

And I really don't want to get into it, but for a lot of free software advocates extorting money from people for licenses using legally granted artificial monopoly of scarcity on software you don't even have to disclose for the cost is highly unethical.

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