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

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Post by Vivtek »

kowdermeister wrote: post #388
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…

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

I am literally laughing imagining the Hungarian reaction to this. (Wife is Hungarian, and I lived in Bp for a few years.)

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

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Post by Vivtek »

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.

Actually, I did a few months ago. Found a twenty on my lawn. Then found more, blown up against the hedge - ended up being a total of $180, plus the bank withdrawal slip. We took it back to the bank to return to the owner.

But it was neat, finding money just right out there on my own lawn.

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

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Post by p0nce »

tajen wrote: post #179
rgbrenner wrote: post #134

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$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.

Seriously, how much work goes into Gimp nowadays? I seem to have the same version today as 5 years ago. I'd love to help kickstart a new beginning (run a kickstarter with a specific proposal?) but I'm afraid they're stuck with bad UI decisions and the bad decision workflow which lead to them.

My biggest complaint is how painful it is to change brush size and brush opacity.

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

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Post by hackerews »

justboxing wrote: post #424
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…

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These are great suggestions. Thank you!

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

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Post by freehunter »

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.

There are a lot of posts on programming forums about "I want to build something but I don't have any ideas". This is meant for those people.

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Post by edem »

mod wrote: post #419
edem wrote: post #301

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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.

My father taught me a trick. It's not foolproof, but it's better than your version. You ask if anyone lost any money. If someone says they did, you follow up with "how much money, and how big were the bills?" Then they have to know an amount, how many bills, and what denomination. You can imagine that it's hard to fake, and anyone being genuine will have a pretty good idea of what you're holding.

Now that's a good trick, thanks!

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

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Post by p0nce »

duskwuff wrote: post #273
rdudek wrote: post #16

"Subscribe to news without paying $30/month per website" I don't think there is a legal way of actually doing this.

Yeah, that one isn't a programming task at all. It's a business problem, and not one that's likely to be solved anytime soon.

Also a task of finding what already exists.

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

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Post by jogjayr »

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.

The problem with that is there is a large variety of CMSes out there. It may not be cost-effective to write plugins for every CMS. Some of them may not not have documented plugin APIs or may not have the ability to have plugins at all. Libraries may not necessarily have the budget to buy plugins or, depending on their CMS licensing agreement, might not be allowed to install 3rd party plugins.

It might still be a cool little system to build though. I might try pitching it as a new (volunteer) project to my local library and see what they say.

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

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Post by sethrin »

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

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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…

For an educational environment I would be hard pressed to name a more appropriate device than a chromebook. From a hardware perspective the Chromebooks are cheap, practically disposable. ChromeOS is open source, but also secure and easy to manage. And there is no subscription or license cost for the 'G Suite for Education'. Even if that were true, the schools would be under no obligation to accept the gift, so it's hard to see that this is some sort of problem with the state of the law.

Generally speaking, it's pretty difficult to tell if charities are actually being charitable, and there is no way to ensure it -- we can't mark each dollar's fall. But we do have laws that cover those sort of 'hidden catch' scenario; you can't trick people into a financial obligation. Is there some other loophole that you can identify?

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

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Post by intrasight »

The title is misleading. In none of the listed projects do you "get paid". I often do "glue things together with APIs" types of projects (you could argue that all software is basically that) using modern cloud services which make it relatively easy. But doing anything takes several days and therefore costs a couple thousand dollars - the activation energy for a project. I'll always do the projects where a client is willing to pay that activation energy before doing something which is "speculative".

Having said that, I think the idea of doing something like "Upwork" but with client aggregation and monthly pricing is a great idea - but still speculative, so a great idea for somebody else to pursue.

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