Ask HN: For your side-projects, how do you avoid the 'money' question? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: For your side-projects, how do you avoid the 'money' question?

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Post by tomcam » Wed, May 01, 2019, 4:51 AM UTC

If I were you, I would answer with this eloquent quote: “I do not work on side projects for money. Neither do I intend to. Thats what my day job is for. I just want to involve more minds interested in similar things that I'm racking my head against”

I seriously don’t know a better way to put it. Why not use your own words?

Re: Ask HN: For your side-projects, how do you avoid the 'money' question?

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Post by anotheryou » Wed, May 01, 2019, 6:40 PM UTC

Especially side projects can avoid that question, as long as they can stay at the side. I love them for that.

(And I also prefer to take either no money or decent money for jobs for friends and acquaintances. The middle ground just lacks in reward, monetary and in gratefulness.)

It's more difficult for something that you have to invest time in heavily to have any form of success. That's when this question has to be answered and might be the most important one.

Re: Ask HN: For your side-projects, how do you avoid the 'money' question?

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Post by stefkors » Fri, May 03, 2019, 7:44 AM UTC

Also depends a bit on the thing you work on. But we have used local arts funding for this. It helped us be a little bit more formal, while having a small amount of money for the people helping out. It does comes with its paperwork/obligations though

Re: Ask HN: For your side-projects, how do you avoid the 'money' question?

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Post by deepaksurti » Fri, May 03, 2019, 8:21 AM UTC

I have an excel sheet with the following:

Project Name - Project Description - Learning Potential - Earning Potential

The one with a 'Y' in both the last columns are I prefer to work on. They are very rare though!