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The FOSSjobs wiki tracks various resources for getting paid to work on open source. I added Ringer there just now, in the freelancing section, which has several other things, but nothing as general as Ringer. https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
What about FOSS one knows well and can support but hasn't coded for? Like, I'm real good at Samba and GlusterFS and Hylafax - and/or they may not even be on GitHub? Excellent work here, going in the right direction.
If you are really good at Samba, join their commercial support providers list. Lots of big projects have similar things. https://www.samba.org/samba/support/ Edit: GlusterFS has one too: https://www.gluster.org/community/consultants/ Edit: unfortunately iFAX doesn't list other companies on the HylaFAX support page, but probably being active on their community support could get customers. https://www.hylafax.org/suppo…
I'm wondering what Ringer will do for these kind of case.
Or if Ringer is only for GitHub libraries, or smaller projects or...
https://www.ringerhq.com/terms-of-service
Why won't you notify about changes to the terms? At minimum a notice at login would be a good idea.
Maybe add some links to Wikipedia for the (presumably USA?) laws users are prevented from using the site when affected by the laws.
Wow, it is long. Please add a summary to https://tosdr.org/ :)
Looking at your ToS: https://www.ringerhq.com/terms-of-service Why won't you notify about changes to the terms? At minimum a notice at login would be a good idea. Maybe add some links to Wikipedia for the (presumably USA?) laws users are prevented from using the site when affected by the laws. Wow, it is long. Please add a summary to https://tosdr.org/ :)
Looking at your ToS: https://www.ringerhq.com/terms-of-service Why won't you notify about changes to the terms? At minimum a notice at login would be a good idea. Maybe add some links to Wikipedia for the (presumably USA?) laws users are prevented from using the site when affected by the laws. Wow, it is long. Please add a summary to https://tosdr.org/ :)
What about FOSS one knows well and can support but hasn't coded for? Like, I'm real good at Samba and GlusterFS and Hylafax - and/or they may not even be on GitHub? Excellent work here, going in the right direction.
I want to allow it, but I need to work out a way to do so whilst making sure that we don't end up with a free for all - that means manual review perhaps, but I agree that it would be very helpful if we can make it work.
Re GitHub - we've built on GitHub initially but would love to extend to other platforms in time!
I do think there's a challenge in that... as a developer, paying $58 for half an hour that may save me 8 hours is a no-brainer, but this feels like a difficult thing to ask "the boss" to pay for. It gives off Fiverr vibes, and usually there's much more ceremony around billing contractors/consultants.
But if you pitch this to big business needing big support (a context in which this feels like a stupidly good deal), it may also drive up the price by changing the expectation from the ringers as to what they are providing.
I'm rambling, I know... I wish you luck. I'm definitely watching this space. It seems like you've found a definite potential market, but I think it's going to be hard to capture it.
Is this right? Experts in software like Jest and Storybook think an hour of specialized consulting in the software is worth only $116? There's definitely a market opportunity if this is true, but it seems too good. I do think there's a challenge in that... as a developer, paying $58 for half an hour that may save me 8 hours is a no-brainer, but this feels like a difficult thing to ask "the boss" to pay for. It gives…
I do think there is a balance, especially when the request comes from an individual vs a business and we're actively looking into ways to solve this. I have partially realised that educating developers on value driven pricing is going to be part of my job now!
Thanks for the well wishes!
I've tried platforms like this and have secured basically zero revenue from any of them so I'm hesitant to go through the whole stripe setup process unless I get some confirmed work out of it.
So my suggestion is to allow maintainers/dev to show up to potential clients before having them go through the whole stripe process.