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

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Post by cookiecaper »

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.

It happens any time the same class of content producers expect to get paid for their content. It gets channeled through brokers, who inevitably end up with the power. People find it annoying to pay 10 people $10 every month; they just want to pay the Content Person $100/mo instead.

In TV land, this is called "cable". Many people apparently do not realize they have re-invented this for websites.

We need a platform that facilitates payments easily and transparently _without_ seeking to bloat itself to extremes. Then content authors and content consumers can still interact more-or-less directly and we won't have the problems that are typical with big content brokers.

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

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Post by guimarin »

cookiecaper wrote: post #292
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…

Wouldn't this already be effective as long as the project was under the umbrella of an appropriate 501(c)3? Not necessarily the repatriation bit. I'm not a tax expert by any means so I am legitimately asking. From a quick search, it looks like the IRS does sometimes allow businesses to make deductible contributions to a 501(c)3, but that it first attempts to determine if the business expects to receive a "substantial…

One easy way around this is to do what all the NYC foundations do. That is, give to other people's charities, and they in turn will give to yours. That is only small potatoes compared to donating to a political campaign and taking the money you don't spend on the campaign off the table tax free. A lot more things make sense through that lens. I could imagine a situation where Google who doesn't benefit from every OSS project, gives to project that Facebook benefits from, and Facebook to one's that Google does ad infinitem.

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

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Post by taneq »

rectang wrote: post #347
1dundundun wrote: post #300

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Laughing a sinister laugh as I super glue a $20 to the sidewalk...

Classic Candid Camera from the 60s: "Bill Under Tire" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP8V53_YdMI&t=1m08s The last one is the best.

Or this one: https://youtu.be/49xiMfzjpSs

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

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Post by devoply »

LoSboccacc wrote: post #339
m4x wrote: post #333

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I don't disagree with this, but it isn't universally true. Some developers are just writing code to satisfy a spec and really could be replaced by any other developer; others are uniquely valuable and significantly increase their employers value, without necessarily being recognised for it. Good software acts as a multiplier, so it's not equivalent to tightening bolts. It's more equivalent to finding optimisations th…

Tru but the few of us that really push the envelope are few, are pulling serious $$$ already and hardly move the mean.

Internal knowledge is not held by the company it is held by individuals within the company. At best what you are arguing for is that there are enough people that for a given salary you can use to replace your existing people and can pick up what they are doing quickly enough that they are replaceable. That is not the same as your disrespectful assertion that your average dev is the same as a person who tightens bolts. Even the most simple development tasks require a significant amount of knowledge and at least a few years of experience that only a small number of the population can actually perform.

It's true that an individual can't do the same things a company can do. That's not some profound assertion. It's however impossible to go from that and assert that is because they are incapable of doing those things even if they had the funding to do so. That is to say that the marketing issue is more or less an issue of funding or money. That is what keeps that individual devs from capturing more value that is instead captured by companies or by managers, marketers, etc. As well as hiring additional people to form an actual company that performs the functions of a company. However a significant number of founders are developers, many of them including Paul Gahram and Mark Zuckerberg average developers that went to found multi-million to billion dollar companies because of funding. Now after the fact maybe you can argue that there was something special about them, but that's a post-facto assertion. They were average devs and if they had not gotten the funding would be relegated to your nut bolt tighteners not having been able to express their "true" potential.

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Post by tzs »

gricardo99 wrote: post #121

>Monthly subscription for science fiction and fantasy books Isn't that the public library?

I'd suggest magazines, such as Analog, Asimov's, or Fantasy & Science Fiction. Each issue will give a mix of short stories, novelettes, and novellas, and they also serialize a novel or two a year. Mix of newer and established authors.

I suppose technically Analog and Asimov's no longer meet the monthly requirement, because they recently switched to 6 issues per year, but each issue is now double-sized so it is the same amount of material as they published before the switch. (That wasn't actually quite monthly either. It was 10 issues a year, with two of them double-sized).

Subscribing to two of these magazines would be under the $8 month people said they would pay (that's for the ebook edition...paper I think is a little more).

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

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Post by slantyyz »

jessaustin wrote: post #312
callumlocke wrote: post #103

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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.

The name was "terrible" right after the film "Pulp Fiction" was released. Decades later, is that still true?

That word existed well before Pulp Fiction.

From Dictionary.com:

>> Usually Disparaging and Offensive. a term used to refer to a person who limps or is lame.

>> Origin

>> An Americanism dating back to 1920-25; origin uncertain

>> Usage note

>> When describing someone who is lame, gimp is used with disparaging intent and perceived as insulting. But within the disability community, it is sometimes a term of self-reference.

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

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Post by m1sta_ »

justboxing wrote: post #240
adekok wrote: post #229

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> you'll never get 1000 people to pay $400 each for any OSS software, no matter the price of the competitor. Yes and no. I'm doing that right now... The key is that I don't charge for the software as such. I charge for services, etc. around the software. People are happy to pay for value-add, even if the underlying software is free. You just need to show value-add...

> The key is that I don't charge for the software as such. I charge for services, etc. around the software. Yep. Matt Mullenweg & his crew at WordPress have been doing the same thing, and are wildly profitable at it.

It's not just about profit. It's about lifestyle.

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Post by thephyber »

ranit wrote: post #322
whack wrote: post #274

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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.

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).

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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

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Post by s73ver »

tomc1985 wrote: post #171
rgbrenner wrote: post #153

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I pay for creative suite. GIMP is very far behind. There are many significant core features missing, and many tools missing that make it difficult and time consuming to use. It would be more accurate to call it 'advanced paint' than photoshop. CS is expensive and I use a small part of its features... if GIMP covered just 25% of what photoshop could do, I would use it. But I think the only people who think GIMP is clo…

Do you really use GIMP? Because I don't think you use it very much if you think that it is a quarter of Photoshop. Adobe regularly copies features from the GIMP, like content-aware fill

People have said that, but they can only mention the one feature. That, from what others have said, didn't work very well on GIMP, but worked well on Photoshop.
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