This makes little sense to me. Surely to be worth doing at all, the purchase of a "project" needs to have legal paperwork to ensure that the IP is secure, and so on. Legal fees to get that drafted and reviewed will be approaching $5k. It's like trying to sell a micro-house for $5k.
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#52Huh, if you open the dev console it says it was build with Bubble ( https://bubble.io/ ) a no-code platform.
Since this is likely my first conscious run in with a website explicitly generated through a no-code platform, I have to say my experience are very negative.
The load time is unbearable for something as simple as this.
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#535k sounds like an incredibly small amount of money. The equivalent of a week's salary in the US. What could you build in a week that would be in a position to be sold that you couldn't develop slightly longer for significantly more than 5k profit? Edit: whether it's literally a week or a few weeks my question still remains. What could you build that would be ready to be sold in such a short amount of time that you co…
5k is a lot of money to the vast majority of the world. It is a considerable amount of money to most software developers.
It's two laptops. Hardly a king's ransom.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
5k is a weeks salary? Thats 260k a year. That is executive salary and not common at all.
Not sure where you’re located, but as others have said, this is not an uncommon or unreasonable salary for a strong developer in certain parts of the United States. You’ll have to work for certain companies in certain industries but if you value comp and you’re good at your job, this is very doable.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
$5K a week? That's about a quarter of a million a year ... is that a typical US salary?
It’s typical tech salary for people with ~5+ years of experience doing something interesting.
Is it really or is it just in the SV bubble? Or is this a case of "it's not interesting if it's not in SV"?
Sometimes reading HN gives me the feeling that there is no "tech" other than FAANG in the US. Or somehow every little "tech" company is just making FU money, which sounds hard to believe.
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#565k sounds like an incredibly small amount of money. The equivalent of a week's salary in the US. What could you build in a week that would be in a position to be sold that you couldn't develop slightly longer for significantly more than 5k profit? Edit: whether it's literally a week or a few weeks my question still remains. What could you build that would be ready to be sold in such a short amount of time that you co…
5k is a months and a bit wage in Canada. I can build a lot of things that can be worth 5k to someone else in that time.
You are severely out of touch with anyone outside of rich America.
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There is a bunch of small tools that exist online (base64 encoders, hash functions, SPF rule generators, etc). Most of these wouldn't make much money, maybe enough to cover hosting. I could imagine someone basically picking these up and collectively monetizing with ads, or other methods. Likely not suitable for a massive business, but likely able to sustain a sole operator or even a small team if operated frugally.
> Most of these wouldn't make much money, maybe enough to cover hosting. Do you have any personal experience or any other sources that estimate this kind of thing? I'm legitimately curious, I've often wondered what kind of revenue these types of things pull in. Obviously if they're not running ads and don't have any explicit monetization then it would be very little. But I always wonder about the ones that do.
I'd imagine hosting would not be resource-heavy so <$2/mo, that's why sites like these don't really need ads as the cost of hosting is negligible. is there any way of generating revenue other than plastering a load of ads onto a website? because doing so would cost a great number of users
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#58I'd love to buy a zip file library (zlib is too heavyweight)
what language?