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This could really benefit from a trial period, or maybe a demo project. A demo project would be neat; have it offer everything the other monthly projects will so people know exactly what they are getting into.
This seems cool, as far as I can tell it's more for one's personal education, rather than producing something for others to use? So I'm curious... is there any kind of "open-source incubator" out there? Like, a site with 500 developers signed up, they all vote on new project ideas, start a new project each month, kind of like a great big collaborative hackathon, in order to put out some really impressive piece of sof…
It doesn't seem wildly successful, but it's a nice effort, and I heard about it via a computer science student who found it interesting to participate in.
(I teach software engineering for a living.)
Neat, but I would prefer something similar to Alcoholics Anonymous. A self-support group for people who already have personal projects, want to work on them, but are either lazy or procrastinating or paralyzed by analysis. Although I would probably not pay money for either.
IMO ... a psychiatrist. If you really have that much trouble starting a personal project then you either need to fix yourself or have someone help you fix yourself. sorry for bluntness, haven't had enough coffee or sleep.
This seems cool, as far as I can tell it's more for one's personal education, rather than producing something for others to use? So I'm curious... is there any kind of "open-source incubator" out there? Like, a site with 500 developers signed up, they all vote on new project ideas, start a new project each month, kind of like a great big collaborative hackathon, in order to put out some really impressive piece of sof…
That's exactly what Assembly does ( https://assemblymade.com/ideas ). We enable everyone to openly collaborate on real products and then share the upside. Every month there is revenue Assembly transparently pays the bills and splits the remaining proceeds with everyone that built the app. disclosure: one of the founders of Assembly
This seems cool, as far as I can tell it's more for one's personal education, rather than producing something for others to use? So I'm curious... is there any kind of "open-source incubator" out there? Like, a site with 500 developers signed up, they all vote on new project ideas, start a new project each month, kind of like a great big collaborative hackathon, in order to put out some really impressive piece of sof…
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That's exactly what Assembly does ( https://assemblymade.com/ideas ). We enable everyone to openly collaborate on real products and then share the upside. Every month there is revenue Assembly transparently pays the bills and splits the remaining proceeds with everyone that built the app. disclosure: one of the founders of Assembly
I've gone through the site, and am curious about your business model. Essentially, you are creating co-op apps: how much of a cut of that app goes to the assembly team? Is it 50%, with you taking control of selling the app/making the business decisions? Or is the stake constantly changing (i.e. I contributed early, but my share gets diluted as more people work on more tasks to continue making revenue?), and you at so…
Nice idea. I don't have the time to do this right now as I'm already working on a few side projects but I'll definitely be checking back in a few months. Not too sure $30 is the right price. $20/25 feels better to me (small difference I know but $30 just 'feels' a little high).
If it was set at $20... would $10/$15 have felt right?
In your comments here, you mention the importance of your instruction and teaching, which I think is great. Perhaps make that clearer on the website?
Looks like a good idea to me.