Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project

Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project by k_sh on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @11:46AM (#14553556)

I've been sitting on a paywall-killer browser extension I wrote for a while... concerned about a potential CFAA violation from a big org, especially if I were to charge for it.

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Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project by kodablah on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @12:21PM (#14553786)

Make the extension generic and give away "rules" separately for specific sites. For instance, if it's just a "referer" header injector, just release it as that. And no, unless it's novel, don't try and charge for it.

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Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project by jrullman on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @04:43PM (#14555961)

I made an extension that does just that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xray/dgkdfehohjdbm...

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Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project by s73ver on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @12:17PM (#14553759)

I mean, you are essentially charging others for access to something that's not yours to provide access for (paywalled news).

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Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project by parsnips on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @12:32PM (#14553855)

I think the word you were looking for was "Stealing".

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Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project by k_sh on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @03:17PM (#14555263)

Oof, mea culpa - let me be clear, I would not charge for a circumvention tool, on moral /and/ legal grounds. That sentence was intended to allude to the original post's entry calling for "a more cost effective way to never see a news paywall again."

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