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Re:Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems? by davidjnelson on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @01:18PM (#17239844)
Who wants to work on monetizing open source by working hard to create a reliable way of paying the project creators to do the interesting work as what they get paid for?

Now that sounds meaningful. Email me if you agree.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems? by abj on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @05:09PM (#17242086)
Would you mind elaborating on what you had in mind?

It's a good idea. There should be an easy way for a small team to capture the value that their open source project creates. There are a variety of crowdfunding platforms like Patreon that are doing something similar. CodeMill and Bountysource are paying developers directly for adding features.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems? by blackrock on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @06:23PM (#17242605)
Interesting idea.

Maybe a software repository site, where users must watch a 30 second commercial, before they can download the software. Then a percentage of the profits made from selling that commercial is shared with the programmer.

Sounds like sourceforge, but I don't know how that site is monetized, or if they share the revenues with the project creators.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems? by davidjnelson on Friday June 08, 2018 @02:02PM (#17268061)
I worked on that for a while. If anyone would like to join me let me know.
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