Ok, this is an idea that's been floating round in my head for a few days. Basically if more than one person wants the same service they get together and buy it as a sort of buying co-op.
I guess it might work for design work, but I'm thinking more programming. There's some scripts I need to get made, which might cost a lot and not be used that much. Rather than me pay say $500 for a script, I'd rather share it with 5 people, each paying $100. Make sense?
We'd have to deal with licensing, resale, etc case by case I guess. Fuck, if enough people wanted something and were prepared to chip in a small amount we could even make the resulting script freely available.
There's some great programmers here, maybe they want the work, maybe not - if we used someone unknown it would also be spreading the risk.
Obviously, on a public forum this won't work for anything 'secret', but for things like keyword tools that could benefit a lot of people without giving away niches etc it could work..
Just a thought really - what do people think? Good plan or shit idea?
I guess it might work for design work, but I'm thinking more programming. There's some scripts I need to get made, which might cost a lot and not be used that much. Rather than me pay say $500 for a script, I'd rather share it with 5 people, each paying $100. Make sense?
We'd have to deal with licensing, resale, etc case by case I guess. Fuck, if enough people wanted something and were prepared to chip in a small amount we could even make the resulting script freely available.
There's some great programmers here, maybe they want the work, maybe not - if we used someone unknown it would also be spreading the risk.
Obviously, on a public forum this won't work for anything 'secret', but for things like keyword tools that could benefit a lot of people without giving away niches etc it could work..
Just a thought really - what do people think? Good plan or shit idea?
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