>Sounds like that would devolve into a situation where people are trying to exploit others for free work.
And it sounds like this is one of them. The OP is "trying to come up with an idea that will make an income when I'm not doing my day job to pay the bills":
If you can't pay someone to do it, even at some of the low rates I see on elance, then learn to do it yourself. It would be a different matter if this were someone asking for input on the code he had written, but just asking someone to do it for him is unseemly.
I'm 100% in favor of a feature on HN where existing open source projects ask for help and/or contributions, but someone who's starting up a for-profit business and asking for free labor leaves a very bad taste.
I've had would-be clients like this, who ask me to do work for free or at a significant discount since "it's related to your open source work, anyway, and you could even use it in your project". Made the mistake of accepting work from a client like that once, but never again.
And it sounds like this is one of them. The OP is "trying to come up with an idea that will make an income when I'm not doing my day job to pay the bills":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9833548
If you can't pay someone to do it, even at some of the low rates I see on elance, then learn to do it yourself. It would be a different matter if this were someone asking for input on the code he had written, but just asking someone to do it for him is unseemly.
I'm 100% in favor of a feature on HN where existing open source projects ask for help and/or contributions, but someone who's starting up a for-profit business and asking for free labor leaves a very bad taste.
I've had would-be clients like this, who ask me to do work for free or at a significant discount since "it's related to your open source work, anyway, and you could even use it in your project". Made the mistake of accepting work from a client like that once, but never again.