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Oh man - I feel a lot of history with these images - they actually inspired one of the first online businesses I tried to make. I wanted to put one of these im
by exochrono 8y ago
Oh man - I feel a lot of history with these images - they actually inspired one of the first online businesses I tried to make.
I wanted to put one of these images on my wall, but they were niche enough that I couldn't find anybody selling them. I printed one myself using Zazzle, but then I started thinking that it would be cool to create a place where anybody could share cool niche images they found and have them automatically be available as a poster. I built my site - https://postercoop.com https://postercoop.com - over a couple of months at the beginning of last year.
Per probably the second-most common fate of hacker projects (after not getting finished at all), I lost interest before doing much marketing or figuring out any sort of product/market fit, but it definitely an empowering experience to at least see a project through to going live on the internet and learn for myself that "build it and they will come" is for the most part a wishful fantasy :D
- dwaltrip 8y agoCool site! Just ordered an awesome poster of the star-birthing region in the Orion Nebula (https://postercoop.com/posters/45/ https://postercoop.com/posters/45/). Thanks for building and sharing your project.
- cellu_cc 8y agoFrom the description on that poster "The artist’s share of profits from sales of this poster will be donated to NASA." How, Though? You can't donate to NASA
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoYou can order pizzas for employees?
- jdavis703 8y agoPotentially... I vaguely remember my anti-corruption training, and the dollar limits for receiving gifts and meals were fairly low.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoSo work with the pizza place to get a special 95% discount then hand them cash "not related to the order". For something that's obviously a good faith contribution everyone involved will err toward the side of rubber stamping it as ok. The rules are just a rule of thumb that we can apply evenly at scale to avoid corruption. When there's legitimately no corruption happening the rules get more flexible. If it ever becomes an issue HR will frown (because rules) but legal will apply the duck test and conclude that ~$10 pizza/person paid for by someone who doesn't need/want/isn't in a position to benefit from preferential treatment is not corruption.
- HillRat 8y agoTechnically, you can give money to a federal agency, but (with few exceptions) they in turn have to forward the money to the Treasury for the general fund.
- exochrono 8y agoI think as long as it's unsolicited you can send them money - https://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/npg_img/N_PD_1210_001G_/N_PD_1210_001G__main.pdf https://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/npg_img/N_PD_1210_001G_/N_PD_12...
- zerr 8y agoIsn't NASA quite well funded already? Sky is the limit (or not..) of course, but I'd rather prefer a donation to those with immediate needs.
- rootbear 8y agoNASA contractor here. Our funding has been slowly declining in recent years, with some years better than others. It's currently about 20 billion USD, or about 0.5% of the US budget. We are not what I would call "quite well funded", but we manage. A project I support, WFIRST, is currently over budget (as most space telescopes have been) and is constantly under threat of being cancelled. The recent shutdown cost the Government far more that what is needed to finish WFIRST. Details of the NASA budget can be found at the inevitable Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
- exochrono 8y agoOh damn, thank you! :D
- manigandham 8y agoHow do they look when printed? Are you sourcing the original images?
- exochrono 8y agoI think they look really good when printed, actually! Here's a photo of them on my wall haha - https://imgur.com/a/1PwN6UD https://imgur.com/a/1PwN6UD (kpop and SF planning posters are not from my site ;)) I sourced the images for printing from the NASA space colony website - https://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/70sArt/art.html https://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/70sArt/art.html.
- klohto 8y agoWant to expand to European market? :)
- exochrono 8y agoHaha, I just need to add a country selector to the order form. I can do that in the next couple of days :)
- solarkraft 8y agoNice site! I absolutely love the Visions of the Future posters (took a while to process 3gb of tiff to png) and would love to order one printed, but don't see where I can choose the country to ship to ... Is shipping geographically limited for now?
- JacobDotVI 8y agoThis is awesome! I did a similar thing a couple of years ago for framed prints of space: http://omgspaceisawesome.com http://omgspaceisawesome.com