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If you don't have $5, how do you have the resources to develop an extension?
by jiveturkey 6y ago
If you don't have $5, how do you have the resources to develop an extension?
- smilekzs 6y agoHaving to pay US Dollars can still be a big hurdle
- oefrha 6y agoNo first hand experience, but I’ve heard stories of African kids doing impressive tech stuff using very limited resources. Presumably quite a few have access to school computers these days? Developing extensions is free as long as you have access to a computer. Anyway, not having access to a credit card (also need to be capable of international payment, which is not a given) is a much bigger issue than not having $5.
- sudosysgen 6y agoThe issue is a credit card that can pay US Dollars. These are heavily restricted in a lot of developing countries, for good reasons.
- bovine3dom 6y agoI have $5 but on principle I don't want to give it to Google so that I can make their web browser better. That with the horror stories about the review process has stopped me from publishing an extension for Chrome. Edit: there was a nice article on HN last week about how relationships change once you start to have a monetary exchange, which I think suggests I wouldn't be the only one to be irrational about it [1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23104875 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23104875