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Looks nice, but $8 for a PNG? Come on.
by mrstone 4y ago
Looks nice, but $8 for a PNG? Come on.
- john-tells-all 4y agoPaying for things can be a personal connection. I adore artists work, and occasionally buy things so they can be connected to me in addition to pay rent and so forth. So it's money for _connection_ vs paying for an individual _product_.
- yellow_lead 4y agoThe code is open source here so im not sure why the export costs $ https://github.com/qrohlf/trianglify https://github.com/qrohlf/trianglify
- monsieurbanana 4y agoHn: Open source devs, monetize your work while keeping it open and free! OP: does that Hn: no not like that
- duxup 4y agoIMO the price gets the attention.
- mrstone 4y agoIf it was like, $1 or something, I would be willing to buy it. $8 is entirely too much.
- cedilla 4y agoIt's less than a stock background costs, and less than the work would cost to recreate it yourself.
- squeaky-clean 4y agoGoogling "polygon background generator" will get you a dozen free or ad-supported ones.
- crazygringo 4y agoWhat's your hourly rate as a designer, and how many minutes would it take to put together all the triangles in Illustrator? If you make more than $16/hr and it would take you 30 minutes to put this together triangle-by-triangle, color-swatch-by-color-swatch, then $8 is not too much, correct?
- cinntaile 4y agoNot just that... If he has to do any kind of customer support it rapidly becomes a money losing business at $1. Looks like it wasn't worth it at $4 either.
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- dharma1 4y agoInflation
- yakshaving_jgt 4y agoIf it were $1, you still wouldn't buy it. The customers who are this price sensitive are always the worst. They're the most needy, and the most likely to churn. When a contract is $50,000 all you ever hear from the client is "Invoice paid. Thanks!".
- jasonm23 4y agoI don't know you, so I'm just making this up, so given that preamble. No you wouldn't.
- Existenceblinks 4y agoHN: enjoy overpaid job and keep independent creators feeding their family in poverty.
- eezing 4y agoHow much is your time worth? More than $8 an hour?
- tarr11 4y agoAre you upset by the profit margin, or something else?
- mrstone 4y agoI don't assess the value of an image of triangles to be $8. That's all.
- lelandfe 4y agoKandinsky is in shambles https://www.tallengestore.com/products/figurines-at-the-great-gate-wassily-kandinsky https://www.tallengestore.com/products/figurines-at-the-grea...
- nomel 4y agoFor a quick sanity check, $12 is the cost of most 4K, slightly older, full length, feature films.
- usefulcat 4y agoSolution: don’t buy it
- diimdeep 4y agoIt is really amazing what people take money for.
- idiotsecant 4y agoThis is exactly the kind of sales model that helps everyone, though. If this frustrates you then you aren't thinking about it hard enough. The author offers the library that generates these images for free with a GPL license. If you are interested in the end product but don't want to / can't spend 8 dollars you can build it yourself easily thanks to the work the author did and released for free. If you'd rather not break out the IDE or can't then you can give the author a small amount of money to do it for you. Everyone wins. There are no losers in this situation.
- jasonm23 4y agoWhat if it makes me laugh, and congrats to the author if they generate any revenue. But still, makes me laugh at the stones required for asking $8, for a randomized image, and in the age of Stable Diffusion.
- eezing 4y ago“You own the copyright to any patterns produced…” PNG is just a file format.