I’m not a programmer, so I can’t really do it myself. Is it allowed for me to go to some random dude, pay him 20 bucks to write the code, then have him add it to the GitHub?

(If you’re wondering what the app/feature is, I want to be able to shuffle play on the findroid app like you would be able to on the jellyfin web interface )

  • lukewarm_ozoneEnglish
    51·
    4 hours ago

    Developers usually make $50-300/hour.

    That seems like an overestimate even for US. More importantly, I don’t think most open source developers earn this much money (otherwise they wouldn’t ask for tiny donations), and hence it’s not the relevant figure. If I’m wrong about this, please do tell me - I very much would like to know if the hours I occasionally spend on open-source contributions can instead earn me hundreds of dollars. ;)

    • Apathy@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 hours ago

      You’re not wrong, I don’t know why people are downvoting you.

      Somehow they believe the wages paid in the US is normalized everywhere else.

      Some senior developers in the EU for example make a salary of ~60k euro. Which roughly translate to 30 hourly.

      Not to mention third world country where all these Corporations outsource their work.

      Mind you OP asked about a open source project and not a scaled enterprise software