Show HN: I built a platform to allow devs to make things without raising finance

Hey guys. I've been working on this on and off for a few years with a couple of others. It's essentially a model that merges Crowdfunding and Open Source in that it allows people to invest their time & expertise (rather than money) into projects that interest them and collaborate with others on those projects and share the profits between themselves.

It's quite cool because it's not really been done before. So as the value of users' contribution grows, tracked by points like sprint/story points and whatnot the proportion of the share of the profits you get increases. We provide all the tools to distribute the money to everyone in a project + project management tools, a peer review system etc. etc.

The aim is to enable developers, programmers and engineers (etc.) to create equitable and autonomous projects, keeping money, investors and banks out of your projects so you can focus on collaborating and building without having to quit your job, hire a team, compromise on ambition, deal with investors/investment nor piss around with payment processing and regulations.

I'm trying to give it a go. Note: the "upload media" step is really annoying.

The error message I'm getting is "1_QnlzdbGUlNNNlDRWAwnlsQ.png: Something went wrong with the file upload operation. Please try again later!"

In general I would definitely not make having media a requirement, since there are lots of requirements you have listed and so a lot could go wrong here, preventing people from using the site. Let them add it later. I'm gonna keep trying things, but wanted to mention this in case I give up.

Edit: okay, I was able to get past that via uploading some stock image of a beach. Besides that, seems like an interesting idea and the site was well written and designed. I'll see what happens with my post. Having a "Project Manager" or other type of leadership position might be helpful too. Cool stuff.

You keep posting this. The post from a couple months back got some positive feedback. Rather than copy/pasting the same intro comment, which makes this look spammy, why not update HN on what is different from the last time it was discussed?

This already exists, it's called a computer.