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Comment by mrstone | Hacker News Reader

Looks nice, but $8 for a PNG? Come on.

This 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.

What 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.

The code is open source here so im not sure why the export costs $ https://github.com/qrohlf/trianglify

Hn: Open source devs, monetize your work while keeping it open and free!

OP: does that

Hn: no not like that

IMO the price gets the attention.

If it was like, $1 or something, I would be willing to buy it. $8 is entirely too much.

It's less than a stock background costs, and less than the work would cost to recreate it yourself.

Googling "polygon background generator" will get you a dozen free or ad-supported ones.

What'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?

Not 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.

Inflation

If 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!".

I don't know you, so I'm just making this up, so given that preamble.

No you wouldn't.

HN: enjoy overpaid job and keep independent creators feeding their family in poverty.

How much is your time worth? More than $8 an hour?

Solution: don’t buy it

Paying 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_.

“You own the copyright to any patterns produced…”

PNG is just a file format.

Are you upset by the profit margin, or something else?

I don't assess the value of an image of triangles to be $8. That's all.

Kandinsky is in shambles https://www.tallengestore.com/products/figurines-at-the-grea...

For a quick sanity check, $12 is the cost of most 4K, slightly older, full length, feature films.

It is really amazing what people take money for.

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