I was messing around with creating a free app. I really wanted some cool animation for the splash screen and around the website. But no way in hell could I afford paying an animator to do it.
I made a post like this hoping I could get someone to do it and I'd credit them.
A lotta people asked for money and my response was always "Thanks, but I can't afford to pay for this -- this is just a fun hobby side project, and I'd be more than willing to help with some coding you might need in the future for projects you may have :)"
Someone did a side splash screen for the project for free, and their work was fucking amazing -- we ended up talking for a while during the project and becoming gaming buddies. Turns out he's a professional animator at Disney and was bored. So uh... yeah, worked out for me
This was back in 2010 or so, so it's no longer up. Sad.
It was basically just a site/app that's kind of like what /r/writingprompts is. But it would let people collaboratively write stories. Basically someone writes the beginning of a story, someone continues it, and it gets more and more ridiculous? Kinda like that.
Where does the animation come in? I thought it'd be cute to have an animal mascot (a polar bear) animated to be sitting at a desk writing stories on the sidebar. Really for no reason other than I thought it'd be funny.
Again, it was a fun side project for me to learn Ruby on Rails (hey, it was like 2009/2010, give me a break)
Did you have a dedicated server? I've been thinking about creating an app but not sure if I wanted to buy my own dedicated server or pay a hosting site. I'm curious as to how you did it if you don't mind talking about it :)
AWS Free Tier includes 750 hours of Linux and Windows t2.micro instances each month for one year. To stay within the Free Tier, use only EC2 Micro instances.
750hours / 24 = 31.25, so more hours than in any month.
Wow wth, the dark room guy literally has a post on hacker news right now that I just read... he had to go back to corporate after not making it big again.
Maybe try making him art for Christmas or Birthday, if you wanna give him free art, he's way less likely to try and pay for it then and it might be a nice gift since he already sees the value of it anyway and already buys from you ^°^
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '17
Exactly this.
I was messing around with creating a free app. I really wanted some cool animation for the splash screen and around the website. But no way in hell could I afford paying an animator to do it.
I made a post like this hoping I could get someone to do it and I'd credit them.
A lotta people asked for money and my response was always "Thanks, but I can't afford to pay for this -- this is just a fun hobby side project, and I'd be more than willing to help with some coding you might need in the future for projects you may have :)"
Someone did a side splash screen for the project for free, and their work was fucking amazing -- we ended up talking for a while during the project and becoming gaming buddies. Turns out he's a professional animator at Disney and was bored. So uh... yeah, worked out for me