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I have a range of such problems. On major issue is that learning what the problem is, and exactly how to solve it, is a fairly major undertaking.

Also, because I'm in research, no-one is going to pay you for your work (or if you get paid, it will be embarrassingly small)

I'm not sure how many people there are who would be willing to invest a couple of weeks learning a new topic, to then write a program in that topic without pay. Oh of course, and probably useful to provide some minimal support going forwards as well.




What kind of problems are they? What field?

I understand what you are saying about pay. But here is the counter argument for it - say you have 3 problems to solve, that can be solved with software. You don't have time or patience to code it yourself, but you know your peers and friends also have the same 3 problems. If you can clearly write down the requirements, I think there will be programmers who will be willing to work on the problem - especially if they know there are people who want the problems solved and there is a possibility of turning it into a side project or a business.

Maybe you could pick a handful of the problems, post them here and see if there is any interest?


I won't do it in this post, but I'll aim to write up a blog post, and see if it gets any interest.




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