Hacker News Reader

The Teddy Ruxpin with the sync'd movements is crazy impressive.

Having to provide an address and a credit card before the drawing is obnoxious, but it's led me to realize that if I really wanted things that played Green Day, I could make most of these things myself.

View on HN

…yes, well, it’s quite common for people to pay others to do things that they could do themselves but would rather just do something else. That is kind of how the world works.

Also, in the case of pure art, paying for something trivial is like voting.

I don't think that the GP was necessarily complaining about the money, but about the inconvenience of the payment.

> Having to provide an address and a credit card

You don't usually complain about providing an address if the only factor is the payment/price.

I suspect the GP would have been fine paying if they had an extremely low-friction payment system (e.g. one-click).

Reply on news.ycombinator.com