When people ask you to build their IT idea

Geek Nasty

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I've had it happen to me a few times, but damn. If I spend time on my own to build something like that, you're crazy if you think I'm taking an employee's cut. I'm talking 50% minimum and that's if it's a great idea and I need your connections. You better be bringing more than "business acumen" :camby:
 

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Take em to the cleaners if you can.

That said, 40k for a months work of work ain't bad.
 

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Anyone with a real idea is going to put you under some kind of contract hopefully. You only get ripped off when you do business with your friends. You obviously want to put a random clown under some kind of contractual agreement so he doesn't take off with your idea and or money
 

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I was an "idea" guy before. Then I learned to program. I see both sides of it. I can see why coders don't want to build projects for other people, especially people with limited finances and no backers, now I know what it takes to build apps/sites. But let's not shyt on business types too hard. Most of the shyt we use everyday wasn't theorized by hardcore coders. They were created by idea guys, who got coders to write it or rewrite their fukked up first iterations. Being a coder is kinda like having an English degree. You may have a thorough understanding of the English language, grammar, syntax, etc. But can you write a novel though? People will forgive a book with some errors or one that isn't written as well, if the story is great. Whereas nobody cares how grammatically sound or how technically proficient you are, if your book is fukking boring and about undiscovered plants in the Galapagos Islands or some shyt like that. In literature, people like that who have no creativity become editors. Programmers like that end up staying code monkeys. If you strictly talking about startup ideas, knowing how to program doesn't mean shyt if you have no creativity.
 
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