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Non-dev friend : hey I've got a cool idea, we'll create a site where people can post jobs and people can bid for it. We'll name it freelance.com. We gon be rich!!!!..

Me: okay....

Friend: so you in?

Me: No.

Friend: It's really easy, just build it like you built that website you did the other day (talking a landing page he saw me do in a week). In 2 weeks, we'll be millionaires. You'll do all the programming stuff, so you get 30% of the money, I'm the idea guy so I get the other 70%. About that, you in now?

Me: have you heard of odesk, freelancer, jobberman.

Friend: no... Does a freelance site exist.

Me: boy, it's 2016.

Friend: I just thought of it few minutes ago and my other friends thought it was a great idea.

Me: πŸ™ˆπŸ™ˆπŸ™ˆπŸ™ˆπŸ˜ΆπŸ”«πŸ”«πŸ”«

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  • 19
    Actually, I really do have some very good ideas but I don't have enough spare time to develop them. I am working on some of them almost every day but it takes so long before they will be finished.
  • 14
    @CodeMasterAlex leak some ideas maybe? For inspiration..
  • 9
    @HoloDreamer You really think I will just give them away? I only do so in a serious collaboration after having received a signed non disclosure agreement.
  • 9
    For those percentages I'd develop... sure. But not an inch above what the specs are. So.. those millions of things he/she was expecting such as editing a job offer or deleting..."sorry not in the specs didn't know you wanted to delete stuff"

    Amazing how people thing the idea is worth something per se.
    Boy do I have ideas for football players, houses boats!! Let me pitch them to a contractor see if that 30-70 works...
  • 4
    @codemasteralex you could just share one idea, the worst one perhaps......

    The community needs it
  • 3
    That's funny. I always have friends saying they have the idea of the century and that we are going to become rich. When I hear their project I'm like: Yeah sure... 😩
  • 5
    Ideas are like assholes... Everyone's got one. Execution? Another story....
  • 0
    @rtannerf No, I have a very very creative mind and have already realized some of my ideas, which turned out quite well. Of course that doesn't count for all ideas but you should never give up if you fail.
  • 0
    Well clearly several people beat him to it
  • 3
    The curse of modern times: almost every time you get an idea, google will show you that someone else got it before you did.
  • 5
    Idea is only 10%. Execution is 90%.
  • 0
    Ideas are like relationships
    Projects are like partners

    Not every one works nor would you want to share it with everyone.
  • 0
    Yeah, that sort of thing sucks.
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