<p dir="ltr">Skip the NDA, and don't worry about somebody stealing your idea. Ideas are worthless. How you execute on that idea, that's what is valuable.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Here's a much better plan:</p>
<p dir="ltr">1. Find out what the existing market looks like. What you have described sounds like several existing apps and websites.</p>
<p dir="ltr">2. Figure out what is going to make your product different from all of the others, that will make people want to use your product instead of somebody else's product.</p>
<p dir="ltr">3. Get together some money to pay an experienced developer to evaluate your idea and make a rough guess at the time and staffing your product is going to take to bring to market.</p>
<p dir="ltr">4. Double or triple that estimate.</p>
<p dir="ltr">5. Get together a bigger pile of money to pay the staff you need.</p>
<p dir="ltr">6. Hire the experienced developer to assemble a competent team, and let the experienced developer guide the technical side of the project.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The most important thing is the money. Good developers and designers are expensive, but they are a lot less expensive than cheap developers.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And seriously, don't even think about the NDA. Your idea isn't worth anything. The thing you build from it is the thing that will have value.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 2, 2015 3:18 PM, "Patrick Goupell" <<a href="mailto:patrick@upmerchants.com">patrick@upmerchants.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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It looks like you will have to find someone knowledgable about
softare development to help you.<br>
<br>
Chuck's thoughts about the nda semm like the route you will have to
take. <br>
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Good luck in your search.<br>
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Christenson wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Patrick and Chick, Thanks for the fast response.
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<div>Although I'm very excited about sharing my idea in detail
with anyone and everyone, Chick hit the nail on the head, I
don't know how much should be shared at this time. </div>
<div>
<div>however I will share that it is a meal planning and
shopping list tool that would be available via browser as
well as mobile app and maybe even a desktop app. with the
goal of helping the end users, without adding more
complexity to their lives.</div>
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<div><br>
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<div>because I haven't done this before I'm unsure what steps
need to be taken, and in what order. what I do know is,
what I want it to do, how it should look and act, and that I
can't get it there by myself.<br>
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<div>I don't know if that helps or not but that is where I'm at
:)<br>
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<div><br>
</div>
<div>Thank you for your time and help on this.</div>
<div>Peter</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Patrick
Goupell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:patrick@upmerchants.com" target="_blank">patrick@upmerchants.com</a>></span>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> OK, I will be the
first to ask, <br>
<br>
So what is your idea?<br>
<br>
How can we help / answer you?
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<br>
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<div>On 02/02/2015 01:34 PM, Peter Christenson wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi all,
<div>Over the weekend I had a fantastic Idea for a
new website/app.</div>
<div>I know that its going to require hosting,
management and the like, and I plan on using as
much Foss and Linuxy goodness as possible, but
before I can do most of that, it needs to be
developed and I'm not a developer :( and that
has me stuck spinning my wheels. </div>
<div>So I figured I would see if anyone here can
give pointers on how to go about moving forward
from here. </div>
<div>I'm open to any suggestions, recommendations,
or shameless plugs :)</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I just don't want to see a good Idea be die
off before I get the skills to do it myself....
because that might take a few years.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Thanks</div>
<div> Peter.</div>
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