[GLLUG] I had an idea, now, How to Find a good developer?

[Clay Dowling]

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.

Here's a much better plan:

1. Find out what the existing market looks like. What you have described
sounds like several existing apps and websites.

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.

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.

4. Double or triple that estimate.

5. Get together a bigger pile of money to pay the staff you need.

6. Hire the experienced developer to assemble a competent team, and let the
experienced developer guide the technical side of the project.

The most important thing is the money. Good developers and designers are
expensive, but they are a lot less expensive than cheap developers.

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.
On Feb 2, 2015 3:18 PM, "Patrick Goupell" <patrick at upmerchants.com> wrote:

>  It looks like you  will have to find someone knowledgable about softare
> development to help you.
>
> Chuck's thoughts about the nda semm like the route you will have to take.
>
> Good luck in your search.
>
>
> On 02/02/2015 03:04 PM, Peter Christenson wrote:
>
> Hi Patrick and Chick, Thanks for the fast response.
> 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.
>  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.
>
>  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.
>  I don't know if that helps or not but that is where I'm at :)
>
>  Thank you for your time and help on this.
> Peter
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Patrick Goupell <patrick at upmerchants.com>
> wrote:
>
>>  OK, I will be the first to ask,
>>
>> So what is your idea?
>>
>>   How can we help / answer you?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 02/02/2015 01:34 PM, Peter Christenson wrote:
>>
>>  Hi all,
>> Over the weekend I had a fantastic Idea for a new website/app.
>> 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.
>> So I figured I would see if anyone here can give pointers on how to go
>> about moving forward from here.
>> I'm open to any suggestions, recommendations, or shameless plugs :)
>>
>>  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.
>>
>>  Thanks
>>  Peter.
>>
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