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

[Dave Crampton]

How could the question have been phrased to avoid triggering flashbacks and bitter baggage?

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> On Feb 4, 2015, at 12:51 PM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 11:10:19PM -0500, Clay Dowling wrote:
>> An experienced developer has heard this OP a lot. During a tech boom I will
>> hear it about once a month. Somebody making that inquiry isn't ready to
>> hire a developer yet. A good responsible developer will be asking the
>> questions I outlined. A bad developer will say they can do it, and ride
>> that train until the money runs out.
> 
> I also have heard this kind of thing before, particularly in the tech
> boom.  If you're like me, you heard a lot of people who thought they
> could make millions with an idea (which usually was cloning some
> popular product and rebranding it), they had no technical ability and
> expected you to work for little or nothing. ("You'll make much more
> money with all the recognition you'll get!")  I can think of at least
> one guy who would show up at our LUG meetings (in another city) and
> act like some sort of Venture Capitalist but then would ask for
> someone to pay for pizza for him because he was living out of his
> mother's basement and didn't have any money to pay for anything.
> There was another guy who actually started up a company to sell used
> computer equipment to schools, put linux on them, and then tell the
> schools they can get free support by contacting our LUG members.  He
> neglected to mention this to our LUG until after he'd started the
> business and was collecting customers.
> 
> I say this not because I think your idea is bad or that you have no
> backing, just that what you're saying brings back a lot of negative
> connotations. 
> 
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> Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
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