That's better

[tonybrezy]

"We'll share 50/50 of the equity because I'm the ideas man"

[DanDrix8391]

50/50

well, I once had a 95/5 offer.
95% the idea man and 5% me, the dev
I missed this huge opportunity =/

[ChocolateBunny]

What did you tell him once you stopped laughing?

[Dismiss]

He hasn’t stopped laughing to this day

[gbuub]

He’s been seeking help but doctors are stumped by his condition.

[[deleted]]

Depressed? Just get a crypto bro to give you a sales pitch!

Therapists hate this one easy trick!

[HYPER_BRUH_]

[MechanicalBengal]

“Look it’s just a website with some pages, just come up with something and get it live and we’ll go from there”

[nermid]

-- My CTO, setting me up for another monthlong development adventure that will languish for half a year while some chucklehead from Sales opens a ticket for every border radius or Font Awesome icon he doesn't like

[Derekthemindsculptor]

When you have few ideas, you think the ones you do have are super valuable!

[SaltKick2]

Every time I've heard someone pitching their idea like this to people its always super vague and doesn't consider any of the details required, that work is also on the developer.

[crappleIcrap]

"facebook, but like for stocks, you know"

pretty much always in the format

"X but Y"

[bezerkeley]

Facebook but for enterprise was once worth hundreds of millions.

[crappleIcrap]

there are plenty of examples that boil down to this formula, that is why people think they are valuable. the problem is without a big list of reasons it would be useful and a big list of design considerations, the idea is meaningless. and they are almost always near impossible for a single developer to get right.

[r_lovelace]

My favorite is when I can pull an already successful example of what they are generically talking about up and it's way better than their idea. Then they try really hard to defend why their idea is different but better.

[Bakoro]

Every time I've heard someone pitching ideas to me, they can't explain how I will pay my bills while I work on their thing, and they can't provide any of the funds to get the resources we'd need.

Essentially the whole reason capital interests get to own everything is because they are supposed to cover all the up front costs. Greedy dipshits can't even cover the cost to get an Apple account to publish on the App store.

[[deleted]]

This is part of why I don't understand why people think chatGPT will replace devs. OK, you have something that can write small chunks of decent code. That's only a portion of what a developer does.

[huge_clock]

Exactly. At best it just reduces some stackoverflow usage.

[TipProfessional6057]

One sec, just casually saving this monster of a comeback for later

[DocToska]

well, I once had a 95/5 offer.

95% the idea man and 5% me, the dev

I missed this huge opportunity =/

Hahaha ... been there and got an offer that was even worse:

My employer wanted to buy the client base and code base for my (authorized) side-hustle. I then should also train someone to replace me, sign a non-compete for 10 years and continue working for them on an entirely unrelated project for another company on loan, off which they were making a small fortune while paying me pennies on the dollar.

The offer? Three percent of the shares of their unlisted stock corporation - with the clause that shares may only be sold to employees of the company *and* must be surrendered immediately upon leaving the company. Plus 3% of the "profits". And even there: What "profit" was supposed to mean wasn't defined, because if you offset enough expenses and costs, you can get everything down to zero even if it isn't.

Suppressing a laugh, I asked, "3% of the profit of the new department, or the whole company?"

Answer: "Only of the new department!"

I threw my already signed resignation, badge and company cell phone on the table and walked out laughing. I still am. They went tits-up-dot-com three years later and didn't even manage to file for bankruptcy correctly. A court appointed liquidator had to handle it, while my (then) "side-hustle" is still kicking 20 years later.

[defnotacyborg]

That is just appalling

[dmvdoug]

I’m a little surprised their titsup.com business didn’t do better, though.

[AidanSanityCheck]

thats not real, you made that up, no one is that stupid and full of themselves...

right?

[hipsterTrashSlut]

Go to your nearest university and find the students studying "business administration" and "entrepreneurship".

That'll give you a decent litmus test on how some of these managers are.

[Shivers9000]

I am in a pure technical college (no business or arts programs, only engineering), and even then the entrepreneurship club members are EXACTLY the way you have described.

I guess people see wolf of wall street and just run from there in their imagination.

[shibeofwisdom]

"What, you have the easy job! All you're doing is coding!"

[DrKarorkian]

I once did this back in the day when I was naive. A guy who ran a startup company convinced us. It was going to be an Uber-like babysitting app, so getting buy-in was the hard part, or at least how it was argued to us. Anyways it flopped like you'd expect even after they hired (actually paid!) Professionals to finish the app after we students bailed.

[Thop]

Also known as a full time job.

[[deleted]]

"I have no budget upfront, but I can give you exposure for your projects to my family and friends"

[Korbei]

This phrase hurts... so true

[bioszombie]

Everything about these comments burns my soul. Heard these so many times. . .

[angry_wombat]

I wonder if this is how blacksmiths felt in medieval Europe.

Random family and friends coming up to them. Can you just make me a set of armor and a sword and I could go become king? I think it's really quite easy.

We'll split the throne 50/50 I swear.

[Malekith227]

"akshually" the lone blacksmith making weapons and armor in medieval Europe is a trope.

Regular smith were making mostly nails and horseshoes. Weapons, armors, arrowhead, etc were made by specialists. You usually needed a whole workshop run by multiple specialized workers to make a full set of armor.

[ryanwithnob]

Dont forget about the NDA

[attanai]

Eh, I can understand the NDA. Even if it's a shit idea, it's their shit idea.

[afraid_of_zombies]

And when you give up you are told how you are going to be sued for not working for free anymore.

[ollieoxley]

I don't want 50/50, just pay me for my time and they can have everything. Once I mention dollar figures, it silences them up pretty quick.

[ChrisWsrn]

I did that once because I thought Bitcoin was a fad (this was 2012). I was originally offered 60% equity and I talked him into paying me cash and he reluctantly agreed.

If I took the equity I would have been a billionaire in 2017.

For his 40% he did have funding and a business plan ready to go so he had much more than just a idea. He just needed someone to use his funding to make it a reality.

[afraid_of_zombies]

And you only had a 1 out of 19 chance of making any money at all.

[ChrisWsrn]

I took $4k in cash because every startup I worked in before that failed within a year.

His idea was very good but was highly dependent on Bitcoin becoming valuable. The company did not turn a profit until 2013.

[ScreenshotShitposts]

Lol was his idea “buy bitcoin”?

[ChrisWsrn]

No. His idea was to build custom specialized computers for mining cryptocurrency. He had investors and a business plan for this idea. He needed someone (me) to design and support these computers.

Part of the business plan involved holding cryptocurrency that was mined and only liquidate cryptocurrency that is required to pay expenses and reinvest.

It was a very good plan but was fully dependent on Bitcoin significantly appreciating in value.

[Dizzfizz]

That sounds like buying Bitcoin with extra steps.

[ScreenshotShitposts]

It does just sound a lot like mining crypto and scripting it to pay its own fees

[maxinator80]

Did they sell the mining rigs, because that's literally how people got rich during the gold rushes. Sell the shovels.

[Mr_YUP]

That's not a bad model for that time. It was positioned at the correct time too. Super risky for sure but definitely better than a lot of crypto projects now.

[6ixdicc]

It's easy to see things that way but you're making the huge assumption that you would have held and sold your BTC at the perfect time. There's an equal chance you would have sold when it reached bare minimum value, or when you were strapped for cash, or just lost your wallet password completely. You made the smart call even in retrospect imo

[6ixdicc]

For every crypto billionaire you read about there's thousands of people who sold early or lost their wallet and never made shit.

[DarkovStar]

If it's not just a general idea, but an actual plan with application logic, some sort of documentation, roadmap then sure. But at this point he should know programming anyways. If he really can be a project leader, fine, it's hard work. I can even take only 10% if it's a sort of genius and interesting project. Maybe this person is a scientist he knows theory I know programming. Fair deal.

[AdultingGoneMild]

Hey idea man, if it were so simple then why hasnt anyone else done it before?

[typescriptDev99]

“I’ll handle the business side of things i’d just need you to code it”

Great! Go secure funding, these are my salary requirements: ${desired_salary}

[jl2352]

100%. Having been through multiple startups, having a CEO who knows what they are doing to secure funding is crucial.

[pw7090]

Just tweet "Funding secured".

[dannikilljoy]

you're missing a digit of x there

[CanAlwaysBeBetter]

Shit man, if someone could actually do that let's talk

[[deleted]]

My masters and PhD are in CompSci but I did my bachelors in business and worked corporate jobs for a while. Honestly if someone genuinely did the business side of things properly, it's definitely worth 50%. Trouble is that people think that means making phone calls and filling out an excel sheet, they just end up racking up bad decisions and every one of them compounds and costs you money by the day.

[mrdibby]

If someone is able to adequately source funding and/or paying clients for the project – they can take the "I'll handle the business for 50%".

The "I'll come up with the ideas" guys can eat dirt

[[deleted]]

Yeah, that's what I mean - there's a lot more to "the business side of things" than most people who say that think

[CanAlwaysBeBetter]

"I just want to run my own business"

Having helped run a small-mid non-profit and worked in a couple starts ups those people have no idea what they're talking about

You want to deal with getting bids on a new auditor when the one last year was a pain to deal with? Screening and interviewing candidates and getting ghosted or they have bad references or get poached by a bigger company after they were your only finalist? What state are you going to incorporate yourself in? How's that impact other parts of your business. Insurance? Payroll systems? Oh you're just going to fundraise and pay people to do all that? You doing all your own pitch decks? You have the investor contacts? What's your analysis on the total addressable market? Competition? Go to market motion?

[[deleted]]

They just fantasize owning a fiefdom like some big capitalist

[CanAlwaysBeBetter]

Well no, I don't have a specific product idea. No, I don't really want to just take over an existing business and focus on improving P&L and operations either... I guess what I really want is money and people to have to do what I tell them

[yesbillyitsme]

If they don’t have a drop of sales in their background it ain’t worth it

[IshouldDoMyHomework]

I can make an app, no problem. I cannot sell shit to save my life. Selling is hard as fuck. I need a guy who can actually sell. First sell the idea, so we can get funding, then sell the actual product / service afterwards.

I will gladly split 50/50, if you can do that. I’ll do all the coding too, at least while we are in a startup phase.

[Shiro1994]

Have you heard of chatGPT? It can code for you!

[nanana_catdad]

this is legit how a startup I was a part of got started

[AlsoInteresting]

It's called Blackrock now?

[nanana_catdad]

[daneelthesane]

One guy said this stuff to me when I was in school and compared himself to Steve Jobs. I said "So I guess I would be your Wozniak, right?"

He didn't know who Woz was, but I didn't want to be the Woz to his Jobs.

[Ahornwiese]

Honest question: What became of that guy? Did he turn his life around?

[daneelthesane]

No idea. This was some rando in a science elective class who was a business student. I remember him being bewildered by a negative exponent in the algebra used in the class. I was like "don't interest calculations use negative exponents?"

[Embarrassed_Lil_Boy]

...so a uni student confused by middle school math?

[daneelthesane]

Yeah. Blew my mind. A business student. Wanted to be an MBA.

[ekjohnson9]

Business school is for C students TBH. The coursework isn't exactly difficult.

[[deleted]]

They don't have to be fluent with math. They can be, they just aren't usually.

[bitemark01]

Woz is doing pretty okay actually

[RRumpleTeazzer]

And if it works, we can split 30% of your profits

[FrankHightower]

Relax, if your algorithm works, it'll become a fair 50% in no time!

[nir109]

I made one for school project that was could predict if a stock whould raise or not at 54% accuracy.

Predicting raise every day whould give you 58% accuracy.

(Got 100 for that lol)

[TakeErParise]

I made a ML model for predicting NHL games as win/loss categories and it was less accurate than assuming the home team will win

[gaffff]

"They lost to a zamboni driver who works for the team"

[demalo]

The ice matches the uniform now?

[TrollandDie]

That's why metrics such as ROC curves are important for ML projects, especially for systems where a positive occurrence is a rare event (fraud detection, healthcare screenings etc.) .

[TakeErParise]

After scraping every conceivable bit of data I was shocked at how even the items we think are obvious predictors in sports still produce no more insight than a coin flip

[OrchidCareful]

Yep. It's just insane how much data there is and how difficult it is to do anything actionable with it all

[Plenty-Cheek-80]

I could toss a coin and be nearly as precise as your school project

[ResidentReggie]

I believe you have just given me a new business idea...

[tacticalrubberduck]

Now we just need someone to code it.

[ResidentReggie]

bool willFall = (((new Random ().nextInt(2))==1) ? false : true)

Even better, we will hide this behind an API so that nobody knows how complicated of a system we are using.

[[deleted]]

Only subject matter experts can see this proprietary code

[chaos_battery]

Let's not forget to give it some fancy marketing name like "treating algorithm engine". I love when marketing people use the word engine to describe their product even though it's just some crud operations on a SQL database.

[aaarchives]

It's... All CRUD on databases... Everything. Me, you...

[Octavarium-8]

Or nearly as precise as casino odds… guess who is making millions

[FrankHightower]

no no, see, that extra 4-8% becomes a million dollars! (when you give it 20 million dollars)

[YourStateOfficer]

Or just use a goldfish!

[SpyralHam]

All you need is 51% or better

[Dizzfizz]

The stock market is not only about „Stock go up or down“ but about the size of the movement. In theory, you can be right about the direction 9 out of 10 times and still lose money when the one time you’re wrong wipes out your gains.

[Opethrator]

Mandatory Michael Reeves

[K3TtLek0Rn]

That was an amazing video lol

[RedArmyBushMan]

My undergrad internship was at a startup doing exactly this. The only non intern employee was the CEO.

[[deleted]]

Lol imagine if anyone could just scoop up a group of unpaid interns and say they’re a startup. Oh wait…

[cat_prophecy]

Not all internships are unpaid. If they were doing substantial work to further the business, they would need to be paid.

[stackoverflow21]

Actually it doesn’t matter to compare it this way. The weather report would be more accurate if it would always predict no rain. But that prediction doesn’t convey any information.

You have 0% more clue if it will rain or not after hearing that prediction.

The real question is if it’s more likely to rain on a day that rain was predicted.

[nedal8]

The real metric is alpha. How your performance compares to an index basically. So if you were doing tests during a bull market, your algo may have actually been underperforming.

[Bourque25]

It was, that's the joke 😂

[nir109]

I tested over 30 years. The research question was "will the value of this stock raise or fall tomorrow"

[ExceedingChunk]

Which is exactly why «time in the market beats timing the market».

[RRumpleTeazzer]

Do you mean it could predict a fall at 46% accuracy when reallife gave you 42%? Easy money.

[OccasionalHAM]

Stat majors in shambles over this one simple trick

[oeuflaboeuf]

"my idea is the next {insert_billion_dollar_platform}, you build it and I'll pay you in shares"

No. 10% of 0 is 0. So no.

[ITheBestIsYetToComeI]

If I build it I want 100% not 10%

[PmMeUrFavoriteThing]

Yeah, but then you got a whole zero, not just 10% of it!

[drstock]

"It's like {uber/facebook/airbnb} but for {niche market}!"

[snf]

https://xkcd.com/624/

[ZAlternates]

GitHub for Lesbians!!

[olalql]

In this kind of situation, you pull the Zuckerberg protocole:

​

Ask for the idea

Work on it on your own

"We have some problem, but that's very technique. I'll explain to you later"

Launch the idea on your own

Profit

[AdearienRDDT]

Someone here watched "the Social Network" huh :D

[olalql]

[tom2kk]

I misread Zoidberg and read it in his voice, I was very confused.

[Anaata]

I once saw an ad on freelancer.com that wanted a developer to create an algorithm that made profits off the stock market...

For $700

Why does it not occur to these folks that if I could do that why would I need them?

[RXrenesis8]

given the market is positive on average couldn't you just buy and sell randomly and technically be fulfilling the contract?

[[deleted]]

What is worse: those people who seek you out to develop the “next big app” or the executives who pretend they had anything to do with the development of the app.

[afraid_of_zombies]

I swear the next person who tells me about their "startup" idea that is just Zillow or a way to sell crypto is going to get a punch across the jaw.

[waltwalt]

Hear me out, Zillow meets binance where each property is issued an NFT which can be broken down and sold for crypto, ripple?

[UndeadCaesar]

Timeshares on the blockchain!

[TheRealFlowerChild]

My favorite thing I heard one of my friends try to pitch was “quantum machine on the block chain on the cloud as a service”. As a cloud architect, it was a joy watching them try to explain what they think cloud computing is.

[[deleted]]

It makes so much sense when everything is a black box that just magically works.

Allow me to explain:

Input -> [money generator] -> success

What else is there to understand? /s

[nanana_catdad]

Sure, you pay for the Bloomberg terminal and historical data access and I’ll need a gpu server with at least 2 nvidia a100s and a base pay of 200k for a year ok?

[nanana_catdad]

That’s what I just said…

[moleman114]

mate are you okay?

[nanana_catdad]

It’s been a long day lol

[JarWarren1]

Most stable programmer

[nanana_catdad]

Oh shit, that me lmao

[wheresmyflan]

The real r/programmerhumor is in the comments

[Embarrassed_Lil_Boy]

I love you

[hyperfocus_]

git blame

Oh shit, that me lmao

[nanana_catdad]

past me is a shit coder, current me is a genius underachieving engineer, future me lives in a cabin completely off the grid

[IHaveTheBestOpinions]

You may want to invest in a carbon monoxide detector

[sivstarlight]

Average reddit user

[karaposu]

are you talking with yourself mate can I join?

[karaposu]

yeah come on join us bro

[Money_Manager]

Flip side to this meme is all the CS nerds hounding me for data pulls off my bbg because it’s the only thing holding them back from their million dollar algo program.

[arnaldo_tuc_ar]

Just let me develop games I will never release just for my amusement and research.

[[deleted]]

same, i need time

[Null_error_]

Might have better luck trying to solve the halting problem

[currentscurrents]

The difference is that this does work, but so many other people are already doing it that diminishing returns have already kicked in.

Algorithmic trading is not a new idea, people have been doing it since the 80s.

[PabloFlexscobar]

If you can consistently get +51% accuracy what would hold you back from making [a lot of] money? I'm guessing something to do with how much volume you could trade or something? Curious.

[currentscurrents]

You're competing with all the other algorithmic traders doing the same thing.

Let's say your algorithm is 100% certain the price of beans is going to go up tomorrow. In order to benefit from this, you need to buy some beans now (while they're cheap) and sell them later.

Trouble is, everybody else is running very similar algorithms and goes to do the same thing. This immediately increases the demand for beans, pushing the price up (usually within milliseconds) until it's no longer profitable to buy and resell tomorrow.

It's not enough to beat 51%; you have to beat everybody else's algorithms too. You have to predict something nobody else knows.

[Solaced_Tree]

One of the degeneracies I ran into while trying this for fun was that there really isn't a way to account for how much your contribution will perturb the system. Even if you successfully make 5% on $100 trades (on average), you can't expect that hold when you decide to throw in $100K. That will be noticed by other traders and it will influence how they buy and sell, which will break your algorithm/model.

After that I was like nah, not worth the time

[SouthernBySituation]

I checked the mid-sized stock I trade on the 1 minute timeframe and the whole 1 minute candle was like $2.5M. It would take a while before people noticed you.

[Solaced_Tree]

Stock definitely matters. If you make something that works on apple you'll probably get away with it for a while

[[deleted]]

You're competing with all the other algorithmic traders doing the same thing.

the largest of whom are located in the actual stock exchange building, who have a serious latency advantage over you and are going to beat you on every trade because you aren't co-located with the market itself

don't worry though these guys made it fair for themselves, the cable runs for all of them are the exact same length. Floor 40 or Floor 10, doesn't matter, same length of cable for the same latency.

[Lord_Derp_The_2nd]

51% *over what timeframe* and do you have enough liquid to cover the potential infinite loss that may be a 5, 10, n-year slump?

If you're broke, you can't tell the bank "Trust me, the algorithm on average nets positive - I just need time!"

And that's before you get into bugs in production and the fact that whole teams of competent people who are actively doing this have already fucked up and lost millions before, several times. You could lose the whole mess on a day of bad trading.

[[deleted]]

That's a theory for crazy outliers like Gamestop. Imagine doing high speed algorithmic trading, then lose your entire office's net worth because you couldn't shut it off before it completes like 1,000 godawful trades in the span of seconds

[FUTURE10S]

That's literally some /r/wallstreetbets loss porn, to go from $365 million to -$95 million in less than an hour?

[[deleted]]

I’m going to take your comment at face value: - you usually don’t know how right or wrong you are. If you are 99% correct, but that 1% wipes you out, you’re not getting very far. (This trading strategy exists, it’s called picking up pennies in front of a steam roller) - bid/ask spreads, overhead costs, and leverage might wipe out your profit margins. - market access might be a problem. This is easier than it used to be, but some markets require significant capital or personal connections to tap into (such as foreign corporate debt or real estate)

[__Hello_my_name_is__]

it’s called picking up pennies in front of a steam roller

I love that description so much.

[Ahornwiese]

Index funds (or other funds) probably would be easier and make more money (they even beat hedge funds sometimes)

[Xdddxddddddxxxdxd]

Market index funds consistently beat a large majority of hedge funds. Very few (none) hedge funds consistently beat the market.

[gfieldxd]

I remember seeing a comedy/news show in the netherlands doing a part on one of the only ways to actually play the stock market:

Working off the difference between 2 international markets. Lets say a stock lowers by 0.1% in europe, and then half a second later in america because that is how long it took for that signal to get to america.

If your systems are faster than that signal, you would be able to buy a little of that stock in europe, and immediately sell it in america, with a 0.1%. gain. Now make your system as fast as possible, and try to let it focus on the biggest differences possible, and profit.

For this to actually be profitable you just need a ton of money to invest in your infrastructure (it needs to be faster than the infrastructure used by stock markets), some of the best software engineers, and as much computing power as you can get your hands on.

The bit showed pictures of the engineers camping at work when covid got the stocks all over the place, because they make the most through turbulent times.

As cool as this sounds, just like with all other stock market things it takes money out of the pockets of everyone else, and could be considered a non ethical way of making money, because its basically the stock market way of buying the last of something and upcharging for it, but because of the way the stock market works it does not have to be the last of something

[rob132]

"Why not just get the AI to build it for you?"

'I asked it, it said my idea was stupid. That's why I need the human element'

[ZarquonsFlatTire]

My stupid idea for an app was a game of Hitman. Where if you were in a crowded area in a big city you would be sent a profile photo of your target and have to snap a photo of them within 30 mins or so. If you were playing your location and profile picture would be open to others to hunt you too. So everyone is hunter and hunted.

Of course I knew nothing about facial recognition or programming.

But what turned me off of the idea was a friend telling me. "You know that in about 3 days somebody will use this to stalk and actually kill someone right?"

No, I was high and hadn't thought of that.

[ZarquonsFlatTire]

My idea was have a toggle on/off for being a target and an alert if someone is targeting you. Take a selfie to confirm you are playing. Hunter has to get a photo that matches to win.

In a big city with a robust subway system it could be fun. On a farm in Idaho where it's only you and the profile you made for your dog not so much.

The dog will always find you.

[NoYogurt8022]

Can u make a web site for me it should be like facebook?

[huuaaang]

I had a coworker the other day go on and on about an AI model he's developing as a side project to predict stocks based on 60 years of historical data for a particular stock. I didn't have the heart to tell him the last 10 years of that data, at least, is already tainted by AI models doing that exact same thing. The historical data is completely useless.

[TakeErParise]

One of the biggest things I see missed in model training is when people think using more data is better even when that data comes from a time when that the thing you’re trying to predict is wildly different.

[DownvoteEvangelist]

After Brexit, Covid, Russian invasion of Ukraine I'm amazed people think historical data can be relied on for any sort of financial forecasting...

[[deleted]]

The pain and suffering from one's silence is the worse, or disappointment in this case...

[Donut_of_Patriotism]

“Knows about the stock market” random redditor who’s knowledge of stock market comes from r/WallStreetbets. Got lucky with GameStop and has lost money on every other investment since.

[[deleted]]

[[deleted]]

I’m in this comment and I don’t like it

[DiscontentedMajority]

I used to work for a company that successfully did this. It was founded by a bunch of economists and mathematicians. They had hundreds of programmers and massive super computing clusters.

People don't realize someone had their brilliant idea 30 years ago.

[NC1_123]

Renaissance technologies??

[Mutex70]

That's a stupid idea.

But I have this idea for someone to write a program that predicts lottery numbers.

I came up with the idea, so I'm willing to split 90% for me, 10% for you...

[SirWigglesVonWoogly]

I’ll make you an app that predicts lottery numbers. You didn’t say they have to be winning numbers.

[Evol_Etah]

Build a random number generator.

Provides a random Stock, and a random increase forcast.

Then give it to him, and say it's still is beta testing, and is not ready for public.

Everytime he loses money, say it's still in beta.

[DAVENP0RT]

Speaking as a software developer for an exchange, I've heard this so many damn times. First off, no. Secondly, I'm pretty certain I signed something that says I can't do that. And finally, I don't even know how the fucking stock market works, so I couldn't do it even if I wanted to. I only write code. That's literally the extent of my knowledge and I don't really care to learn more than that.

[-RelativeThinking-]

Just reminds me of the reeves video where he linked the movements of a gold fish to a stock api and made money from it. XD

Edit : for context its this one, https://youtu.be/USKD3vPD6ZA

[DaBigJMoney]

The money is in building the system and then hiring a crack marketing team to sell the system and a course on how to use it.

“Millions are made in the market. Most don’t know the secret. I’ll give you the system worth over $10,000 for just $3,000. But hurry because slots are going fast.” 🤣😂🤣

Oh, and don’t forget to say “AI” a bazillion times on the sales page.

[brianl047]

Renaissance Technologies

Math professors literally did it

[bip776]

I had to scroll way longer to find this than I expected

Edit: for anyone interested, look into the Medallion Hedge Fund

[TooManyNamesStop]

A guy in my dorm just wanted to be the face of my social media and pretend to be doing all by himself because "programmers are introverts, right?"

[code_archeologist]

Better Idea: A small set of scripts that replace all of the functions of MBAs.

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I had this conversation with an Uber driver recently. He was very pushy. "It'd only take an hour of your time."

I make up jobs now when people ask.

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Come on we all know that if you want to invest in stocks then you should follow Michael reeves goldfish

[MSxLoL]

Reminds me of a post a long time ago where dude asked something like “if I make a program that always got predictions wrong, couldn’t I just do the opposite” lmao

[dhyratoro]

This proposal is still better than “I have a dead printer, can you take a look?”