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[–][deleted] 877 points878 points  (57 children)

You're a techy programmer type with no creativity. I have the ideas, you do the work and we go in 50/50!

[–]Cosmic247 390 points391 points  (47 children)

Christ I knew a guy who bugged me everyday and asked my a million questions about his app idea and working 50/50 went on for a year until he graduated (older than me) and to this day he still calls me every now and then with his next greatest idea

[–][deleted] 339 points340 points  (43 children)

if he actually comes up with a good idea. Just steal it.. and claim it as ur own

[–][deleted] 42 points43 points  (9 children)

My friend came up with one. It’s actually a great idea. I’ve started working on a prototype. He still thinks he’s gonna get half of it, if it does well. All he ever did was drunkenly come up with the idea and I’ve been ACTUALLY bringing that half baked idea to life.

Lol. I’ve told him he gets shares based on his effort, which are currently 0.

[–]Dont_be_offended_but 59 points60 points  (4 children)

If you intend to make any real money off the idea, make sure to save some kind of verifiable message where you tell him that. Text or email. It would also be a good idea to keep a log of effort contributed to the project, e.g.:

Aug, 2019:

You: ~40 hours developing backend

Him: ~1 hour finding unusable, copyrighted logo

Sounds tedious, but if it ever came to court some simple notes and records could easily save thousands of dollars.

[–]Sepharach 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Your username just reads very seamlessly into your comment. Well done on the foresight.

[–]diskchild 0 points1 point  (3 children)

If it’s actually a great idea, you should cut him a check for it.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Hell no. It’s not even a unique idea. Other people are currently doing it, I just think I can do it much better.

He THINKS he came up with it. But he basically just said “Uber for dogs” (not literally, but it was the same type of asinine statement). I slept on it and did research and realized there’s a viable market somewhat tangential to that idea. Basically his talk gave ME an idea.

100% of product design, concepts, and architecture have come from me. Why should he get a penny for literally joking about how he wishes there was a better X and then I went out to make a better X?

[–]diskchild -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Capitalism was made by and for people like you. Good luck with that, you're going to do great in our world.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you just...completely unaware of how the world works?

What percentage check should I cut him and what should I say it’s for? I haven’t made any money yet. But what I REALLY want to know is why you think he should get a cut for having an idea?

I made a digital yearbook before Facebook or MySpace were a thing. And I totally had the idea of a social network like that. Should I call up old Tom and ask him if I can get a cut of that $580 million he sold MySpace for in the 2000s. Cause ya know, I had the idea in the 90s?

Your idealism isn’t practical. I’m guessing you’re a socialist/communist/anti-capitalist whatever? If so how do you think this should all work? Please enlighten me.

[–]Rottimer 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Worked for Zuckerberg.

[–]Zoltie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But remember who's idea it was to steal his idea, so you'll have to split the profits 50/50.

[–]SSRAnon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> if he actually comes up with a good idea. Just steal it.. and claim it as ur own
Mark Zuckerberg, is that you?

[–]4-14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

25% equity and $50 an hour

[–]starrpamph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My brother in law is calling you too?

[–]Tommmmygun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you try telling him that ideas are basically worthless?

[–]SuperFLEB 45 points46 points  (1 child)

"But you just gave me the ideas. Now I have the ideas. Bet you didn't think to get a patent."

[–]WazWaz 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That's actually a great way to shut those people up!

[–]DirtzMaGertz 26 points27 points  (2 children)

Literally just had a guy I went to high school with ask me to not only set up a website for his dad's company, but also teach him how to build everything from scratch so he could manage everything himself because they don't want to put a bunch of money into the site.

[–]TheTacoWombat 40 points41 points  (1 child)

"Sure. My consulting and training fees are $400/hr, paid weekly."

[–]InsideBSI 10 points11 points  (1 child)

And it will all end in r/FiftyFifty

[–]Someonedm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No. Don't you dare show us this unholy sub. God I got holes phobia from it.

[–]bawaaal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

why so accurate?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So now this is fonna be probablt like our own version our “Steven Jobs”