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Re:Ask HN: Which is the most successful one-person business ... by newnewpdro on Sunday December 29, 2019 @06:52PM (#21909515)
What did your acquaintance get for their part?

I had a kindof similar situation long ago, where a friend worked for a high-frequency trading company and I had been developing a low-overhead high-precision resource and system monitoring framework. I would supply him development builds of the agents and a web login to monitor and tune their trading systems while I got some free production testing in return, it seemed fair at the time.

As things matured and I started exploring paths for monetization, when I approached that trading company about a possible contract my "friend" demanded half ownership stake in the business in return for their becoming the first paying customer.

Nope.

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Re:Ask HN: Which is the most successful one-person business ... by stanmancan on Sunday December 29, 2019 @09:36PM (#21910337)
Acquaintance got the recognition at work for the tool implementation. They also got a vastly superior solution to a problem they had at work.

I had another opportunity to develop a similar tool for another company, but the person who pitched it wanted 50% despite having nothing to offer other than the idea, so I politely declined.

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Re:Ask HN: Which is the most successful one-person business ... by readhn on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @09:58PM (#21932630)
... so you got nothing at the end?
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