Let's crowdsource a mobile app for Seth Godin

Re:Let's crowdsource a mobile app for Seth Godin by tsieling on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @10:36AM (#4693093)

To 'thank him'? The guy makes huge bank on speaking and his books, which is deserved. He gets paid for his work, and for that he can pay for the work he receives. 'Let's work for free for a rich guy' is hardly what I call a good idea.

This isn't a dig on Seth, either, he's a great writer and solid thinker. He deserves what he makes, but I have a serious problem with giving free IP and sweat to a guy who can afford bespoke software.

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Re:Let's crowdsource a mobile app for Seth Godin by jt2190 on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @11:03AM (#4693215)

  > 'Let's work for free for a rich guy' is hardly 
  > what I call a good idea.

The whole thing might not be as economically irrational as it might seem at first. Seth Godin is a brand with a large value. Nukomeet is a consulting company and presumably the time they put into the project is returned in the form of a work that can be referenced when pitching work to new clients. For Nukomeet, it's an investment in marketing.

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Re:Let's crowdsource a mobile app for Seth Godin by zaiste on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @11:48AM (#4693444)

We put this app together in 1 hour, it's rather a quick hack for fetching RSS entries than a complicated project. In terms of design there are like 2 pages: list and single entry. You can use this code to create a « mobile app » for your own blog. I wouldn't go so far and say we give away our work for free...

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Re:Let's crowdsource a mobile app for Seth Godin by gmoore on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @12:07PM (#4693531)

agreed - I'm a Seth fan - but he can totally afford to get his own app

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