Ask HN: Solo app-developer, to incorporate or not incorporate?

Re:Ask HN: Solo app-developer, to incorporate or not incorpo... by slater on Friday December 28, 2012 @10:24PM (#4980967)

I was always under the assumption that you should incorporate, if only to avoid (some?) financial risk if Patent Troll Company #981271 comes forward with a "Method or Apparatus for [whatever your app does]" patent and sues you for $bajillions$

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Re:Ask HN: Solo app-developer, to incorporate or not incorpo... by iaw on Friday December 28, 2012 @11:54PM (#4981179)

Thanks. That's the impression I'm under as well and there will be a small risk of litigation that I've already recognized.

The problem with incorporating is that I've heard that the legal shielding properties of corporate (or llc) status are not that protective for sole-proprietors and that the company's liability is still the owner's liability.

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Re:Ask HN: Solo app-developer, to incorporate or not incorpo... by thejteam on Saturday December 29, 2012 @08:01AM (#4981956)

Depends on how big the potential judgement is. If you are looking at small numbers, then nobody is going to go through the work to prove you personally liable unless you really screwed up and made it easy. If you are looking at 10 million dollar judgements... if this is a risk buy liability insurance.

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Re:Ask HN: Solo app-developer, to incorporate or not incorpo... by slater on Friday December 28, 2012 @10:25PM (#4980968)

(IANAL, tho)

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