How to get your idea stolen

Re:How to get your idea stolen by nperez on Thursday September 11, 2014 @11:42AM (#8303220)

This is way too dramatic and unprofessional for my tastes (Facebook chat logs? followed up by a generalization about the 8.3 million strong population of NY based on experiences with one guy? a little growing up is in order.)

I'm sure this can be debated and I could be wrong, but I don't feel that ideas are worth fighting over. If code is stolen, that's not cool. You can build two codebases based on the same idea and they will be valuable in different ways. If someone takes the time to follow through on implementing "your idea", they still most likely worked hard to get it done and deserve credit for that.

The best way to deal with this is to compete. Write a better app. Ideas are cheap.

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Re:How to get your idea stolen by algorithm_dk on Thursday September 11, 2014 @11:46AM (#8303248)

Ideas are cheap - good ideas aren't. Thanks for the redaction observations - I edited the article.

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Re:How to get your idea stolen by angersock on Thursday September 11, 2014 @12:26PM (#8303514)

Most ideas aren't "good"--only ideas with strong implementation are "good". Nobody gives a shit about your hackathon project that you can't manage to make a business out of.

If you really think this is worth is, go build a company and show him wrong.

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