Show HN: Assembly – Help build a product, get a share of it

Re:Show HN: Assembly – Help build a product, get a share of it by keeptrying on Thursday November 06, 2014 @06:32PM (#8570448)

I'm sure if you shake the data a little more you'll see that a very small minority do most of the work.

This has always been true - in corporations, in teams within corporations and in startups.

I think you should evolve your product to reflect and incentivize this rather than fight it. Give the core guys the most equity - figure out a good way to calculate who those people are. Its a problem that mankind has been trying to solve forever.

Instead of focussing on community, focus on creating a system that is secure for someone to start working immediately with the core-team. With deep git integration you could have somethign worthwhile there.

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Re:Show HN: Assembly – Help build a product, get a share of it by busterarm on Friday November 07, 2014 @11:46AM (#8573374)

How do you deal with people who make it difficult for others to work on the project to increase their own share? This is typical behavior of ladder-climbers in companies already.

Is community not part of the answer to that problem?

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Re:Show HN: Assembly – Help build a product, get a share of it by keeptrying on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @11:57PM (#8594087)

I think a project that attracts that kind of person is already pretty successful.

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