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Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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ill code whatever dumb idea somebody wants as long as i get paid. i dont work for “potential” or “future profits”
“Once in a lifetime opportunity man!”
“It shouldn’t take you more than a week bro”
Give them a stack of note cards, make them draw/write out what each screen and page of the app will do. That amount of work will be too much for them
Had the same when i was studying for product design. Friends and family would come up to me and tell me they had a great idea for a product. And I’d always ask are you the one who is going to invest tens of thousands of euros, maybe even hundred thousands, to produce it?
I had a stripper pitch me on a social media website for 15 minutes. Do you have any idea how annoying someone has to be in order to be THAT hot and I think “I don’t want her to give me a lap dance”
“Run, programmer, run!
Narrator: “They could not handle the business”
Ideas are easy; coding is hard. 😓
Real!
i am the friend with the idea and the programmer ( yes i am my own friend , love ur selfs )
And when they say they’re “handling the business,” they actually mean just cashing the cheques and leaving the hard part to you
People are still pitching app ideas?
Fried: I have a unique idea for an app.
Me: Tell me about it.
Fried: Ten minutes of Bla bla
Me: (After two minutes of googling) Such an app already exists.
Give me $25K upfront with $75K upon completion, then we’ll talk.
And no, that’s not an “if the app is profitable.” I want my $100K even if the app has 0 sales.
I have an electronic engineer friend. Same for him in the physical world. Sometimes he just hangs up… it’s kind of a joke anymore.
Tell them to go use AI
Cool. Do up a marketing site and generate leads. Create a prototype using no code and once you prove there is a market for it, then I’ll consider coming onboard.
Ah, a tale as old as time.
Ok, so hear me out: It’s basically Facebook but if anyone I don’t know comments on, or messages me anything, tries to serve me an ad, poke me or recommend me a news article, the app forces a power surge on their mother board and melts their CPU
Use ai man it replaced us
Didn’t it
They’ll be saying this shit while we’re both in the same damn class learning the same damn shit.
From experience I’ve learned they really can’t handle the business.
Sounds good to me. I get 90%.
And it’s always someone who doesn’t know how to run a business
Huh. Weird. Who has friends who are *not* programmers?
Maybe that is a relative?
Friend who thinks they have a billion dollar idea would be more accurate.
Tell them to show you a business plan and any commitments from investors. If they have raised capital proceed.
See the nice thing is these folks usually get bored after two messages anyway. Speaking as a writer who gets a lot of “I have this idea can you write it!?”
I treat them and their idea with respect and just tell them the economic reality. I make 200k a year with 0 risk or real stress or difficulty. For me to get involved with a start up again, which is something I’ve done before, I’d need a tremendous amount of upside, and I need to be able to maintain my lifestyle through out the process, and this is what that would take and I usually tell them the only type of person who would do it for the little they’re willing to give them is going to have 0 experience and there’s a high chance they will fail or give up half way and abandon you, but it’s really the only chance.
“It’s just like Facebook but”
“NOOOOOO”
Kid ran so fast his leg flew off
“Billion dollar app idea” needs to be in quotes.
I handle the business and chatGPT handles the coding. Then I hire a developer to refine the coding. It has worked very well for me.
lol if they got money, tell them to use ai and if they can’t make it work then pay up. 50/50 partnership or else.
Love it!
Is it Steve Jobs and Wozniak?
A conversation I actually had once:
“Wow. You know how to code? Want to build a trading bot?”
“I’m not a stock guy. I barely know basic programming. How would we make good trades?”
“I don’t know. Let’s build the bot anyways and make some trades.”
NOOOOPE
Ok but hear me out, it’s an app but it just has a single button that says ‘secret’ on it with a little number counter in the upper right and everytime you tap it it makes a little click noise that raises a little number in the upper right and if you don’t tap it for more than 3 seconds the number resets.
Every weei you just put out a random post with a random number where it just says ‘someone unlocked it!, well done! Can’t wait to see who figures it out next!’
And just NOTHING else.
I’m a fucking data scientist and I _still_ get people doing this to me. Like bruh, you don’t want me to code your app.
A friend and I have the greeting, “I want to build a Facebook” from this one guy who kept us on retainer for an entire year so he could spitball ridiculous ideas about creating social media platforms where you pay to upload pictures or uber eats to sell weed.
Dont forget the “Can you hack insta account” questions
I used to get this all the time, but I no longer have social interactions outside of reddit and work.
“Billion dollar ideas” are a dime a dozen, the value is in the execution and the userbase
i just wanna know what anime or manga this pic is from
“Ok sure man whatever money up front”
And I don’t see a problem.
There’s a reason why I keep all my app and business ideas private from my friends now on.
“Ask AI to write it”
my friend litteraly send me a startup idea written by chat gpt about dropshipping 3 months ago. Said i’d email him back and that mf still asks when ill get back to him