If youโ€™re a non-technical person who wishes to start a project, and think you can convince a developer to work for free - donโ€™t even bother.

You better have deep pockets and pay them or learn to code yourself. Or raise VC. Or just contribute to an open source project instead.

Even if they do decide to join you, it likely wonโ€™t last as they didnโ€™t conceive the idea.

Not saying it never works, but having seen this up close over and over, it usually never does.

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This was me so I learned to code

Devs are too expensive to hire ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

There you go ๐Ÿ˜‚

I might end up using a LLM to fix those issues then.

How much is โ€œdeep pockets?โ€

My hourly rate is $175.

US based I take it?

I am

But I'll give you a portion of the profits if it ever becomes successful. It's a great idea once you hear it. It's practically done. I just need someone to figure out how to make it happen.

Ah yes, you can even have 3% equity!

Itโ€™s even worse when other freelancers ask for free work.

Currently in the learning to code phase, and I don't understand what's happening but it's working for some reason. AI helps sometimes.

Experiencing this right now for satsigner.com

Have you considered the project could hypothetically be fun though? ๐Ÿ˜Ž

"You could use it for your portfolio!"

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