When I first began, I thought about doing this, and I had done it for someone, they would invest in just the domain and hosting, but I'd end up doing all the co

When I first began, I thought about doing this, and I had done it for someone, they would invest in just the domain and hosting, but I'd end up doing all the coding, and I wasn't experienced enough at the time, so the idea was scratched. Nowadays, with more experience, and knowing what I know now: I wouldn't do it. It's like taking on an unpaid internship, and well, I got bills to pay. I might be willing to negotiate a lesser salary until things took off, or I had some ownership and stock in the company, which might make me change my mind. However, I did build a website, for an engineer who had a pretty solid product, and after 3 years or so of working for him, he gave me stock in his company, but thought that by doing this, he could skimp out on paying me, even though I didn't charge him very much to work on his website. He eventually found another developer and paid them what he wouldn't pay me. But I'm definitely no longer in the business of working for free, except of course, for myself.