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I have ideas that I don't share with people that I know would be able to build them. Posting ideas I'm interested in on a site like this, for example, is not so
by bogwog 4y ago
I have ideas that I don't share with people that I know would be able to build them. Posting ideas I'm interested in on a site like this, for example, is not something I would do.
Ideas are worthless on their own. Building them is what matters. This takes time and skill. Most people on a site like this have the skills to build on an app idea, but everyone has varying levels of time. So if I post an idea here, there's a good chance someone with more time than me will read it, and might steal it. If I sit on the idea until I eventually get around to executing it, then the chance of someone beating me to market is much lower.
The worst thing that could happen is that I never build it, and no one else does either, so the world misses out. That's personally less of a problem for me than watching someone steal my idea.
- MarcelOlsz 4y agoI tell everyone my ideas all the time. So far nobody has ever built them. The lesson I learned here, is that I am actually an idiot. Maybe you should share your ideas. You might learn something as well.
- JadeNB 4y ago> So if I post an idea here, there's a good chance someone with more time than me will read it, and might steal it. I think describing the process of telling someone a good idea, and having them act on it, as "stealing" your idea is not necessarily a healthy way of thinking about ideas.