This is closely related to another story that's on the front page right now called "Nobody’s going to steal your idea" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47326

This is closely related to another story that's on the front page right now called "Nobody’s going to steal your idea" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4732684 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4732684 All my previous projects were big and they all failed. The reason I started them big and loaded with functionality is that I was afraid that if I start small someone else would steal the idea and leverage their network to get traction faster than me. That was a big time consuming mistake.