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Did you consider this as a potential business opportunity for yourself? My reaction on reading this was that someone should be giving you either cash or equity

• patio11 13y ago
  Did you consider this as a potential business opportunity for yourself? For a few minutes. It has poor alignment with my skills (I'm a fairly decent developer and can play a security researcher occasionally, but I'm a lot better at selling/marketing software than I am at hardcore framework development) and desired lifestyle (to whit, not wanting to be up at 4 AM in the morning having to work on Rails security issues -- today excepted, apparently). It also wouldn't play well with my plans to dedicate most of my business efforts to AR going forward. It seems more like someone should be giving you either cash or equity for your roles as both an evangelist and the person who realized this was going to be needed and organized it. I don't take money for publicity, as a matter of policy. The idea is worth about as much as the tweet it takes to describe it. The only interesting coordination problem is matching up Customer Zero with a company interested in and capable of doing the work, and that would be worth compensation, but for the fact that I was Customer Zero. I did briefly entertain the notion of banging down a few doors and selling this (on some model like "I'll guarantee you X amount of business, in return I get a payment of $Y0k when I bring it to your door") but, meh, I'm just not that interested in doing enterprise sales for things that I don't own. Heck, I can scarcely be bothered to do it for things that I do.