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So CoderWall is their first product and I did a little fishing and 1 guy is doing all the coding as I suspected ... https://github.com/assemblymade/coderwall/p

So CoderWall is their first product and I did a little fishing and 1 guy is doing all the coding as I suspected ... https://github.com/assemblymade/coderwall/pulse/monthly https://github.com/assemblymade/coderwall/pulse/monthly And in this case the guy gets a much smaller piece of the pie than a founder would. Too Little incentive for the kind of people you need in a startup.

bitsweet 12y ago
Just a heads up, Helpful was actually the first Assembly product. (https://github.com/asm-helpful/helpful-web/pulse/monthly https://github.com/asm-helpful/helpful-web/pulse/monthly) Its a community effort so some people have more time then others in a month and products on Assembly each have their own ebb and flow. It does look like just3ws did alot in October but those are probably mostly merge commits (just3ws is on the Core Team). All the partners still shared in last month's proceeds for their previous contributions though. Disclosure: I work on Assembly
- keeptrying 12y ago
  I meant assembly product that people used and had some traction.
- keeptrying 12y ago
  I'm sure if you shake the data a little more you'll see that a very small minority do most of the work. This has always been true - in corporations, in teams within corporations and in startups. I think you should evolve your product to reflect and incentivize this rather than fight it. Give the core guys the most equity - figure out a good way to calculate who those people are. Its a problem that mankind has been trying to solve forever. Instead of focussing on community, focus on creating a system that is secure for someone to start working immediately with the core-team. With deep git integration you could have somethign worthwhile there.
  - busterarm 12y ago
    How do you deal with people who make it difficult for others to work on the project to increase their own share? This is typical behavior of ladder-climbers in companies already. Is community not part of the answer to that problem?
    - keeptrying 12y ago
      I think a project that attracts that kind of person is already pretty successful.
random28345 12y ago
> And in this case the guy gets a much smaller piece of the pie than a founder would. A startup founder is (in many cases) looking for a massive payoff by placing a bet in the equity bubble lottery, with a acquihire fallback. Assembly doesn't address the same use-case as founding a company, and while it's ostensibly aimed at potential "founders", I doubt many people will conflate collaborating via Assembly and a creating a startup.
just3ws 12y ago
Hi, I'm that "1 guy". AMA

bitsweet 12y ago

Just a heads up, Helpful was actually the first Assembly product. (https://github.com/asm-helpful/helpful-web/pulse/monthly https://github.com/asm-helpful/helpful-web/pulse/monthly) Its a community effort so some people have more time then others in a month and products on Assembly each have their own ebb and flow. It does look like just3ws did alot in October but those are probably mostly merge commits (just3ws is on the Core Team). All the partners still shared in last month's proceeds for their previous contributions though. Disclosure: I work on Assembly

keeptrying 12y ago
I meant assembly product that people used and had some traction.
keeptrying 12y ago
I'm sure if you shake the data a little more you'll see that a very small minority do most of the work. This has always been true - in corporations, in teams within corporations and in startups. I think you should evolve your product to reflect and incentivize this rather than fight it. Give the core guys the most equity - figure out a good way to calculate who those people are. Its a problem that mankind has been trying to solve forever. Instead of focussing on community, focus on creating a system that is secure for someone to start working immediately with the core-team. With deep git integration you could have somethign worthwhile there.
- busterarm 12y ago
  How do you deal with people who make it difficult for others to work on the project to increase their own share? This is typical behavior of ladder-climbers in companies already. Is community not part of the answer to that problem?
  - keeptrying 12y ago
    I think a project that attracts that kind of person is already pretty successful.

random28345 12y ago

> And in this case the guy gets a much smaller piece of the pie than a founder would. A startup founder is (in many cases) looking for a massive payoff by placing a bet in the equity bubble lottery, with a acquihire fallback. Assembly doesn't address the same use-case as founding a company, and while it's ostensibly aimed at potential "founders", I doubt many people will conflate collaborating via Assembly and a creating a startup.

just3ws 12y ago

Hi, I'm that "1 guy". AMA