<story><title>&quot;I&apos;ve got an idea for an app&quot;</title><url>http://chriseidhof.tumblr.com/post/9873846899/ive-got-an-idea-for-an-app</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gyardley</author><text>So let&apos;s say I take the author&apos;s advice, &apos;always listen to ideas&apos;, and unlike the author, get told an awesome idea by a friend-of-a-friend with zero ability to execute.&lt;p&gt;Great, now what?&lt;p&gt;Do I really set up a working relationship with this person, who&apos;s likely dead weight and valueless now that the idea&apos;s been revealed? Do I give him the ownership he thinks he deserves, which is a 50-50 split if I&apos;m lucky? Do I just build it myself?&lt;p&gt;I prefer to avoid such ethical quandaries, which is why I stick to my own ideas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dangero</author><text>Exactly. The other day I was hanging out with some relatives from out of town and my uncle dropped that famous line, &quot;I have an idea for an app.&quot; I had been functioning under the same notion that I should always listen to people&apos;s ideas, so I listened.&lt;p&gt;He then says, &quot;I&apos;ll tell you, but if you build it I want 50%.&quot; I said, &quot;Fine.&quot; In my mind I&apos;m thinking, &quot;No way I&apos;m building this.&quot; Then he says, &quot;OK, my idea is a contact management application for the iPhone. They have them for the PC, but they don&apos;t have them for the iPhone.&quot; That&apos;s it. That&apos;s his whole idea.&lt;p&gt;That&apos;s when I realized I should stop listening to people&apos;s ideas about apps because he just basically told me that I can&apos;t build any contact management apps without giving him half the profits. If I listen to too many people&apos;s ideas, I won&apos;t be able to build something without being sued because someone else &quot;gave me the idea&quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>&quot;I&apos;ve got an idea for an app&quot;</title><url>http://chriseidhof.tumblr.com/post/9873846899/ive-got-an-idea-for-an-app</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gyardley</author><text>So let&apos;s say I take the author&apos;s advice, &apos;always listen to ideas&apos;, and unlike the author, get told an awesome idea by a friend-of-a-friend with zero ability to execute.&lt;p&gt;Great, now what?&lt;p&gt;Do I really set up a working relationship with this person, who&apos;s likely dead weight and valueless now that the idea&apos;s been revealed? Do I give him the ownership he thinks he deserves, which is a 50-50 split if I&apos;m lucky? Do I just build it myself?&lt;p&gt;I prefer to avoid such ethical quandaries, which is why I stick to my own ideas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SandB0x</author><text>This is why movie studios explicitly say they won&apos;t read your scripts and film suggestions if you send one in. They want to be able to make a film without the danger of being sued for stealing ideas.</text></comment>