Hi everyone,

a friend and I are currently in the progress of developing an app. We are psychology grads and are currently looking for capable app developers / software engineers to help us in dev. since our competence is very limited in this respective field.

I‘ve got two main questions:

  1. How / where do we best look for help? Since we do not yet have investors on board we are not able to pay a salary. We are therefore looking to onboard app devs on a SitC (shares in the company) type of deal. Where do we best look for people that are wiling to hop onto a start up and work for 0 payment in the beginning.

  2. How do we make sure that the people we approach do not run off with what we pitch them? Are NDAs enough? Couldn‘t they just tell a friend and nobody can track whether they said anything or not? I do not get IP at all and don‘t understand how we can actually protect the idea in the very early stages of recruiting.

Thanks a lot!

  • otakudayo@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This is probably not the right place for such a question.

    But I am a developer, and this part here:

    How do we make sure that the people we approach do not run off with what we pitch them?

    It’s not a realistic concern. Or rather, if your idea is so good that this is a realistic concern, you should learn how to develop the app yourself. But I really, really doubt that is the case. Generally, ideas are worthless if you can’t execute. Presumably your idea relies at least somewhat on your knowledge about psychology, and probably other knowledge/skills you have that a dev won’t have.