I was contacted this week by an old acquaintance, and he had a proposition for me.
"Hey, I hear you're a programmer! That's great, because my buddy and I have
this idea for a business. We have everything important figured out, and all we need is a programmer to throw
The red flag came earlier than the author indicated.
No, you don’t.
You don’t have buy-in from, seemingly, anyone. You don’t have investment to pay for labor, meaning that no one except you and some other daydreamer have any faith in your idea.
Which puts your idea on par with my niece’s idea to have ice cream for breakfast, and her brother’s endorsement of it.
An idea being simple - even by the standard of someone without the ability to assess its simplicity - still doesn’t make it a good one.
Hmmm seems like she might be on to something there!