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Old 10-29-2011, 09:59 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Lightbulb 50/50 SHARE IN PROFITS TO DEVELOP MY IDEA

Hello everyone,

It is not often that I come up with brilliant ideas, however it frustrates me when it isn't in an area I am familiar with. This happens to be one; I have a great idea for an app, but am no app developer and do not hold an Apple Developer Account. I am looking for someone to work with me on my idea, and we will split the profits 50/50. I am sure that this is a fantastic idea, and that there is nothing like this currently on the market. I am on a tight budget however, and will only be paying out of profits.

If you are interested this app revolution please do contact me at:

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I hope to hear from you soon.
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Old 10-29-2011, 10:18 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Hello everyone,

It is not often that I come up with brilliant ideas, however it frustrates me when it isn't in an area I am familiar with. This happens to be one; I have a great idea for an app, but am no app developer and do not hold an Apple Developer Account. I am looking for someone to work with me on my idea, and we will split the profits 50/50. I am sure that this is a fantastic idea, and that there is nothing like this currently on the market. I am on a tight budget however, and will only be paying out of profits.

If you are interested this app revolution please do contact me at:

mpkn20@narayans.info

I hope to hear from you soon.
No developer is going to go for a 50/50 when they have to write the code as well as develop the artwork. Hell, not many developers are even going to want to profit share. Ideas (and only very, very good ones) would be worth 10% at best.
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Old 10-29-2011, 10:24 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Hello,

I could just sell the idea, but I would have to sell it at a high price to make a profit. It was also be annoying for the person who purchased it, if they don't like my idea or can't work with it. I would much rather work together with a developer to work on this idea. I don't have much money, I could just pay you a flat fee for development. However it would be more profitable for you to be payed for the lifetime of the app.
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Hello everyone,

It is not often that I come up with brilliant ideas, however it frustrates me when it isn't in an area I am familiar with. This happens to be one; I have a great idea for an app, but am no app developer and do not hold an Apple Developer Account. I am looking for someone to work with me on my idea, and we will split the profits 50/50. I am sure that this is a fantastic idea, and that there is nothing like this currently on the market. I am on a tight budget however, and will only be paying out of profits.

If you are interested this app revolution please do contact me at:

mpkn20@narayans.info

I hope to hear from you soon.
Not that I'm interested as such but I'm curious to know if you would be contributing in-detail design work & documentation, testing etc for your 50%?

Most people given a few hours and a few beers can come up with 'the next big thing' and most independent developers are likely to be able to develop their own ideas without the nucleus coming from an external source and of course they want to keep their profits.

Not sure you understand just how much work goes into an app. The 50/50 split would only work if you contributed close to 50% of the work. A good app will take 2 / 3 months at least & depending on the functionality there will be other resources (server stuff etc) to be paid for.
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Not that I'm interested as such but I'm curious to know if you would be contributing in-detail design work & documentation, testing etc for your 50%?

Most people given a few hours and a few beers can come up with 'the next big thing' and most independent developers are likely to be able to develop their own ideas without the nucleus coming from an external source and of course they want to keep their profits.

Not sure you understand just how much work goes into an app. The 50/50 split would only work if you contributed close to 50% of the work. A good app will take 2 / 3 months at least & depending on the functionality there will be other resources (server stuff etc) to be paid for.
Hello,

Thank you for taking the time to post, I have reconsidered my offer and have changed my terms. I will now be offering 90/10 (90 to the developer and 10 to me). It isn't a very large idea, and I believe it won't take too long to make. I will be contributing as much as I possibly can. The job will mainly involve working with existing APIs. I will of course be testing, compiling documentation and contributing design work.
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You know what, here's my idea:

A thesaurus app, which simplifies difficult words through a tap. The user will use their camera and hover over the text. They will then tap the word(s) they are unsure about to get alternative definitions.
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You know what, here's my idea:

A thesaurus app, which simplifies difficult words through a tap. The user will use their camera and hover over the text. They will then tap the word(s) they are unsure about to get alternative definitions.
Not a bad idea but a lot harder to implement than you might imagine. You would need an OCR (optical character recognition) library to parse the photo of the text. I say photo as I doubt there would be anything fast enough to work in realtime. Then you would need a Thesaurus. It might not be easy finding these two components free to use for commercial purposes. Finally you need to put it all into a nice UI.
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Not a bad idea but a lot harder to implement than you might imagine. You would need an OCR (optical character recognition) library to parse the photo of the text. I say photo as I doubt there would be anything fast enough to work in realtime. Then you would need a Thesaurus. It might not be easy finding these two components free to use for commercial purposes. Finally you need to put it all into a nice UI.
Sounds a bit like "Word Lens", but using a thesaurus instead of a language dictionary. (And with a thesaurus, you couldn't just display the replacement word(s) in place, like Word Lens does, but would have to display them separately).
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