All my non-writing projects are stuck at "anyone good enough at software to execute what I want is too good to want to work with me because they could get a lucrative job at Google or a blockchain startup instead"
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Assuming anyone good enough is purely motivated by financial reward seems unwise. I only really know you by Twitter, but I suspect your ideas might be more interesting or intriguing or rewarding in different ways?
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Well, salary is out of the question anyway. It would have to be an equity sharing collaboration, but one whose value would be far lower in the best case than even an average software job
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it's unlikely that both nobody is available and that your idea needs unavailable talent
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Good software engineers love a challenge. So there's something else you're not saying
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fish for the ones that succeed and then get bored with the success
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Writing the specs is the hard part. The rest, I bet the community would rally around you to pro bono, if the approach is FOSSy enough







