Jon

I went that route many years ago, and had a spam program made that made me a SHITLOAD of money. We're talking MILLIONS within a 10 month period.. but because my programmers were super shady fuckers, they took it, and re-sold it for $80 a pop to everyone else. It quickly became saturated, and the network phased out the way it worked, so although we only had 10 months of being the only ones using it, some people ask how pissed off I was, and I gotta say, at the time, and for a few years later, it was a really sore subject for me. But now, I look at it in a different way, that I'm lucky I didn't approach the programmers sooner and say "here's $25k, now keep quiet" because then they would have caught on to the real value of it, and sold it sooner.

Here's the deal..

When you have a very limited budget, and you need top quality developers, then you need to either save up for it, or make them sign an NDA. Don't use foreigner programmers/developers for it. I know they are more cost effective, but our rules and laws don't apply to them usually, so having them sign an NDA would be the same as having them sign a blank piece of paper. You MUST use someone in your country so that if they turn around and fuck you over, you have legal options to pursue, and can actually profit off of a bad deal like that. Yes, they are a lot more expensive, but what would you rather do, spend a small amount of cash and get it done, only to find out later that they are selling it behind your back and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it, or have someone who may cost more, but if they do fuck you over, you can sue the bejesus out of them and recoup all costs not to mention shut them down for a long time or stop them from ever profitting on your stuff again. Instead of me spending the $250 or so I spent to have that bot created for spamming, I DEFINITELY would have shelled out $10k for a US programmer/developer to ensure that I would remain the only one using it for years and years.

Also, you can try to team up with someone who has the cash to help you develop it and split up the revenues in exchange.

Like someone else asked before about sources.. We are one of those sources. We are ALWAYS looking for developers/programmers with ideas for apps. We have developers and programmers that can do pretty much anything, and/or if the developer/programmer approaches us, we can work out an agreement so that it's mutually beneficial for both parties. Again, we are also VERY upfront in letting you know right away whether we are interested in it or not.. and unlike pulling a Chris Lingle or Lee Dodd, we won't steal your ideas if you bounce it off us.

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