Comments on: Developer trouble…. http://neilcocker.com/2008/03/28/developer-trouble/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:50:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Neil Cocker http://neilcocker.com/2008/03/28/developer-trouble/#comment-24 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:04:00 +0000 http://neilcocker.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/developer-trouble/#comment-24 Couldn’t agree more with you. And I’ve certainly never expected “free” work. My equity offers have always been very substantial to account for the inevitable time and effort that a dev has to put in.

But there’s a problem with the economy of web development and wicked new ideas. Good quality development is expensive, but groovy, thrusting young idea-generators like myself don’t always have huge amounts of cash!

;)

I definitely think there’s scope for finding a way of getting those two groups to work together.

Not that I’d ever be able to afford you, Stef….

]]> By: Neil Cocker http://neilcocker.com/2008/03/28/developer-trouble/#comment-102 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:04:00 +0000 http://neilcocker.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/developer-trouble/#comment-102 Couldn’t agree more with you. And I’ve certainly never expected “free” work. My equity offers have always been very substantial to account for the inevitable time and effort that a dev has to put in.

But there’s a problem with the economy of web development and wicked new ideas. Good quality development is expensive, but groovy, thrusting young idea-generators like myself don’t always have huge amounts of cash!

;)

I definitely think there’s scope for finding a way of getting those two groups to work together.

Not that I’d ever be able to afford you, Stef….

]]> By: Stefan Goodchild http://neilcocker.com/2008/03/28/developer-trouble/#comment-23 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:48:00 +0000 http://neilcocker.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/developer-trouble/#comment-23 Forgot to mention, a web developer myself, it’s one of *the* most common offers I get.

“Design me a website that would ordinarily cost six figures to make for free and you can have 10% of my company that’s worthless.”

Even if the company made decent it would probably never turn out to be worth the 2 million that they are valuing it at.

It’s simply a bad investment (time vs return) for a developer.

Laters Bruv!

]]> By: Stefan Goodchild http://neilcocker.com/2008/03/28/developer-trouble/#comment-101 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:48:00 +0000 http://neilcocker.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/developer-trouble/#comment-101 Forgot to mention, a web developer myself, it’s one of *the* most common offers I get.

“Design me a website that would ordinarily cost six figures to make for free and you can have 10% of my company that’s worthless.”

Even if the company made decent it would probably never turn out to be worth the 2 million that they are valuing it at.

It’s simply a bad investment (time vs return) for a developer.

Laters Bruv!

]]> By: Stefan Goodchild http://neilcocker.com/2008/03/28/developer-trouble/#comment-22 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:41:00 +0000 http://neilcocker.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/developer-trouble/#comment-22 Don’t forget that good freelance developers are already investing time in a business. Themselves. And that’s a very lucrative business already for most.

The problem is the mindset mate.. Devs by design are supposed to be and need to be cautious and work to set plans and structures.. If they took risks with your codebase you’d not be very happy with the result, trust me. :-)

]]> By: Stefan Goodchild http://neilcocker.com/2008/03/28/developer-trouble/#comment-100 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:41:00 +0000 http://neilcocker.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/developer-trouble/#comment-100 Don’t forget that good freelance developers are already investing time in a business. Themselves. And that’s a very lucrative business already for most.

The problem is the mindset mate.. Devs by design are supposed to be and need to be cautious and work to set plans and structures.. If they took risks with your codebase you’d not be very happy with the result, trust me. :-)

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