Why describing your project is a good idea and why people won't steal it

Ok folks, on my last post I said that :


WTF? and what if someone stole my idea?

What? seriously? you're really thinking you displayed your idea in a 4x3 giant poster in the most viewed building in the world?
Ok, yes, your idea is probably great, but if it were amazingly ... well ... amazing, it would already be done by someone else.

Way too often, when you talk to your friends about your great idea, you just came up with "I have this new idea, but well, I can't talk to much about it now, it's secret!"
(lets try again :)

It's secret!

No! it's not!

Please, tell me one reason why you would have to keep it secret.
As far as I can think about it, I come up with only one :

What if someone stole this idea?

Why on earth your friends would do that?

Talking to your project with your friends in details can only be helpful.

  • If your friend is an IT guy(/woman), he/she will have a more technical oriented questions and could easily come across specific points that you might have ignored and that could potentially destroy your idea.

  • If your friend is not in the IT industry, he/she will mostly ask you about the general aspect and actions of your project. These types of questions will help you have a more detailed view and even bring you new ideas to implement !

But still, you believe some IT friends can stole your idea.

They won't, for three reasons:

  • They are your FRIENDS (come on! trust them!)
  • They also have one (or more) project in mind : they don't have time to copy yours.
  • They don't care about your project, really ! They will remember "my friend have an idea", that's it. There is nothing concrete, so nothing to remember.
If all else fails, they'll eventually propose you their help or even ask you to work together.

Of course, I don't say to describe your new project to all your 10.000+ twitters followers.
They are followers, not all friends. And some of them can be greedy.

Choose which people you can trust, and give them all the details, you will only gain benefits.

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I hope you enjoyed this post and I would love to hear your thought on the comments bellow ! :)