I only remember the one, but yeah that was an absolute gem

Heard that before, this happens every decade or so

The ds version was 3D

I guess my hill is to fight you on this.

They current day isnt over until you wake up, or the sun comes up

I meant if you give away the idea by open sourcing it, by the time you’re ready with your project the idea exists in dozens of forms already and you now look like a knock off.

Then it’s too late for you to have much success

First mover advantage, is this what you mean by first mover advantage?

This is course assumes you care about popularity/success of your product, if you only care about it existing and not performing on it then yes opening it up out of the gate makes a entirely too much sense… Even for my cynical ass

Thank you! I hope OP sees this

At this time, you are the only person to give an to answer OPs question. Seems everyone else can’t read the question

In my own experience, i would do #3, then take that and do# 2 after reviewing different #1s

If the code you pay for makes a game that does something close to what you wanted, you then have that to work with and go on.

(I don’t know if this is how things work in the real world so please forgive if it’s not quite right)

Use it like an alpha or pre alpha build, and as a reference for how the coding can be used to do different things but specifically for your project.

It may be a horror show to try and fix someone else’s code, but for someone who doesn’t know already, it would be very useful as a learning environment that was created uniquely for your project, and then you start asking/looking for very specific help

You could then post snippets and ask about anything that you struggling with, or even use AI to explain it(that may be terrible or it may not be, you can let me know lol)

(I’m not a programmer, but i took a class in highschool, 25 years ago and did a couple things with logowriter, and turbopascal)

I would be concerned about giving away their idea and having someone steal it

But I’m cynical that way

I know this is only one very small detail, but as a software engineer i hope you are okay with addressing it in exclusion of everything else you said :p

OP said they want to release on f-droid and probably not on google play, so they primarily wish to release on mobile

Hope that helps

The top level comment by user listless is the one that said coding is 20%

OP is just trying to explain that they aren’t trying to hand this idea to someone and then do nothing.

You could be more kind and encouraging

This is No Stupid Questions

And OP is just asking for help and getting a lot of unnecessary heat here

OP is NOT in software industry, dont get offended if they say some things based on what other people have told them

We should be helping and encouraging, not tearing people down here

Peace be with you

This is OPs response to that same post.

This response is sort of the issue I keep running into. I’ve already gotten this talk, learned from it, and moved forward. I now have nearly two notebooks detailing every mechanic, mock ups of ui design, animation ideas, sprites, complex dice roll mechanics to engage with tables for content generation, and even a roadmap for the first 15 major updates to assess timeline based on the time it takes to convert to a digital format. I’m not even looking to offload the work, database entries are like 90% of this.

I’m here asking because I don’t know how to do the next part where I find the other 20% of making this happen.

That emphasis is mine, clearly it doesn’t answer the question just because it is well written and is a useful response, to a question not answered.

The question was where do i not how do i

Reread everything man, im not the asshole here.

It ia a very well written answer. But its absolutely NOT what was being asked.

OP literally said in the text body “I have everything worked out…im a pen and paper guy and cant code”

From saying i dont want to release on Google, want to release on F-Droid

The question is “Where can i find someone?” And the comment you think is so great does NOT answer that. Almost the last point of advice given in it is

4.Find a partner: A developer who’s excited by your clear plan—and who sees a fair path to reward for their effort.

Do you understand that this what OP is already asking? Like its literally what was being asked for, not a diatribe of why being asked to help with a project is often a waste of the programmers time?

Seriously go re read the entire post, and the entire comment that i replied to, you should see how douchy it is. It comes across as belittling and condescending. And it makes absolutely zero mention of where to go looking for someone help with this project.

If you reread them both and still think it is exactly what was being asked for, i will listen and genuinely try to understand how you think it answers the question.

And please, keep in mind that the question was posted in No Stupid Questions, so it should not matter how likely OP is to not have someone agree to help and accuses OP, obliquely, of having a "half-baked” idea, which i assert is a really shitty thing to do in this specific community.

And i dont think the post is bad advice, but that it is specifically NOT an appropriate response for this post, as it was written.

Like, answer the question first, and then give all that advice, but its pretty condescending to end it in a bullet point fashion with telling them to do what they LITERALLY by posting in the first place

I really like how they ended that comment with

Find a partner: A developer who’s excited by your clear plan—and who sees a fair path to reward for their effort.

As if that isnt what you are literally doing by posting here

Not what OP asked

This is No Stupid Questions and you ranted about how annoying and useless OPs ask was because you assumed they didnt have any of the information you wanted to know before YOU would consider helping them.

Its fine to educate them on what problems they may encounter, but you didnt actually answer “where do i go to find someone”

Dick move bro, real dick move.

Is OP likely to use this No Stupid Questions community in the future after your completely off topic response? I cant answer im not OP but it will definately deter some people.

Hope you feel real good about your “answer”

I really want to point out what you said

4. Find a partner: A developer who’s excited by your clear plan—and who sees a fair path to reward for their effort.

That is literally the advice they are asking for

Have a nice life

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Please please please please please be the thought child of a member if the flying spaghetti monster religion

They absolutely should be. Them being so doesn’t stop the problems from happening.

It literally gives people in the US the constitutional right to due process, and that bedrock law is being massively ignored.

There needs to be actual protections for when the law is not being followed

You should not make that decision only because of this conversation, what if they are massively misinformed?

Dio has rocked for a long long time.

But now its time for him to pass the torch

He has songs of wildebeasts and angels

He has rocked on the wings of a demon

Put some Dio on loud speakers and place them next to the shared wall