J.J.McLure

Owner at *redacted*

Where can I find developers who will work for equity?

I apologize this has nothing to do with sales.

I have a side project and I'm looking for a website/mobile app developer who will work for equity. Does anyone here know of a site that connects developers with entrepreneurs?

edit: the comments are great, most of the suggestions are for hiring a developer, not partnering with one.

I found a few sites now that are for founders wanting to find a partner with particular skill sets;

Founders-nation.com

CoFoundersLab.com

stealth.li

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BTQ

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Account Manager

Yeah there's actually a bunch. However, you will be at a disadvantage if you don't know code.
NEVER work with an agency, they will fuck you. Upwork is cheap and decent but hire fast and fire fast because there's devs that masquerade as independent but are really working for agencies.
Expensive option is Lemon dot io, this is the boujee option but they're good. I'm not 100% if they'll work for equity.
Cheers

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

This is probably the best answer you get. I wonder about Fiverr, if that's still a thing..

J.J.McLure

Politicker

Owner at *redacted*

Thanks! I'll check them out

J.J.McLure

Politicker

Owner at *redacted*

Just heard back from Lemon, they won't have their devs do it for equity. $65-$95/hr
I think I'm in the wrong business...

BTQ

Politicker

Account Manager

Ah bummer. Upwork, Fivver and maybe “WeWorkRemotely” will be better

Revenue_Rambo

Politicker

Director, Revenue Enablement

Make sure you’ve got a NDA in place so they don’t build and take your IP.

HVACexpert

Politicker

sales engineer

Oh wow yeah I didn’t even think about this

pirate

Big Shot

🦜☠️ Account Executive

Can you find people on LinkedIn?

J.J.McLure

Politicker

Owner at *redacted*

Possibly, but I don't want to pitch the idea to a bunch of developers that could just say no and then do it on their own.

pirate

Big Shot

🦜☠️ Account Executive

Makes sense

oldcloser

Arsonist

💀

What do you want built?

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

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J.J.McLure

Politicker

Owner at *redacted*

Im really struggling with how to describe it without giving away too much or outing myself if anyone on here knows me… it’s a different take on subscription platforms 🤷🏻‍♂️

oldcloser

Arsonist

💀

Afraid I don't know anyone who specializes in different takes. Tough place to get into it.

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

Sales Rep

I would lean toward Upwork

wolfofmiami

Opinionated

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prob upwork would be a good start, if you work in tech maybe even trying reaching out to people and ask if they will have a conversation. I think it will be hard to find someone just for equity unless you have a personal relationship with them or if they really believe in your idea.
You could always get the premium version of chat gpt and have it code almost a prototype of what it will do and how it will look and then some with a power point and extensive market research and a great story you can take it to angel investors and they'll give you money for equity to have it developed. The only issue with that is unless if youre are an absolute expert in the field no ones gonna give you money bc everyone has an app idea or a idea for a saas tool, why you. And it has to be more convincing than well I came up with it.

J.J.McLure

Politicker

Owner at *redacted*

I wouldn't give me money if I was an angel investor 🤣
Id rather pay someone to do the work, but I don't have enough saving for that, the only way I can think of to get this done is to sell the idea enough to a developer that wants to be a part owner and then I'll go sell the hell out of it.

wolfofmiami

Opinionated

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then maybe entrepreneurship isn't for you lol build up a prototype or rough draft of what is supposed to be and work, meet with developers see if they'll build a prototype for equity take it to angel investors sell them get money from them buy back the equity from the original developer and pay them a fee to build it hire more people to finish building it create a GTM strategy. If you can find someone who you dont have a relationship to do for equity make sure you have a lawyer write up the contract, and id be very impressed if you found someone from upwork to do it for just equity to build it start to finish

J.J.McLure

Politicker

Owner at *redacted*

I doubt I would find someone on upwork either, 100% on having a contract written up. Thanks for the other advice!

Beans

Big Shot

Enterprise Account Executive

AngelList

Diablo

Politicker

Sr. AE

Angelist and may be upwork to find someone easily

GDO

Politicker

BDM

Get a partner who knows this stuff. Otherwise they will fuck you over

LambyCorn

Arsonist

A mfkn E

upwork or some shii?

Coffeesforclosers

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Director Sales and Market Development

I think Blaires dev is another one you could look at not mentioned yet

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Where can I find developers who will work for equity?

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