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by offtop5 1904 days ago
Why can't I use it. This seems like it could be a really fun tool, for anything serious I have to forward it to a real lawyer anyway but I could imagine you get more traction if you publish a basic version of it.

Can you afford to hire a lawyer to assist you with this, I think your big problem here is that you desperately need a co-founder with a legal background to even pitch this thing.
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tastefulwords 1904 days ago
You can't use it yet because what I deem an MVP for this is far-away from what I have right now. At the moment, the tech is probably 80% of the way to what would be in a v1, but the design/experience is maybe 20% of the way there.

Getting this to a proper v1 requires a design exercise that's at least 2/3 months long, during which time I need a full-time designer and a full-time lawyer.

I don't think that I absolutely need a lawyer as a co-founder, but I do think that having one would definitely be great. (Which is why I tried that.)

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offtop5 1904 days ago
If I were you'd I'd push to try and ship anything, it looks brilliant and I'm sure if some people try it you'll have the push to keep going.
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tastefulwords 1904 days ago
I think you're probably right.

But, sadly, I have neither the energy nor the financial liberty to do so, after the nearly one year of full-time work that it took to get here. (The demo isn't just a mockup; the tech that powers it is production-ready, which is why it took so long; which might've been a mistake, but that's another story.)

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