Hello, I'm looking at putting together a site that is niche, however i will be hiring someone to create the site and do want it to leak want the idea to be stolen while in construction. Is there a way to protect my idea??? Thanks!!!
It depends who is designing your site... but if you post your project on rentacoder.com you can specify a full Non Disclosure Agreement with the developer that is legally binding. bear in mind they are very anal though and would not let me post a design project becuase they said it would be in direct competition with their site (rentacoder).... it was not in the same nich at all as their site and since that 3 hours signup process, only to get refused to post my project... I never went back!!
There is an absolute successful and secure method most / all truly successful site owners practice in 2 easy steps: Learn all the basics first yourself Then do it all yourself Without that you may get stuck (near bars) like a guy who said last night " ... at the moment im a stupid model travelling the world andnot having time at all. " see what can happen if you have a site project without knowing your site http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=547049 If a project is NOT worth to be learned and DONE by the "BOSS" - then is never is worth to be done at all!
it is true that it is best to do it yourself. The second part of this I didnt understand But anyway, if you get a reliable trusted programmer certified by rentacoder you will be fine. You just have to pay for it...never trust any coder that has less than 200 good projects in their feedback
Thanks for the input! I would like to do it myself, however the coding is well beyond my level, it would take a whole lot of learning and a long time to construct at my level of expertise. Looking to invest quite a bit into just having someone create the code/script it self. Thats one thing that is holding me back, is the financial setback, if it does cost what i calculate it will.
the second part simply means: if a project is really valuable, then it should be worth all efforts to do it on your own if however you want someone else to do your work then it may be because it is NOT worth your own efforts to accomplish or realize your own dreams or projects. as to MrMoolah.com if the coding is too complicated for you - but the project is worthy to be done, then the project also is worthy to be learned by you no matter the effirts to learn ... else you may become a victim of a project / site that exceeds your own limits and you may have to do what the guy in below thread had to do these days - shut down the entire site until he is ready to secure his site after the recent hacker intrusion and security breach. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=547049 the best and most successful option in life always is to grow proportional to your own skills, knowledge, experience and growing expertise - hence to stay well within your own limits. however I must admit that the vast majortiy of all bloggers or site owners presently i the www hav eby very far exceeded their own limits - hence we have a HUGE and globally widespread and growing number of most active hackers and cyber criminals finding fertile ground in the millions of totally unsecured web sites ... at the expense of all www society and at the risk that sooner or later authorities may limit out publishers freedom for the justified reason that we failed to maintain a secure and clean www environment all on our own. myself - I have ONE single site since 10+ years and I make so much traffic and adsense-$ that i never would know how and when to do a second site. however the ONE site I did and do with all my heart and soul. a simple site free of gadgets and potentially dangerous stuff - but rock solid and steadily growing each year if the coding is too much for you and the learning is too much as well may be the securing and runing also will be too much and get totally out of control to THEN hire a professional to fix all the security stuff may cost you far more $ than to learn what is neded by you to be able to build AND securely run/maintain all later on - growing slowly but strongly may be more healthy. and if you need more revenue NOW - then optimizing what you already have may be faster and easier than to build another new project ??!?
excellent post, thank you!!!! Thats a good point, i have debated that, i just need a little bit of patience, just hard with the schedule i now have to live by. Again thank you and you are definitely right, i will gradually work on it, maybe hiring out some of small stuff that wont jeopardize the whole project.
instead of hiring small staff hire your BEST friends to HELP YOU- have cellphone numbers and ICQ# of those who now and then give you a hand or a precise shell command line without having to search for hours in G or forums/howtos. the amazing point of that experience is that as soon as you have a potential source of help, the inspiration will flow and all goes much more pleasantly and efficiently. BTW what happens to your truly cute looking site MrMoolah.com ?? looks great but has NO traffic ... these existing things may need more loving care from you to actually become popular. whatever ... whatever you do - do what you can do on your own - from the very bottom of your heart with all your heart and soul and you will find all the strength to learn, to grow and to finally ENJOY tha one single site of a life time you may ultimately care for all on your own. it's fun and an eternal fun challenge to have grown WITH your site and life projects inside and outside. a web site is like a wife you can make ONE happy and you can make all others around ONE happy - but you will always struggle and be stressed with more than one wife / web site !!
I don't agree that any site you own should be made yourself, but I do think it's a good idea to contract out work to friends, family and people close to you rather than over the net if it's an important/sensitive project.
Pshaw... My home is valuable to me, does that mean I should have built it myself? People who don't stick to what they know best and outsource aren't going to go very far. You'll never see me code a site, my expertise is in content, marketing and building up traffic. If I coded a site it would be a total waste of my time.