I've been working on a program/website that has what i believe to be amazing potential. I'm actually close to launching, just working on a few little bugs at the moment....with that said I will move onto the question relevant to the title of the thread. I have an interview with a rather large, well known software firm in a week, and i was curious if i should bring this project to their attention so that it may sway their choice a little, but at the same time I don't want them to see what i've done and somehow work me out of the picture. My question is then: What would be keeping this company from taking my idea(which i have up and going, just not available to the general public at the moment) and leaving me high and dry??? *edit* Intellectual property may not have been the best term for the title as the project is near completion...
Before you show your confidential ideas to anyone you should have them execute a non-disclosue agreement that protects your work from being used by them, or having them show it to others.
This also depends on what language is the site is coded in. Typically Javascript, html, css are all easily viewed/ripped. Languages like PHP and Perl are processed by the server before generating the page, so the only way to see source of those is with ftp or ssh & your password.