Title: Last year I won a hackathon contest with a large group including only one other dev. After the contest we decided to keep working on the project. For a couple of months I played a central role developing the fundamental product concept, business strategy, legal approach, and the coding itself. Periodically I raised concerns that we still hadn&#x27;t formalised equity share. My concerns were dismissed.<p>I discovered two of the non-devs had applied to accelerators without asking the team, despite me making it clear that in my opinion we didn&#x27;t need outside investment. I handed over my work-in-progress and emailed the team saying I was moving to the &quot;advisor tier&quot; which the two had previously described as coming with &quot;a small share of equity&quot;, and received positive replies from them. Since then I&#x27;ve been contacted by the other dev for assistance (he&#x27;d never heard of node.js - let alone the rest of the tech).<p>Less than a month later they asked to meet to give me a &quot;token of [their] appreciation&quot;. They then ambushed me with an IP transfer agreement and told me that in their opinion I deserved no equity. I didn&#x27;t sign it.<p>I contacted them explaining that if they wanted to buy me out, and retrospectively change our relationship, I would expect to be paid for the consultancy I&#x27;d provided, and quoted a fair fee. After 7 weeks I&#x27;ve chased them a few times and received a single request to meet in person (I declined as I want written records of all exchanges). The core two and the other dev have since enrolled in an accelerator - and therefore presumably lied about owning the full IP when they gave them equity.<p>What are my options?
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