Title: Hi, I want to ask HN for advice - a somewhat popular startup recently took a page straight out of Dilbert.
Is this common?
Should I do something about that?<p>I went on an interview at flipps.com and wrote some &quot;sample&quot; code to fix their horrible, memory-hungry iOS app. I only improved a single view of the app(because I suspected something like this might happen).<p>The company didn&#x27;t wish to move forward and hire me to fix the rest of the app. I didn&#x27;t think much of it and thought that was the end of that.<p>But to my surprise they immediately <i>shipped my sample code to production</i>!
Now, I am aware of the legal status of code written as a &quot;sample&quot; and they probably don&#x27;t owe me money for it.<p>I&#x27;m not looking for vengeance, and I&#x27;m not really all that angry. There&#x27;s more code where that came from and I won&#x27;t starve without their business.
But this an unethical way to go about software development.<p>And it is especially dishonest toward their investors(who think they&#x27;ve made an investment in a technologically-savvy company, not just software thieves).<p>If you wish to drop them a line, the site is flipps.com, and their main investor is http:&#x2F;&#x2F;launchhub.com.
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