Title: Premise 1: Investors&#x2F;Incubators over-estimate their ability to pick good ideas&#x2F;startups.<p>Premise 2: Software by a lone developer is not pragmatically different from software by a big A-team. It’s the market fit and marketing &#x2F; sales that makes or breaks the project.<p>Premise 3: Most freelancers will not build and&#x2F;or follow-through with their ideas, because they are not sure it will sell.<p>Premise 4: HackerNews has a decent number of people who know how the world works, and how a little glue would make it better.<p>Based on these premises I present The Proposition 2.0 (following version 1.0 [1]):<p>I’ll pay you $500 for your “real-life problem that needs a software fix” idea and market validation &#x2F; research. I will build the MVP and give you another $1500 to bring us our first paying customer(s). We split the resulting product 80-20 as co-founders.<p>[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5037694 [2] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.simonnouwens.com&#x2F;hn
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