If someone has an idea for a mobile app and wants to develop it without any funds or developmental skills how would you recommend going about it while protecting your idea?
I tend to agree with most of the other commenters - don't fall into the "I need a technical person because I can't do it myself" mantra. Build something, anything, to get off the ground. Learn as much as you can, by yourself. This will also help you manage and monitor technical work later on and woo technical co-founders potentially (who rarely like to work with non-techie types).<p>Like others have said, ideas are a dime a dozen. Execution is what matters. Most apps nowadays can be (rudimentarily) recreated over a weekend - it's likely that almost nothing you are doing is so revolutionary that is should be considered a state secret. If you are THAT worried, it could be a sign of insecurity in your ability to execute on the idea, not the threat of losing the idea itself to someone else. Keep that in mind.<p>Think of it this way, the Twitter technology itself was not exactly revolutionary and there were literally thousands of copycats after it launched, but their execution is what set them apart and helped them gain the traction they needed.
No one works for free<p>If you don't have the skills get them... its the fastest course, and it shows your serious.<p>Bad and working is worth a lot more than an idea on paper.
You don't.<p>Ideas are a dime a dozen. If you think you're going to find someone to build an application/product for you for free, you might reconsider your idea because I'd say you already aren't thinking clearly.<p>As zer00eyz said, if you don't have the skills, get them.
It's quite simple, really. I used to be like yourself, but then I read the famous How to Win Friends and Influence People. Dale Carnegie wrote it in the 1930s, which explains the weird title, but don't shy away from it because of that. It's actually very enlightening!