I'm looking for a cofounder, so I end up explaining my project to a lot of people. People wonder how I will accomplish it, but it only becomes obvious after I explain it (or show the demo)... I hear "Ohhhh... or that's interesting" and that freaks me out. I feel like I just gave it away.<p>I know I sound like every other paranoid freak, but I'm learning as I'm building so it's very slow. And I'm sure someone else could build it while I'm still looking things up.<p>Wracking your brain over nonsense like this comes with the territory, but I'll take any advice I can get.
The way I've heard successful start up types describe this is issue is like so.<p>Keeping your idea a secret is only going to hurt you and the project because it doesn't have the opportunity to grow with the criticisms of potential users and people who think differently than yourself. So in general you should talk to people about your idea.<p>That is unless, your 'secret sauce' is something on the order of Tungsten being the secret to light bulb filaments. That you would want to keep a secret.<p>I tend to agree with this assessment.
If keeping it secret is that big of deal it's probably going to fail anyway. If something is so easy to copy that you can't tell anyone then it's not worth pursuing. IMO.