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When I run into people like this, I always say the follwing: "I also have a great idea, I'd like to start an electric car factory in india. I just need an engineer who plans the factory, designs the electric car blueprints, manages the building of the factory, organizes the machines, and implements the structure for mass producing cars. Shall we do a 50/50? You build the factory, I do the rest."
This isn't limited to hackathons, and to be fair the title is fairly click-baity. I remember seeing a page here on hn listing 1001 great ideas. So if you are out of ideas, then just pick one from there and adapt it to a problem you have identified. There are an endless number of ideas you can come up with that combine some of your domain knowledge with a problem you can identify in your local community. I was just re…
The problems the author describes aren't limited to just hackathons. Developer-entrepreneurs are constantly bombarded with requests for free labor from idea people. Don't code for free!
(original author here) I talked about that one a few years ago too: http://caseysoftware.com/blog/startup-risks-for-developers
Would be even better if your site had some TLS love! ;-)
Thanks for sharing!
"I'll do the thinking around here" - I've never seen those situations end well.