OMG thanks so so much! This is a super rich list! Thanks so much again!

Agreed totally on getting a contract done. Lawyer maybe necessary, but for now, we're explicity writing down scenarios and possibilities, who owns what, what happens if I get fired etc.

Agreed on finding a common thread amongst the people we help. The goal is to convert the learnings we have into a product, then sell this product to everyone else.

Ye - it seems like it won't work out for us oh well.

Oh well! It feels like the partnership / relationship is very one sided.

Ye I did share some of the code - it's not fully functioning yet. I have now unshared the stuff temporarily until we lock in a contract.

PS to everyone - thanks to everyone here! Someone asked me for help today, and following a plethora of suggestions, I SUCCESSFULLY asked them for payment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel so accomplished!! I started asking THEM questions about their project, what they wanted. I then asked them about their budget, their proposed use case of whatever software they're building, and crept in talks on compenstation etc - ie I mentioned how I had my own startup, and I can't help too much etc.

They're offering a reasonable 15% equity in their venture + wages!!!! As suggested by people here, I'm gonna get this all in writing, do nothing on the job until its written, and add clauses on late payments, etc!

I couldn't respond to everyone here - but I wanna say - THANK YOU! Big THANKS!! I think I grew the most today in like 2 years :))))))

I guess I just wanted to thank the people who replied :)) But I do agree I have issues - as you said I've replied yes yes yes I'll try oh well :(

Ye I do know I'm extremely agreeable. I did watch Peterson's video on training to be more disagreeable.

Yikes I guess thats one approach lolL!!

Oh mm never actually considered this!

PS thanks so much to everyone here! I'm the type to respond to everyone's replies so apologies if I didn't - again thanks so much for all the wonderful help!