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Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/world/how-ai-is-helping-one-person-companies-scale-to-1-millionand-beyond-5cfe84d5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49128496

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An influencer in the fitness space who has genuine distribution and proven experience scaling one app, offered me (~6 years software engineering exp. w/ one side project scaled to 15k users) the following technical cofounder offer for a fitness app requiring a custom iOS vision module:

No payment to start. MVP base rate is 10k, 5k on delivery of phase A, 2.5k on phase B and 2.5k on phase C.

After the MVP is delivered, if we both want to move forward, then the 10k would turn into 2% equity vesting immediately, and 23% would vest over the next 3 years. When continuing as cofounders, he would then offer a 100k/year salary. If we do not continue as cofounders, I walk away with 10k and he gets the IP.

To me this sounds like he doesn't respect my time, I estimated the MVP build at 300h. It comes off as "I want you to go through a 4 month job interview in order to become a technical cofounder with me". The only thing that stands out is that I could also just build the MVP and do the bare minimum to maintain it after delivery while collecting the salary. Has anyone ever accepted a deal like this and found it worthwhile?

My worry is that I'm hung out to dry if he drops the project after the MVP delivery. Any recommendations on counter offers?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49128484

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Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/man-invested-45m-in-a-nicolas-cage-movie-it-got-stolen-off-netflixs-desk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49128474

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Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/technology/personaltech/apple-siri-ai-prompts.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49128467

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Article URL: https://flueframework.com/blog/flue-2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127458

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Article URL: https://abc7.com/post/campus-guardian-angel-drones-american-schools-install-pepper-spraying-mithril-defense-stop-active-school-shooters/19595678/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127437

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Article URL: https://leetcopilot.dev/blog/how-to-spot-overlapping-subproblems-before-writing-dp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127433

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Article URL: https://blog.railway.com/p/how-to-make-viral-commercial

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127401

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Article URL: https://time.com/article/2026/07/15/world-models-are-ai-s-next-frontier/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127378

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Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/babf4c89-1a6f-447f-a17e-7e3e48f359b8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127377

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Article URL: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/reaping-the-whirlwind-inside-the-potomac-river-midair-collision-0475416f2b0f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127367

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Article URL: https://gothamist.com/news/deliberate-indifference-ny-state-put-imprisoned-mans-life-at-risk-judge-rules

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127366

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Article URL: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-old-man-and-the-strait

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Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/world/americas/plane-douglas-dc3-wwii-colombia.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127362

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I originally built fantastic11.com in 2008. The browser-based lineup editor alone took me several months to build. Here’s an old demo video from that time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27_Bx4Z8nbE / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU_DBT8mOXU Over the years, I added a few smaller features, but as a father of three, I rarely had much time left for this side project. This week, I rebuilt the entire site in just a few days using Codex and a $20 subscription. What surprised me wasn’t only the speed. The new version ended up being much more complete than the original. The workflow still feels strange: I describe what I want, spend some time with my children or take care of things around the house, then come back to find much of the implementation ready to review. It’s a very different way of building software, and I’m still getting used to it. You can try the new version here: https://fantastic11.com

I’d be happy to hear your feedback—on the site itself or on similar experiences rebuilding old projects with coding agents.

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Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4i-0lTryEs

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Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_720LesVg4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127353

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Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMUPNCR35h0

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Article URL: https://www.microchip.com/en-us/tools-resources/develop/mplab-xc-compilers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127348

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Article URL: https://bytepawn.com/paxoslease-python.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127314

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