How to prevent stealing your idea/product when externalizing development to 3rd party? What is your experience?
I am going to contract guys from another country to develop my MVP, let's say on fiverr, but I am afraid they can steal my idea, coz this is my MVP. How would I prevent it? What would you suggest?
MJ DeMarco Said - "Ideas are cheap, execution is what matters"
Or something similar along those lines.
People will copy you. There is no avoiding this.
Facebook copied Instagram, Instagram copied Snapchat, YouTube copied everyone, etc.
The idea belongs to the person who executes it the best.
Execute your idea better than everyone else and it will remain yours.
If you are contracting out the development of your MVP then you don’t have to worry about them “stealing” your ideas. They are getting paid to build your product - not to waste time trying to build an entire business from the unvalidated idea of one customer. That aside, ideas are useless. If the only thing that makes your MVP unique is that it’s your idea than that is a hard sell.