About once a year, someone with $2500 burning a hole in their pocket comes to me with the grand idea to create a site that is, ultimately, identical to Fackebook or Youtube. It's not identical in their minds "because reasons", and they don't understand why I turn down the money "without even trying".
The general population has no earthly idea what it takes to keep sites like FB or YT running, let alone create them. They just see them as any old website on the internet, but with "extra video or chat codes".
They think, because of the story of Facebook (which they caught 20 minutes of on TV) they can start a website for a few dollars and become millionaires in a few months. They ignore entirely, all of the very unique circumstances in the early days of the web that made it even remotely possible for FB to do what it did.
Still, they come knocking, trying to get me to "do their site" for a fraction of the development cost, or for nothing at all since I would "be in on the ground floor" or "getting a percentage" of all the millions they'd generate with their "Youtube, but for DIY 4 cylinder engine mechanics" or their "Facebook, but for single Presbyterian lumberjack black smiths".
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