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14023068 No.14023068 [Reply] [Original]

Ok /biz/ I wrote a piece of software that I want to sell to my current employers. How do I go about it without getting jewed? Note: I've already told my employers about it, and they want to see it in action.

>> No.14023092

If you work for them, isn't it already their software?

>> No.14023098

>>14023068
Look how they act when they buy software: prices and legal agreements.

>> No.14023106

>>14023092
That is normally how it works.

>> No.14023114
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14023114

tell them that you make sure you kill them if they steal your shit. bring gun to work to prove that youre serious.

>> No.14023126

>>14023068
You better not have coded it or demo'd it to them on their company property

My buddy did this and they literally took what he did and repackaged it and made 20 million dollars off of it

It was some call center management software back in the early 2000s

>> No.14023144

>>14023092
Im not a software developer by profession and I made it on my own time.

>>14023092
I'm not involved in that part of the business so I have no clue how it works with them

>> No.14023151

>>14023068
contract. call a lwyer

>> No.14023170

>>14023068
If i were you, i would tell them it has some fatal flaw, for now... Begin it as a start up. When they ask tell them that you had to get very serious with the work to over come the issues.

This is where it gets tricky. How bad are these people? How bad would they screw you over? It is very likely they would reproduce what you did if you demo it and such. In addition, it could threaten your position in the company if you dont deliver for "free".

Not going to lie, this really all comes down to how bad they are.

>> No.14023187

Also, sale the software to a competitor.

The company you work for won't be able to process through the cognitive dissonance of buying something from their employee but would gladly pay 10x from a consultant....i know it's stupid, but it's just how it fucking works

>> No.14023190

>>14023144

thats not how it works. anything you make is likely owned by the company, regardless of what it is, unless you can PROVE you made it on your own time. proving you worked outside of company time is the hardest part of legal cases like the one youll be facing if you try to sell your software.

>> No.14023218

>>14023170
I've been there for less than a year now. They seem like good people, but I've seen them play hardball with prospective clients before. The problem is the software automates a crucial part of the work we do, so to sell it to anyone else would be a "betrayal" to the company and i'd risk my job

>> No.14023230

>>14023190
What if all the files are on his own hardware and not the company equipment?
Asking for a friend

>> No.14023327

>>14023190
everything i've made is on my own laptop, back up to my own cloud storage, which I dont carry to work. it should be easy to prove I didnt do it on company time.