DonJuanDaMiles

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I remember when it was simple you got a burger fries or coke or a property and tried to get all 3. Grabbed an egg McMuffin this morning and got a game piece on hash brown and on muffin. You have to download a mcds app, then "opt in" to the game then scan the pieces in now to even know what they are. #aintnobodygottimeforthat After all that I "won" food...a cookie. A COOKIE. Second game piece made me play some dumb plinko game in the app and I "won" a trial peacock tv subscription. HOORAY Wtf does plinko have to do with monopoly?? I guess I missed that in the original game. Booooooo. Just give me a property or say free fries on the piece and call it a day.

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Have a friend come up with this bright idea. Problem solved

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First off, did your PoC ingest actual proprietary company data, live internal asset telemetry, confidential GIS layers, proprietary CSV schemas with real operational secrets or did you build it on synthetic/public data? I'd go with an enterprise annual site license with a managed SLA, or an exclusive internal lease where you operate as an internal software vendor/consultant. Never sell a flat buyout unless it's life-changing money; emergency ops tools grow in value exponentially once disaster hits.

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I dont know but dont let them frick you. I worked with a guy that invented a mud pump that 100s of companies now use. Company got the royalties and he got a $1000 bonus. Spent the rest of his life working as a mechanic and died broke.

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I did something very similar. Designed everything on my Christmas vacation. Never used any company time or resources, etc. A buddy from work eventually helped develop it but not on company time. I wanted to go through the proper channels and did everything I was supposed to. The company I work for and the documents I signed basically say they own any patentable IP. Programs are generally not patentable. You can copyright the code but that’s about it. They still said “umm, no… this belongs to us”. I used their own rule book to show it didn’t. They still didn’t want to give it up. It took a year and nine months of me knowing their rules better than they did to get “their rights” officially signed over. Figure out if you signed anything first. The other guy that helped develop it never signed anything. They still said “but it’s implied”. Which is BS. They will probably fight you for it because they can. DO NOT use it at work because this will bolster that claim. As far as the product, use a subscription model. Roll out improvements, etc as part of the package. Our stuff is really very simple but powerful software. We’ve done pretty good but I think the next year or two is going to be great.

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