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| Ask HN: What contingency do you have in place for your source/apps when you die? | ||
| recommended by 2 users | 2019 | 15 points by sphericalgames | end of life | original thread | | ||
This question is mainly aimed at self-employed, solo developers with side projects, e.t.c. where the chances of losing digital work is very high because no one else is around to pick up the pieces or make sense of what you have started / created. Do you have any digital contingency in place for any of the work that you've started/done after you have died? For example, if you don't renew your apple developers account, the apps you have created will soon disappear from the app store and those income will be lost for your beneficiary. So, what have you done to prevent this? | ||
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| gus_massa May 23, 2022 | on: Ask HN: Solo founders, what’s your got-hit-by-a-bus… | context |
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I've enjoyed patio11's thoughts on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21908638 and https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1211406333653798913 |
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There was a very similar question posted two years ago, and it has a great reply by patio11:
> There are, roughly, three very different rationales to have business succession planning in place, and at the scale of a solo operator they have very different best options available:
> 1) I want to avoid negatively impacting paying clients in the event of a bus factor issue.
> 2) I want to avoid negatively impacting "the community" in the event of a bus factor issue.
> 3) I want to ensure my heirs receive the residual value of the income stream.
It's too long to repeat it here, but the the the rest of the comment by patio11 with his answers to 1, 2 and 3 are in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21908638