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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
How do you respond to 'idea' people who want you to program their app for free?

Looking for some good ways to help these people achieve their goal, but stay out of their life. 

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I usually recommend that-

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\>They play with Python for about 2 hours. Recommending the official tutorial or automate the boring stuff tutorial. If they think its cool and doable, they can build a prototype in 6 months and something amazing in 2 years.

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\>That if they are idea people, that their ideas should have amassed them enough money to pay programmers. If not, refer to the idea about Python.

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Curious what you do with these types. I am pro-entrepreneur so I dont want to tell people to 'shove it'. Any suggestions?
gpt
Just say no, you don't have the time. 

Giving them advice on programming themselves could be a good idea if you can do it politely but it might not be worth the risk of sounding flippant since 99% of them aren't going to do it anyway.