Seems to be lot of morals of this story. I hope young developers have read this and taken it to heart...every hackathon I have ever been to has had at least one non-technical person pitching their business idea, and often they're looking for suckers to work for free. And, the real WTF is that they often find them (then again, it is usually inexperienced developers who can't deliver much in a weekend, so it probably just serves as a learning experience for all parties involved).