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That's exactly what Assembly does (https://assemblymade.com/ideas). We enable everyone to openly collaborate on real products and then share the upside. Every month there is revenue Assembly transparently pays the bills and splits the remaining proceeds with everyone that built the app.

disclosure: one of the founders of Assembly

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I've gone through the site, and am curious about your business model. Essentially, you are creating co-op apps: how much of a cut of that app goes to the assembly team? Is it 50%, with you taking control of selling the app/making the business decisions? Or is the stake constantly changing (i.e. I contributed early, but my share gets diluted as more people work on more tasks to continue making revenue?), and you at some point want to sell the app?

Great questions - this FAQ page should hopefully answer all of them: https://assemblymade.com/help/profits

well this just popped across my desk... nice. pretty similar to our Geeklist hackathon/projects/ideas app rolling out of our hackathon app at (http://geekli.st/hackathon) only it is all free. we don't take any cut. we provide all the infrastructure. Apps that get built that gain traction our Geeklist Labs will help get funded - if they want. No contracts, no fees for the app. 100% open source collaboration for ideas and projects. Spurring innovation globally at Geeklist. disclosure: I founded Geeklist. - r - oh and hack4good (http://hack4good.geekli.st)

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