Helping Developers, For Free

Robert Scoble on how he helped the Flipboard developers in the early stages of the app:

Why do I do it for free? Because I love this stuff and want the best possible apps to use myself. Flipboard without Twitter list support would have been totally worthless for me. It isn’t obvious that Twitter list support is important. After all, how many people use Twitter lists. But for Flipboard it was a must have.

I’m passionate about seeing things early and work hard at adding value back to entrepreneurs for that honor.

See, it’s not about the “cool factor” of having access to stuff other people don’t know about. Maybe it’s that, too. I don’t want to call this a “mission” but, really – for some it’s just about helping people build better, innovative products.