Coming out of the closet

Let me make sure i understand the question. How do you get around stealing from your current company and lying to your customers?

You are so screwed. Prepare to bend over. I hope you calculated medical costs and lawyer fees.

When it comes out and company X finds out, you will be sued. When I say sued, they will become the owners of all your work or they may be willing to settle for a hefty ownership. Why did you not go to X in the first place to ask to license their platform?

Next time, quit your job and wait a year. But the fact that you see nothing wrong with this behavior sickens me. It's the worst ethics I've seen in a long time... And I've seen some stuff.

This is something best handled by a lawyer. They have seen it all. One way to do it is to go to meetups and just have a chat with the lawyers there, they are there to get clients. If your company has potential they will normally be able to give you some free advice and you could ask them of your situation and see what they say.

You're starting out on the wrong foot, my friend...do you really want to start your entrepreneurial career out as a liar and a thief? If so, I wish you luck! You're gonna' need it. Your best move would be to cancel that order, give them their money back and start fresh. The alternative is to look over your shoulder, until this comes back and bites you in the @ss...it's not worth it.

I posted the comment here. Legally, I am doing all the work in my wife's name and other fictitious person.

So you lied about who you are in order to get inside of a company - at which point you stole access to their platform so that you could build a product onto said platform.

As other posters have noted, there is no place on earth you can hide once your product comes out.

You've not only likely broken <em>all</em> of the agreements signed when entered employment, you've also committed literally criminal offenses in doing so.

You're then going to come out with a product which highlights the inside access which was contractually prohibited and performed under false pretenses.

Really?

No, I did not lie. I have been working with the company for 3 years, and I built the product in the last 3 months. Needless to say, there was no agreement that I had signed except in the last 15 days where I had to sign a "code of conduct". So, there is nothing on paper.

This group is obnoxious. I am getting hate email, not proper advice or referral to lawyers. I need your support, not your opinions.

So you willingly fucked X and yet you still maintain "My exit strategy is to be acquired by X?"

And this is why I won't offer you advice.