Ditto.
We might be friends / competitors!
I’ve had the precise same thing, and if I say so myself, adroitly avoided the issue by (1) pointing out that very few people can do this at anywhere near my price, (2) you can buy a template, sure, and (3) providing the template but not the intelligence behind it - i.e. it’s built and simple, they think they got what they attempted to filch, but they’re getting something they can’t really change or work with beyond the basic purpose.
As for work for free - nope, nope, nope - I’d rather starve. I can educate my kids myself. I can grow stuff.
I’ve seen into the darkest of capitalistic hearts, the most rotten, foul and stinking pits, and know fundamentally that working for free doesn’t help anyone except the exploiter.
Get something in return. Anything worthwhile. But never work for free.
