Most likely, no one will partner with you. It's not a personal thing, it's just that the idea is about 1% of the success of a project and the execution is the rest.
This is coming from someone who is a software developer by trade and was instrumental in building a SaaS company with a $10M valuation and is now doing it a second time. But also someone who lacked control in the first company and only walked away with six-figures in equity.
If you want to maintain control you will have to learn to program or you will have to pay someone a competitive wage.
To learn, please visit:
To pay someone:
What is your idea worth to you? In the next week decide to:
This is coming from someone who is a software developer by trade and was instrumental in building a SaaS company with a $10M valuation and is now doing it a second time. But also someone who lacked control in the first company and only walked away with six-figures in equity.
If you want to maintain control you will have to learn to program or you will have to pay someone a competitive wage.
To learn, please visit:
- Code Academy
- Udemy
- Coursera
To pay someone:
- To start, reach out to Indian development companies on LinkedIn. I outsource for some prototypes that have a low ROI. The quality of work is fine if you have knowledge of the languages being used and can manage the pull requests. If not, I recommend paying a friend a few bucks to review the code. I have a few that I have worked with that I would strongly recommend, DM me if interested and I will hook you up commission free and bullshit free.
- There are some good firms in Eastern Europe and South America also. They are safer but more costly.
- I don't recommend outsourcing in the long term. It only makes sense when you're in what I call the "prove out" phase.
What is your idea worth to you? In the next week decide to:
- Learn to code. You're a smart guy and it shouldn't take you more than 3-6 months to learn to hack your site together.
- Pay to have a prototype developed. By outsourcing, you can have a bare bones prototype of your idea put together for $10,000. This is about 1/10th what it will take to build your entire platform, so make sure they focus on MVP (minimum viable product) features only. I can't emphasize this enough.
- Give away your idea or lock it in the vault. If you aren't willing to learn or to pay at least $10,000, then you aren't the right person for this idea.
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