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Ask HN: Am I Technical enough to be the Technical Co-founder?
I am looking for on advice on how technical does a technical co-founder have to be.
Is my background enough?
My experience:
- MEng Engineering Maths (learnt MATLAB, Java, C, Prolog and Haskell as well as Linux)
- Software engineer >2years (Java, SQL, Linux)
- Quantitative analyst ~2.5 years (VBA and Excel)
- Investment professional ~4 years (Excel)
In my spare time I've been learning React.js, node/javascript and GraphQL. I've been building an MVP with Graph.cool as the backend. I'm also okay in python.
So am I Technical enough to be a Technical Co-founder? I have a potential non-technical co-founder lined up to start the business with.
- Blackstone4 9y agoAny constructive advice would be more than welcome
- byoung2 9y agoKinda depends on what you're building...for a todo list app, definitely, for an autonomous robot that performs brain surgery, maybe not.
- Blackstone4 9y agoFair point - it would be a data intensive investor portal which also serves up PDFs. My goal further down the line is to have advanced analytics but the initial services would be fairly rudimentary and I feel like I could build it..... it just might take longer
- googletazer 9y agoWhat this guy said + you seem to have a generalist skill set, which is good. You can't know everything, but if you know where to look and how to teach yourself, thats already half the battle.
- sharemywin 9y agoAre you technical enough to build the MVP then I don't see the problem?
- Blackstone4 9y agoYeah I think I could build an okay MVP. It wont be shiny but it'll work