Perry, how do you know that the two of the founders actually do lots of programming in Auctomatic? They could've helped the team in other areas such as: 1) St

Perry, how do you know that the two of the founders actually do lots of programming in Auctomatic? They could've helped the team in other areas such as: 1) Strategy 2) Marketing (newsletter, beta invitation, etc) 3) UI design (but not UI coding) 4) Sys/Net/DB-admin 5) Legal issue and let the Collison brothers do the actual programming without having to worry of these stuffs. The Collisons are one of the kind. Prodigy is the right word to describe them both. If you look at their About page: http://auctomatic.com/about http://auctomatic.com/about , there are 2 more people beside the 4. At least one of the two is of technical type. Summer is 4 months long, I'm sure you can learn something. But I don't think you'll be anywhere near the people in this website in terms of technical ability. The more you ask technical questions from News YC, the more you "dig" yourself deeper in the technical side of the world and the less time you will focus on your startup. But don't be discourage, anyone can start anything at this day and age. You can: 1) Learn PHP/MySQL/JavaScript/HTML/CSS and ignore advices 2) Learn Back-end (PHP/MySQL/AJAX) and outsource front-end 3) Outsource everything to India/China/Russia/East Europe There are the News YCombinator kind of startups. There are the Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo! kind of startups. There are also the kind of iContact, "Ben Casanova", PlentyOfFish kind of startups. I wish you the best on whatever the path you chose.