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No. There are lots of startups with non technical founders who can bring in (or outsource) the technical development. There is a larger risk in the quality of

by exline 16y ago

No. There are lots of startups with non technical founders who can bring in (or outsource) the technical development. There is a larger risk in the quality of the code when you do this. If there is no tech founder, then most of the time you will have a harder time judging the developers you will be using (hiring/outsourcing to.) It also means that you will have to pay for the development vs a co-founder putting in sweat equity to get the product done. Based on your brief description, it sounds like there will not be a lot of heavy lifting to get the application up and running. From personal experience, getting the MVP version of the app done is really the easy part. It doesn't always feel like it, but in the overall picture it is easier to do development than it is to sell the app once finished. The sales/marketing after the fact is where the real work starts. Many hackers have trouble moving from development to marketing.

richtofen 16y ago
@exline: Appreciate your response. Am replying a little late, but was deep in the jungles of India [seriously] for the past few days. Quality of Code:I have found the best guys possible, within my means. I will trust them. Nothing further is possible. Development vs Sales/Marketing: Thanks for flagging this up. Being an architect, project manager and designer, I hear you on the create vs evangelize challenge. We are on to it. Lots of user-feedback and testing based on UI's and interaction demo's [knocking stuff together as flash presentations and pptx files (it is low, I know)], some cryptic splash pages, a few fire-hose twitter accounts that are trying to create some buzz [but only bot-followers till date, etc. And friends. Lots of priceless friends and well-wishers. Within all this, a tech co-founder would have been ideal, but the heroes currently writing the code have their own startup dreams to chase, kids to send to school, and mortgages to pay. Nothing is perfect, I guess.

by exline 16y ago

richtofen 16y ago

@exline: Appreciate your response. Am replying a little late, but was deep in the jungles of India [seriously] for the past few days. Quality of Code:I have found the best guys possible, within my means. I will trust them. Nothing further is possible. Development vs Sales/Marketing: Thanks for flagging this up. Being an architect, project manager and designer, I hear you on the create vs evangelize challenge. We are on to it. Lots of user-feedback and testing based on UI's and interaction demo's [knocking stuff together as flash presentations and pptx files (it is low, I know)], some cryptic splash pages, a few fire-hose twitter accounts that are trying to create some buzz [but only bot-followers till date, etc. And friends. Lots of priceless friends and well-wishers. Within all this, a tech co-founder would have been ideal, but the heroes currently writing the code have their own startup dreams to chase, kids to send to school, and mortgages to pay. Nothing is perfect, I guess.