I think you need to find a new technical co-founder. Or, raise more investment. Neither of these are easy of course, but startups are tough. You probably hav

I think you need to find a new technical co-founder. Or, raise more investment. Neither of these are easy of course, but startups are tough. You probably have to really love your idea in order to stick with it. Reading your post made me think about the most recent PG essay ("be good"): http://paulgraham.com/good.html http://paulgraham.com/good.html Specifically, this quote: The added confidence that comes from trying to help people can also help you with investors. One of the founders of Chatterous told me recently that he and his cofounder had decided that this service was something the world needed, so they were going to keep working on it no matter what, even if they had to move back to Canada and live in their parents' basements. Once they realized this, they stopped caring so much what investors thought about them. They still met with them, but they weren't going to die if they didn't get their money. And you know what? The investors got a lot more interested. They could sense that the Chatterouses were going to do this startup with or without them.