Yes, I think you can. If you think you can produce business value with domain specific knowledge there is a good chance you can. That said your code will not

Yes, I think you can. If you think you can produce business value with domain specific knowledge there is a good chance you can. That said your code will not be great. There is so much to learn about production quality code that you're not going to know. But I've seen very successful systems operate on terrible code. You do have to understand you will incur a lot of technical debt but businesses often need to take on debt to get off the ground so it might make sense. You may want to think about how you're going to scale if your business takes off. That's when you'll want to think about paying down that debt if you want to grow and be able to move fast. At the growth point you're going to be able to afford experienced developers to clean things up. Be warned they're not going to be happy working on poorly architected code and that might be a difficult experience. If you've worked hard and someone criticizes that work it might hurt. But if you're expecting it, it doesn't need to.