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The question I ask myself is why would you want a non-technical founder to learn to code if they will never write production code? The encoded message in most o
by inuhj 15y ago
The question I ask myself is why would you want a non-technical founder to learn to code if they will never write production code? The encoded message in most of the replies fall in to a few categories: 1) to understand the technical feasibility of their vision and 2) as a way of showing initiative.
#2 is what code jockeys want to see and the natural way for a coder to measure initiative is in lines of code. What non-technical founders don't seem to realize is that you can begin building the product without writing code:
- Make a landing page.
- Do A/B testing on marketing and company names.
- Talk with customers. (this is huge)
- Weigh the pros and cons of different business models.
- Tied in very closely with the above but plan features.
- Do everything BUT the code.
In other words, execute.
- j_camarena 15y agoTrue story. I made my landing page .. Learned html and css from zero for that... I got enough clients to be profitable that way and also got selected for startup chile. Im now trying to learn python. Much much better than waiting for miracles
- itmag 15y agoWow, that's inspiring! I compare with myself: I am a quite good coder and I have lots of ideas, yet I feel stuck for some reason. I'm gonna try to borrow from your can-do ethos :)
- j_camarena 15y agoThanks! i will need some coders for my startup on the near future, feel free to send me a tweet (@j_camarena) if you want to talk or just keep in contact :).
- localhost3000 15y agowhy can't they write production code? if it works, it works. deal with scaling problems when you actually need to scale. in lieu of finding a 'technical co-founder' i taught myself to code and built our entire product. I'm now the 'technical co-founder.' JFDI