I finally got our app done and we're in the App Store ready for a public launch in a few weeks with version 1.1. It took us quite a while because we were not te

I finally got our app done and we're in the App Store ready for a public launch in a few weeks with version 1.1. It took us quite a while because we were not technical founders. I think we got lucky because an open source option became available with just enough documentation for me to tweak it with the skills I learned by reading books at the library and from links on Hacker News (we're publishing a travel magazine in the Apple App Store and we used Baker and Laker, two great open source frameworks. Check them out at http://bakerframework.com/ http://bakerframework.com/ and http://www.lakercompendium.com/ http://www.lakercompendium.com/) I think without these we would have been stuck and would have never gotten off the ground. From a personal point of view, as an ideas guy who never really thinks about execution, it was very difficult. I enjoy spending my time thinking up ideas that will change the world and getting frustrated when I realize I don't have the skills to implement them. Working on our magazine was a change for me. It wasn't a grand idea, its not going to change the world. People might love the stories, but its not the "next big thing." And I have to say, I'm ok with that. If fact, more than ok, its very satisfying to actually get something done, to have it in my hands and be able to say its mine, rather than just one of my ideas floating in space. It still took a lot of work, especially on the motivational side, but I handled that by intentionally breaking it down to the smallest task I could. That was also new for me, and I think, a key factor. Every day I got something done, even if it was small, and then one day 8 months later, it was done. If I had had a technical co-founder and more money would it have been easier? Yeah. But I didn't. By far the resources I used the most were Hacker News (for motivation and the stuff I learned from articles), my local library (for books on coding and soon, marketing) and the documentation of the code we worked on (and a bit of help from the guys who built it, once again, check them out they're awesome).