I am a tech founder (even though not officially the CTO as I do more CEO stuff now). I highly recommend against Freelancers or people who will have no future s

I am a tech founder (even though not officially the CTO as I do more CEO stuff now). I highly recommend against Freelancers or people who will have no future skin in the game. Instead, you need to try and get some type of Prototype built yourself (may be with some help) and then look for a CTO/Co-founder. Ok, so what can you do to find a CTO: - Do Wireframes or mockups of your idea (use something like Whimsical or any other mockup tool. Personally I am a big fan of Whimsical and use it daily to mock ideas) - Get it designed using something like Figma. May be use a Designer Freelancer for that. That's ok - Put up a landing page using a website builder. Talk about the idea there. Create a signup list if you can. - Get busy on social media like twitter/linkedin Do all of these and you may be able to attract a good CTO. The point is to do enough things first to attract the tech co-founder. Again, do not pay freelancers to build an application unless you really have no leads even after doing all the steps I mentioned above. You will thank me later.