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Having someone build the prototype can help you learn how to build/enhance/operate your thingamawhop. And if you feel that strongly then don't use this non exis
by padseeker 14y ago
Having someone build the prototype can help you learn how to build/enhance/operate your thingamawhop. And if you feel that strongly then don't use this non existent business idea.
And you are not the typical non-technical founder. If you have any interest in learning by all means do it! This is not for you.
AND EVEN SO! This could be the thing that gets you or someone else on the right track to decide what to do. You might be tempted to build the thing from scratch when you should have bought a plugin for wordpress/joomla and then learned PHP and the framework where the plugin is built. It will help you make the most pragmatic decision, which might not be build it from scratch.
- Mz 14y agoI don't really want to learn. I wish someone could help me zap it into existence. But that hasn't happened so far. And it is looking unlikely. But my personal situation is neither here nor there. You asked for invalidation. That is my thought: That in spite of the number of times that the value of the "idea" gets pissed on here, there is some internal process that goes on in the founders. Y-combinator is more interested in funding the tight people, not the right initial conceptualization. Building the thing is often part of the growth process for the founders, a process I struggle to articulate adequately. Perhaps you would be killing that process, throwing the baby out with the bath water, so to speak.