You are an engineer . . . start building a basic MVP . . . don't worry about automating behind the scenes stuff . . . do all that stuff manually in the beginnin

You are an engineer . . . start building a basic MVP . . . don't worry about automating behind the scenes stuff . . . do all that stuff manually in the beginning if it's faster to get up and running. Think launch fast, like in 7 days or 30 days. Get the idea out there fast where people can use it and validate it. You are going to need investments to roll out an idea on this scale. But work up an initial version to prove the concept. The farther you can bootstrap it the more equity you'll retain.