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Honestly, to me, it sounds maddeningly frustrating. If you've ever been the guy telling someone else to type something while waiting over their shoulder, it's like nails in my soul if they make a typo. I usually have to fight very hard to not say something like "JUST LET ME TYPE IT PLEASE!"

This is that same thing, but on a much grander scale.

There may be somebody interested, and I certainly hope that you can get somebody qualified, but I guess the main question I have is why you wouldn't just bring on a technical founder and let them develop it? You'd still have the opportunity to learn by osmosis, and they could give you small chunks of coding tasks to offload some of the stuff that's less important, and you'd probably be done in a quarter of the time, if not less.



I am sure it would be faster to take on a technical founder -- but it seems as though there is a shortage of them available these days.

I am trying to find a workable solution to a lot of peoples problems - that they don't have full-time/interest to be a technical founder and others don't/cant contribute enough hustle to make technical founders take the jump.

Mentor someone for a few hours though, for an advisory % (between .5 and 2%) and it might work out.

If you meet with someone who you feel merits more time/interest/stake -- then go for it.

This might be a way for hackers and hustlers to meet up and speed-date.

The hacker gets to see the idea's vision and can determine if its something he wants to be a part of.




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