Sam has a great blog post about this: http://blog.samaltman.com/non-technical-founder-learn-to-hac... The title says it all - learn to hack.
Not sure what to do with my startup idea
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#14If you've been doing digital marketing for 8 years and are pretty damn good at it, I'm surprised that you're having trouble paying for a coder. Digital marketing is typically closer to sales and revenues. The effect your work has has (and thus your compensation) can be orders of magnitude higher than programmers.
Re: Not sure what to do with my startup idea
#15If you've been doing digital marketing for 8 years and are pretty damn good at it, I'm surprised that you're having trouble paying for a coder. Digital marketing is typically closer to sales and revenues. The effect your work has has (and thus your compensation) can be orders of magnitude higher than programmers.
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#18hiring a coder is going to be very costly once programming and design are included You should start learning about coding now, not with the intention of building the app yourself, but with the intention of becoming more knowledgeable about what the developer's job entails. If you find a developer and say "build me an app" you might get estimates like 12 months and $50k. If you know that you just need a news feed, you…
Good idea, I have some basic programming language but not enough to code something like this completely on my own. I'll start reading up on Phonegap and seeing how I can narrow down exactly what I want to get it a cheaper price as well. That Medium story is awesome, thanks for that!
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#20Maybe you can start with a web app that is much cheaper?