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What to do when coding an MVP is too expensive and no dev wants to be cofounder?
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Re: What to do when coding an MVP is too expensive and no dev wants to be cofounder?
#2Pay a dev?
Re: What to do when coding an MVP is too expensive and no dev wants to be cofounder?
#3Learn to do it yourself.
Re: What to do when coding an MVP is too expensive and no dev wants to be cofounder?
#4Redefine your MVP.
If it's too expensive it's not minimal enough. And if it can't be built (because it's too expensive) it's not viable at all.
Re: What to do when coding an MVP is too expensive and no dev wants to be cofounder?
#5Can you tell us what your product is? Even in the most general terms, it will help figure out how far away from MVP you are.
Re: What to do when coding an MVP is too expensive and no dev wants to be cofounder?
#6Besides what the other posters said, what do you have to offer as a cofounder who can't do technical work? What's your skill set?
Re: What to do when coding an MVP is too expensive and no dev wants to be cofounder?
#7Talk to more devs, or refine your idea based on feedback.
If you can't attract anyone, probably either your idea sucks, you personally don't add any value, or the scope of your idea is starting too large.
Ask them for feedback.
Re: What to do when coding an MVP is too expensive and no dev wants to be cofounder?
#8Raise money from investors.
Code the MVP yourself.
Re: What to do when coding an MVP is too expensive and no dev wants to be cofounder?
#9Two questions to think about:
1) if you can't convince someone to work with you to build this how will you convince customers to buy it?
2) if you believe in the idea enough, what's keeping you from learning to code?
Re: What to do when coding an MVP is too expensive and no dev wants to be cofounder?
#10Please define "expensive". If it's a consumer app, hacking a wordpress template should only cost about ~$500.00 or hacking the sample projects from Parse.com can cost about ~$500.00-$1,000.
If it's a enterprise play, then you should be able to close $50k-$2mil for a paid project engagement from an enterprise client just by having a good powerpoint deck and an awesome sales pitch.
If neither options works, then you probably need to refine the idea more.