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Ask HN: How can non-developers build products/MVPs?

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Ask HN: How can non-developers build products/MVPs?

#1
Hi all,

I have a number of ideas for which I would like to build a MVP (a basic website, web-app) and put it out to the market and get feedback. For some people these are side-projects. However, being a non-developer makes the process rather lengthy and tedious. I have tried and built web-apps with no-code tools and also learnt web development on Flask (thanks to CS50!), however the learning curve was rather time consuming. You end up consuming a lot of time just to learn the language/tool itself before you can actually build the product, tinker with features, get customer feedback etc.

Are there forums out there where I could find and team up with developers to build such product MVPs faster & validate my ideas? Basically like a tech co-founder (but not in a startup). Or is there some other way I am missing?

Suggestions welcome Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: How can non-developers build products/MVPs?

#4

What is the goal of the product/MVP? Is it a proof of concept that is used to raise money from VCs to then develop the real product or should it be scalable & fully usable longer term?

I want it to be more like a proof of concept. Building a scalable and fully usable long term will require a lot of investment which I don't think would be the right thing to do until I have some validation from users. Does that help?