[matchmike1313]

That is a hard one, I would suggest trying to find a programmer that you trust that would even be willing to meet every week or few weeks to spend a good chunk of time with you on strategy and technical stuff. Maybe that would be open to some smaller equity arrangement with the agreement of a co-founder level if the product / service takes off. It can be very difficult to navigate the technical waters / get ripped off if you don't have a basis for how complex or difficult various tasks are.