[RiderOfGiraffes]

In my opinion, for what it's worth, you absolutely must either become technical, or must work closely with someone you trust. Trying to break down your project into pieces without knowing how these things work is a great way to get a partially implemented, completely broken, useless pile of non-functional code.

At the very least you need to get tutored on how to break these things down, and tutored by someone with experience.

This question does come up a lot on HN - a search and browse may repay you.

PS: It's generally preferred if you preface the title of a submission like this with "Ask HN:" so we know you're asking a question, rather than pointing to an article that discusses the issue.