Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by cheald 5530 days ago
I would be willing to throw myself headlong into learning RoR or JS or whatever, except that I don't want to be designer or a developer.

Everyone in a startup has to do things they don't want to do, or aren't good at, in order to get off the ground. Knuckle down and learn enough to prototype your idea far enough to land some tech talent. At a very bare minimum, you're going to need a solid demo to land a competent tech co-founder. If you want to found a startup, get used to wearing a lot of ill-fitting hats. :P

It's something of an exhausted topic here on HN, but "idea guys" are a dime a dozen, and ideas have no intrinsic worth. You need to bring something tangible to the table, be it design or code work, or the money and connections necessary to make the design and code happen under someone else's steam. I'm not trying to be harsh, so please forgive me if it comes across that way, but "I have an idea and no money or practical skills to bring it to fruition" is so common that it's almost cliche; the way out of that is to make it happen, even if it involves developing skills that you don't necessarily want to turn into a career.

1 comments

This is more or less the answer I've been giving myself. Thanks for confirming it!