[byoung2]

I think what you've proven is that you can outsource app development to an offshore team and get a solid product back without breaking the bank. Building a startup is a much bigger undertaking than just creating an app. An app may be central to what your startup does, but I think incubators like YC are looking for companies with the potential to generate more revenue than just $0.99 per download.

For example, your grocery store app may be a gateway to offer daily deals or market to your app users in some other way, or you may crunch the data and sell it to supermarkets.

These are the kinds of ideas that get bounced around when you have more than one founder, and the tech team is in-house (I know because at the startup where I work, we have these conversations all day long). We go from "hey have you heard of this technology?" in the morning to "I've implemented a proof of concept" by lunch to "it's running in production" by day's end. That's something that you can't easily outsource, and something that I think a technical cofounder brings to the table.