[josephlord]

I agree with the logic but let me propose some additional benefits/reasons to do it yourself.

Freedom from responsibilities to others (employees, investors) could allow creativity.

Singular vision for the product without compromise.

No need to describe requirements to others.

Get a basic understanding of all areas while it is fairly simple before scale up (accounting etc.).

Also the pure logical case only really works when you have enough cash to invest yourself in building the business or you would have to put the effort into finding and managing investors.

The low quality version might actually be a good investment in the shift it makes in the external perception of value is sufficient.

[its_so_on]

thanks for these thoughts.