[JimWillTri]

I was in your position financially and career-wise - just hated what I was doing. Gave a little thought to coding but decided I had plenty of money to just hire people to complete the project. Went to every dev firm in the US who I thought had the skills. Most quoted around $25k - which would be great but I dint believe they could do it.

Instead went to a firm in SV that wanted $54k. They had worked on a large prior project so I thought they could get it done. They couldn't even get the first milestone complete after giving then two times the allotted time. Fired them.

Finally found my own people and launched 5 months ago and going great. I would suggest finding some good people on HN.

[chamboo]

I'm very happy to hear that you're doing it. For a very long period, I started to give up hope (and I had never even attempted anything). I would very much like to find some people here. Can you say what you are working on building?

[bones6]

Depending on what your project is, there are plenty of coders to be found overseas. If you want to be a programmer, be a programmer and put in the time to learn what you need from the beginning. If you want to build your idea now, hire a team and manage them best you can. With your money, I personally would have already hired a few teams to work on different projects. None of my ideas I would outsource are exactly super-ambitious or groundbreaking but are things I would like to have as sources of passive income that would give me a bit more freedom. I've got to say Trello makes it so easy to handle projects like this, from the few small projects I have managed with outsourcers.

[JimWillTri]

It's very difficult to find good programmers. I would suggest finding someone on HN that has a very good rep and using him to sort through and find quality ones. One of the biggest challenges is that, even when you find quality programmer(s), most will attempt to outsource to crappy devs. I found out that the sv dev firm I hired, outsourced to $4.50 hour ukraine devs on odesk.

[chamboo]

Same thing happened to me when I tried to outsource a slot machine app to a company on Odesk in India. Was ridiculously dumb to try and work with those guys.

[cjbenedikt]

that's exactly what I meant by "there are excellent devs out there, find your mission/passion and spend some of your cash on it"