Hi guys,

I was just wondering if you were someone who had little to no grounding in tech as a founder of a tech (mobile app) company. Would you direct your efforts into CS/learning how to program or would you develop your business acumen / softer skills, potentially considering an MBA in marketing? I have no intention of writing the program but hope to find a tech confounder who would or at least be able to liaise with a dev team.

TIA

  • anonperson2021@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    It’s incredibly uphill to learn enough programming to build something yourself and launch it at a commercial level. Just don’t. If you wanna pick up tech skills, you’re looking at a long journey of learning basics, doing small projects, working with a team, preferably working with experts and learning from them before you’re anywhere near competent to build something substantial. Even after a decade of being in tech, most devs don’t reach the level where they can do it without a team around them.

    It’s not at all like “Learn to sell” or “Learn to do taxes”.

    I’d say just focus on the non tech aspects and find someone to do write software.

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      10 months ago

      It’s not at all like “Learn to sell” or “Learn to do taxes”. More like “Learn to perform a surgery”.

      Idk. I’m not sure I’d put us devs at the same level as surgeons, as least not for major surgeries. Of course, they don’t do operations solo either in most cases.