Yeah, only users validate ideas.

Think of it this way:

Once I have a house built, can I handle all the upkeep if I’m not handy?

Same type of answer.

Let her have 100% of the idea and you take 100% of the startup. It’s a win win.

As others have said, the idea isn’t worth anything. There is so much that needs to happen for the business to actually be something.

As others have said, you’re trying to break into a saturated market. You’re underestimating the hardest part of the business.

I recently launched a nearshore (LatAm) dev shop focused on startups. I’m just expanding my network, writing articles, and trying to provide value in every interaction so people see us as being a cut above the rest. I get emails and LinkedIn messages every day selling me on developers and I delete immediately. Just garbage effort from people trying to sell.

I’d say on the one hand, very crowded space. On the other hand, with more effort and insight and playing the long game, you can stand out over time because 95% of the “competition” doesn’t even try.

Just keep in mind the extraordinary effort required to work on the business, not work in the business doing web dev.

Referrals and networking one by one. Don’t even bother with anything else until you’ve exhausted this first and have a few clients.

Trying to find a cofounder who can be a good fit with you like this is going to be really, really hard.

https://arisx.com/read/cofounders-are-a-dumb-requirement

It’s not just landing pages.

https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average

Just too much friction. Talk with you about the product, watch an onboarding video, learn how to use it? You’re asking them to dedicate a lot of attention.

Depends on what you’re trying to do. If you want to be an indie hacker (that’s what the kids call em these days) and try building out a SaaS using a combo of low-code tools and basic coding, people have done that and a few have been successful. But depends on the complexity of what you want to create.

Marketing, networking, storytelling, and sales are huge skills and if you can partner with a technical cofounder someone or find a good outsourcing option, you could focus just on those.

I wouldn’t bother with a MBA.

A couple weeks ago I asked a question about a dev shop for startups. Maybe some of the comments will be relevant for you:

https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/17jwgey/comment/k75hgjo/?context=3

Agree on being contrarian.

Also being a risk-taker, the ability to make big decisions, willing to fail, and constantly learning.

FYI this will only get much worse before/if it gets better.

Focusing too much on what you’re passionate about can actually narrow your thinking so much that you miss problems that you could solve. Passion can get confused with caring. You have to care about your users and therefore care about their problems.

“There are great startup ideas lying around unexploited right under our noses. One reason we don’t see them is a phenomenon I call schlep blindness. Schlep was originally a Yiddish word but has passed into general use in the US. It means a tedious, unpleasant task.”

http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html

Well-said!

http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

Maybe you should start here: https://www.latitud.com/

But you should focus on publishing a landing page, building out a MVP, attracting users, and engaging with them to determine if you’re on the right track before spending too much energy and money on business entity type and location.

Some people have said you need a technical cofounder, others said an experienced engineer, others a product manager. They’re all right. Not to be rude, but it sounds like you don’t know what you’re doing. Just the way you are phrasing your questions. Hiring a freelancer from one of those sites is going to be a waste of money. The no-node option is viable. Or you need real technical guidance.

I’m always interested in feedback. I’ll take advantage of your lazy Sunday :)

https://holadev.io

We just launched. We’re 2 cofounders coming from having worked for years in another dev shop that we helped run but didn’t own.

We can’t post testimonials or case studies from our work since it was under the other dev shop. That’s a challenge because we have a lot of experience. Thinking that we’ll just add our story of how and why we started on the about page.

The website and blog posts were created really without SEO in mind. More just with the target audience. But we’re thinking we need to edit copy for keywords so we can get more traffic. We are really solid operators but neither of us has a background in marketing.

If it’s no longer just a grind but has become a burden, it’s probably time to move on.