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Hard to give you any advice since you’re non technical. It’s best to reach out to your network and ask them if they know someone who might help you out. I see other people have suggested questions to ask but what matters is how you evaluate them. And since you’re not technical I’m not sure you can evaluate them in the correct way. In my dev/design shop we get clients mostly from referrals from other people we’ve worked with. If you have more specific questions feel free to shoot me a DM, I’d be happy to answer them.

Yeah they can be

Yeah, you can have anything you want made accessible by a non tech person. I run a dev/design agency and we do it all the time.

re: Or is it worth attempting to build something around as a tool?

Great question. What’s the goal with this platform you’re going to build? Expand and grow exponentially?

Hey there, to validate your idea you have to define what your ideal customer looks like. Who are they? What do they do? What problems do they encounter? Then you can start talking to them. In the form of a survey or a call. Also I’d suggest that you read “The Mom Test”

No but you can try calculating the risk. Try researching and applying your experience as much as possible so that you can mitigate common pitfalls and make sure you execute in the best way possible. That’s the other angle of not loosing your money. Also reflect on how you feel, it’s all about how confident you are that you’ll be able to pull it off.

Speaking from experience here, if you haven’t already worked with tech people and have established good relationships with some it’ll be hard to find a good cofounder that you fit with. And one that’s actually engaged in the process. Have you worked with any tech people previously? Try reaching out to them as that’s going to be your best bet. It’s all about the chemistry with cofounders.

Another option is to hire someone to build an MVP for you so at least you can show your product to people, get a better idea or make your chances of brining in a technical cofounder higher. And with an MVP the chances of you getting funding increases significantly. I run a dev/design shop that’s helping founders with this problem specifically since I’ve noticed that people who haven’t been in tech struggle with this problem. If you have questions I’d be happy to answer them. Also I’m running a short survey that’s going to take you 1 minute to fill out (closed questions only), it’d mean a lot to me if you filled it out so that I learn what your pains are better, here’s the link to it - https://tally.so/r/mZ2JRa

Validate the product first, depending on wether it’s a physical product, the landing page might be the way to validate the demand though. What’s your product?

A good start but I believe that your point about design is a fallacy. Keep in mind that you didn’t get any customers so you can’t judge based on your experience. Design also is a very broad term. It can include a FAQ section or anything about making your customer understand what you’re selling and solving for them. I don’t see anything like that on your page. So please don’t think design doesn’t matter. It does if you apply it properly. In terms of A/B testing I agree that it comes at a later point and doesn’t really matter in the beginning as long as you see some demand.

Thanks for the advice! Landing page tests aren’t going to work for me, I’m selling services that are specific and have a fluctuating price depending on the projects requirements.

From the PoV of someone who runs an offshore dev shop- people tend to overlook communication. I’d say 90% of the technical challenges/results can be sorted out by this. Also another thing is that the person who you’re talking to from the dev shop understands your vision and can communicate it well so the devs under their management bring it to life. These are the qualities that make it or break it in my opinion. Dev talent can be found anywhere otherwise.

Can’t give you any specific advice besides networking with people. Also, make sure you have big balls because it’s very tough at the start

Hey there, depending on your needs you might be better off with a custom solution. Can you elaborate more on what features you might need? For the most part there’s always some features that are missing from a pre-made app leading you to not being able to track/manage things correctly.

Correct, a CRM might be helpful in this case. The system can be built to your needs and then you would be able to update all the data. At least at my dev shop we do it like that, so if the person doesn’t want to work with us at some point in the future they can do so freely. In any case support can be offered when you need it usually. Feel free to DM me if you want to discuss further.

I’ve been saying this over and over for the longest time now. Before you launch you should make sure your landing page is top notch. Because the better you make it the more it converts. I’ve been educating my clients for a while now and there seems to be a lot of progress. If you have the budget go for it. People are usually afraid to spend money on their landing page because they don’t realise it’s an investment. If you want to I can help you with that even.

I have some ideas on how I might help you out with the website/software part of this business. I run a design and development agency and we build custom solutions for people like you there.

Got it, that’s the best thing about hiring dev shops I think. From a CEO perspective you can just have communication with one person and he’ll make sure that you get what you want.

Looks like you need to hire a high-level assistant. It would help you a lot by taking small but time-consuming tasks off your shoulders. For the custom solution you’re getting built, did you hire individual contractors or a full agency? It might get overwhelming to handle communication with individual contractors.

How do you keep coming up with content ideas consistently?