Are you married to that idea, or want to start a tech company? It’s very possible to gain customers and provide a solution without building custom software as your starting point.

If the problem is painful enough, you could provide a solution that customers will pay for today. You can then use this early revenue to fund the building software. Which will hopefully allow for an increase in revenue and potential scale.

Depending on your idea, many tactics will allow you to do this.

Here are a few examples:
- Use humans to provide the service manually and progressively automate the work
- Use no-code to solve a smaller part of the problem
- Presell the solution to someone who was thinking about building something similar in-house

There are many more tactics out there, and you can get creative and develop some of your own.

This will also open up more options for building your tech. You will have funding to hire an agency. Or have the kind of traction that will attract a better technical co-founder.

Another option would be to apply to an accelerator.