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Getting a technical co-founder vs. hiring developers (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Newfounder1@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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I am wondering what others think... some podcast says "to want a cofounder so that you get a free software engineer is the wrong motivation". Ideally I would want funds to hire a senior developer to help with prototyping a solution. An alternative would be to hire a cofounder to do that... as a "free software engineer", which would actually be extremely expensive in terms of equity.

What do others think? Can a full time senior developer start and lead the development of an MVP?

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[–] ImSolly@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Coming from the tech side just wondering what's the thoughts of others.

Where do you draw the line of being the product person.

Ofc this is speaking from getting from 0-1 where you are still proving the product is feasible. Ofc the clear answer is that the tech co-founder would advise what is not technically feasible. But just building a MVP and testing if people are willing to pay shouldn't take that long especially with so many non-technical tools out there to help build right?(ofc with exception like one of the other comments that MVP took 12months)

Then in the normal scenario wouldn't a tech co-founder be needed only after the MVP stage?