Hi All,
As per the title, it’s just me. I don’t want to outsource my application development because I know that it’s very hard to find someone that can bring to life what you have envisioned.
But even if I do find them it’s going to be expensive. Also AI is not really mature enough and no code is pretty restrictive.
I have spent the last two days doing everything under the sun to get a simple authentication to work in my flet app. I do exactly what a tutorial says, modify it a 100 times but sometimes this shit just doesn’t work.
I am building a platform that simplifies the way entrepreneurs connect with their beachhead customers to test their products.
I am technical, I understand app, cloud etc. I am a business man as well as I have built quite a few successful service lines for my company.
How do I overcome this hurdle ? I choose flet because it’s based on python and I can have a single code base for web, mobile, desktop apps.
If you’re gonna say find a co-founder, it’s very hard to find one. I haven’t been lucky to find a good one. I am also comfortable working solo.
I am a solopreneur with limited resources. Coding is killing me.
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Do you know Figma? Yo can build a clickable prototype and take that with a business/marketing plan to angel investors and VCs for money to hire a developer or two.
Simplify the stack. Why use something that would take years to master? Put together a poc that does the job somewhat, prove your business model. Once you have a little revenue then you can hire someone to execute your vision. Don’t get stuck on the details.
– Outsource app design to UI/UX freelancer
– Outsource app design, and features to Figma freelancer
– Build nice ppt
– Pitch to investor
If you get funds, you get to use their funds
If you don’t get funds, you know the success chance is small
If you want to keep going, get a stable job and save money, and hire high quality app developer freelancers.
Use Uizard
At some point you’d have to find a balance. You understand the value of your vision which is a very good thing, but getting bogged down in coding can slow progress.
Here are some perspective I think that could help you. First focus on core functionality, prioritize the features that directly impact connecting entrepreneurs and customers. Maybe some bells and whistles can wait for later. You can also explore libraries or frameworks that handle common functionalities like authentication. This can save you development time and frustration.
And when you are eventually ready to outsource tasks at affordable rates, you can reach out to rocketdevs and they’ll connect you with pre-vetted developers who can handle specific tasks, leaving you enough time to tackle the rest.
You don’t have to do it alone. By focusing on your strengths, leveraging resources, and finding the right support, you can bring your project to life in no time.
What? You’re not technical. You do not understand app, could etc.
Someone who picks flet (I had to look up what the fuck that even is) and then can’t implement auth with a tutorial that tells you exactly how?
Get a developer man
I’m building a no code platform that generates responsive, full stack web applications. At the moment you can create your DB model and the platform will generate all CRUD interfaces, and its API endpoints in one click (create/edit forms, data tables, etc). The login integration is done just by entering your API keys and marking a check box(GitHub, Google, LinkedIn and Microsoft). You can implement user based ACL per API endpoint and per page. You may create custom reusable components, data filters, counters and basic methods to implement your app logic as well, in addition to several premade components. Finally you can deploy your app in a docker container or push the generated code to your GitHub. The stack is Vue(Nuxt), Prisma and MySQL. I’m looking for alpha testers with requirements like yours to test drive the platform for free and help us to fine tune it. Drop me a line if you are interested.
Some thoughts:
* **Did you validate?** – Do you have 20 entrepreneurs lined up that are begging for your service? Or at least specifically talked to 20 business owners this would help? Caution to those that spend time building too much before lining up customers. (Devil’s Advocate, some products you do have to build before anyone is interested.)
* **Sounds like you’re overbuilding** – It’s nice to use a framework that will let you publish to web, mobile and desktop apps. HOWEVER …. However, you’re a new business so unless your idea specifically, has to have, day one needs, absolutely requires a mobile and desktop app … just focus on the web app. If it really takes off, then you can hire the desktop and mobile app out. Right now don’t all 3 is overkill.
* **Think MMVP (Micro Minimum Viable Product)** – Launch with a landing page and a pre-pay Jot form or a Google Form or a Newsletter sign-up. What’s the least you can do to get your idea up in front of people?
* **Boilerplates** – If you do want to jump into building … then many of the basics (including authentication) has been solved by open source or off-the-shelf products you can buy. It’s cheaper to spend $500 on a boilerplate than spend a month getting your app set up.
* **Simplify Requirements** – If you’re having trouble solving authentication, then consider simplifying the login to just a username and password. No other bells and whistles. No Google or Facebook integration.
* **Hit a coding roadblock?** – Hire someone with your stack on Upwork for a couple of hours. (Or hammer ChatGPT with questions … but it sounds like you did that.
* **Other solo indie hacker advice**: [https://twitter.com/adamdenverco/highlights](https://twitter.com/adamdenverco/highlights)
My mentor always told me 70% is better than 100%. Most of the time the remaining UI/UX items you want to get done before launching are going to require you to pivot after getting customer feedback. Get a beta out there and learn from your customers.