news.ycombinator.com• Jan 7, 2023• 1 min read
Should I bring on a Co-Founder?Hello hackers! I am current building a generative AI application that has 1700 users, of which 200 are paying $9/month. My background is essentially 10 years in digital marketing, system and process development for franchises, and inbound/outbound sales, whereas I only have 4 months of programming experiencing.I have built my entire application in react, using OpenAI's API of course, and I think that my project is novel and has potential to become quite large if executed properly. I've only been developing my app for 2 months now and everything is happening quite fast.I "feel" like I have everything handled and of course my to-do list and list of requested features is getting longer and longer, but I keep thinking if I could just hold out a little bit longer I can hire SOME of my problems away. Whether this be through freelancers or hiring full time help in-person or remote. This is more attractive to me because giving away equity is expensive.It seems that every single Y Combinator vi