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Biggest bugbear is that 90% of the time, non-technical people are just looking for a CRUD app. Basic user auth, chat, forum, mobile app. Etc. The age-old scaffold. It's just dull.

I'm a technical person looking for a non-technical person who can absolutely smash the sales/ops/marketing side of things, and has a killer idea in a domain they know like the back of their hand. The struggle I've found, e.g. on hn startupschool, is that people have ideas that are unproven. Like, they haven't even scrappily pieced together an mvp. They feel blocked by a lack of what is almost always yet another CRUD app. Most non-technical-domain things, outside of dev SaaS or super-technical products (which a non-eng has no business doing) can be 'behind-the-curtain' 'fake till you make it' products IMHO so I feel a bit let down when someone comes along with an idea and have hit a barrier without even trying to scrappily piece together their product with bits-and-pieces.




If you haven't tried solving it with an Excel spreadsheet, I'm not interested in signing the NDA to hear your idea.




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