I am a solo founder in a situation where I am pretty much damned if I say "we" or damned if I say "I" since I do have a team. They are all friends and contractors some working for a little equity but others just on contract.

The problem I run into is I want to include them when talking about developments "we" have made on our app, but at the same time, in startup circles people immediately think I am BS'ing them on how big my team is.

If I use "I" and then can't go into every minute detail of our database architecture and API calls, and why we chose that instead of X, Y and Z, I look like a fraud. I trust my developers to help point me in the right direction with regard to languages, API's, development processes and the like. They give me the general details and I make the call.

To solve this issue, among others, I am basically learning everything I can about the developing and by the time this hits V-2.0 I should at least be able to build v-1.0 from scratch on my own.