I think Fb/Winklevosses situation is an outlier, very unlikely to happen to you. I don't know the size of outsourcing market, but its probably pretty big and as far as I can tell there isn't overwhelming evidence that outsourcing means someone else will steal your idea and get rich off it.

Besides how much did they get from from the lawsuit anyway?

P.S. I freelance and I'm glad to sign a NDA before starting, not that I need one to stop me from stealing their ideas. First I don't really care. Ideas are great, but they need lot of work to make it happen. Two, my projects list (like almost any other programmer's) is full of stuff I'd try if I had 36 hours in a day and needed no sleep.

The first time I applied as a "non-technical" founder, needless to say that didn't work. YC seems to have a bias towards hackers (don't quote me on this, but I think they've only funded one non-technical founder project ever), and probably rightly so.

You could always try to learn php or Rails (I'd recommend latter since that's what I do for a living and fun these days) and apply to y comb. Like you mentioned you don't want to become a programmer, so are you motivated to spend weeks, maybe months hitting your head against the wall?

Or you could validate your idea and build your business in that time. Get something out asap, sell like hell and maybe if it works out and apply again (you'd probably be one of the few with a proven model and market).

If I had the option back then to outsource I would've gladly done so. That said I wouldn't trade learning Rails, then Ruby for (almost) nothing else.

This isn't a cut and dry question, can't get any more specific than this. Hope that helps a little better :)