You say you've been programming for 9 years. You're 19 or so. That does not equate to true 9 years of experience, compared to say someone who's been working professionally for that long at a 9 - 5 job.

I find it amusing how you penny pinch on day to day food purchases, keeping track of it all in a notebook, but then expect to get hundreds of thousands of dollars of VC money.

I'm far from an expert in this but I don't see how you'd get funding unless you have a really great idea. It's cool how you can create a site really quickly though.