Thanks!
I'm a UX'er by trade, a self-taught mechanic/builder by hobby, and languages are my achilles heel with learning. So, I've taken A LOT of flack for many years, for not learning how to code, beyond my basic understanding of how things all fit together, need to support each other, and being able to edit other peoples HTML/CSS.
As a solo-founder however, it's all on me to deliver. Advisors and investors have (as gently as possible) told me that.
https://generalassemb.ly/ is expensive, but it's done a great job in a classroom setting, teaching app frameworks basics to n00bs. When I have the money and the bandwidth, I'm looking forward to taking it. Then there's also https://www.hackerschool.com/about, which is a paid retreat, so expensive on many levels.
I was really impressed with the codeacademy.com experience, and it filled-in many blanks for me that made me feel competent in CSS and HTML, for the first time ever. Using Javascript with JQuery is going to be a much more daunting challenge, because its entire mental model I still don't grok.
But, I'm trying, anyway. I managed to get one critical JQuery piece to work, and the other—I gave-up on but am coding the page, anyway with a static stand-in. I figure that once I've gotten all of the HTML and CSS and what of the JQuery I could do, done, at that point it will be easier to get friends to help me patch the holes. If not, then I will just pay a freelance Javascript person, to spend a day patching holes (and I honestly don't see what holes there will be, taking a day). Remember: Minimum Viable Product, doesn't' need to be fancy. :)
From, a gal who's gone-in kicking and screaming with every bit of learning code... but will probably be a more well rounded CEO, for it.
http://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/2h0uy1/whats_a_p...
I can always provide more about myself, but my idea is an app that hopes to improve the customer experience, by connecting local business and customers in a way that has not been done.
Hope this help, I think 50/50 can work and I am willing to learn or do what it takes. I have been told I am an extremely resourceful person and not afraid to put myself out there to make a project succeed.
Your start market prediction algorithm sounds really neat. Let me know when I can invest :)
Often times, 50/50 partnerships fail because of differing expectations. What are you expecting from the other half of the partnership? What will you be able to contribute?
Many ideas can be validated by with manually, before software is written.
The CEO of [Treatings](http://treatings.co) used a spreadsheet to keep track of users, and sent all the emails by hand until he validated the idea. Off the top of my head, AirPair, ZeroCater, and WuFoo were all founded similarly.
Programmers are more amenable to partnerships where you've got a manual process that can automated, than an idea.
How are you going to improve the customer experience?
Personally, I would be able to contribute the other half of the operation. I have some funding lined up already as well as some connection for expansion and marketing.
The owners of the above companies began with say their website, and then started to build a customer base before adopting an app or further development?
For your idea there is a, 'secret sauce' that you fake until you have traction.
Say for example, your app improves the customer experience by drawing a smiley face on every receipt. You think that customers love seeing a smiley face so much that they'll come back the next day.
Rather than build a complex point of sale system that prints smiley faces on receipts, you do something simpler.
You hide under the counter, and draw a smiley face on each receipt yourself.
If people come back(validate your idea) then you can start signing up store owners.
Having several pre-sales, plus some stats about how your system demonstrably improves the customer experience will help you find an engineer to build out your idea.
If you share your USP, we can tell you how to manually validate your idea.
Ideas are a lot of fun to think about, but it's work to bring them to fruition.
When it comes to a partnership, people want to know about you, and what you bring to the table.
Add a comment about your personal background, or your idea. Everyone here is working on their own idea, so your idea is safe :)
You'll find that people are more likely to ignore you, than steal your idea.
Find a developer first who is interested. They'll tell you their motivation. Maybe they believe in the idea like crazy and want to build this. If so, maybe 50/50 could work. Maybe they are just looking for an item on their empty resume and can commit only about a month on this project. If so, 50/50 definitely is a recipe for disaster.