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I believe 7k is good enough money to put together a MVP if you know little bit of programming. Or talk to a programmer and convince him to work on this project on a 50% partnership along with 5k monetary compensation. I believe if you contact few programmers and clearly express your idea and where will it go in long term then somebody is going to help you. At least to build a MVP which you can test to see if it has any potential to go anywhere.

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Do you know of a good source to seek people? I'm skeptical of most freelance sites because they're generalized and used by a lot of people who just want to "make money online".

If you were seeking a programmer, where would you go to?

Yes there are good programmers in those freelance sites. You need to find the needle in those haystacks.

1. Post a project on Elance or Guru or other freelance sites where you specifically ask them for their Github and stackoverflow profile. I believe every good programmers do not maintain regular Github profile. But most of them do and from their Github profile you can have an idea on quality of code they can deliver.

I found a programmer from Russia who had a very high reputation score on Stackoverflow and arguable he came out as a proficient one. But convincing a programmer to work on your project is another challenge. They have enough projects under their belt. So your projects need to challenge/thrill them to work on. Else they will not stick for long.

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