Anyone offer revenue share with needed vendor?

I have contemplated doing this on both sides of the table before.

As the bootstrapper if it gets you something which you need, yet would go without otherwise, then a great move.

As the provider, it all comes down to the belief and interest in the project. If those exist, time is spare and no immediate need for cash it can be a bit of fun. With hopefully some reward.

That said, my dev agency has designers and if I was excited by your project I may be talked into some deal along these lines. Convince me at m@awcode.com

It's very difficult and uncomfortable experience to tell someone to stop in the middle because they are not anymore giving the same attention they promised (or initially given). Without knowing their knowledge level and their coding style it's a annoying risk.

If you know them personally it's a different game, accepting a stranger adds lot of unknown factors.

If you decide to go down this path, you might want to check out the slicing pie method for rewarding risk taken in lieu of payment.

https://slicingpie.com/learn-slicing-pie-model/

It will be very difficult to find someone to help you with this. I’m not saying it’s a bad idea - but the reality is, a lot of designers are cash strapped and don’t have the luxury of taking a risk like this. It will be hard to find someone.

I might suggest that a little sweat equity will go a long way here. Others in the thread already linked to some good resources, but spending a week or so doing it yourself might be worth it. It either saves you $2k in cash right now, or $20k over time.

I think it's a hard.. but possible. Your best bet would be to try to find someone who's likely to love your product and see its potential (like a web dev trying to learn a language).

How is your web dev skills? Have you thought about using a CSS framework like Bulma, Material UI, etc that has a lot of nice components and default styling out of the box?