Hello to all makers, my apologies for my bad English.🙈
I'm in the wave of making money online for more than 10 years, all my business has revolved around SEO (making websites for myself or running client's websites) I've also had my experience in copywriting based business and email lists with infoproducts sales, the latter more as a monetizable hobby than as core business.
The thing is, years ago I had an idea to set up a kind of platform to connect advertisers with content creators (something similar to the link buying platforms between media and advertisers). I hired a programmer, partnered with a guy who had contacts and after a lot of work and melting my savings I abandoned the project, I didn't have enough experience and things were not clear.
But the idea has been in my head ever since, it is useful and solves a concrete problem.
So I'm thinking about going back to it this time with the experience of these years. But since I think about it, I have many doubts.
Do I hire a developer? Where do I find someone to develop this, right now I have no liquidity? Do I look for partners? Do I look for investors?
or (this idea seduces me more) I try to build it myself with non-code tools?
and (above all) do you recommend any no-code tool with wich I can build an early version? Like users sign up and the internal directory of items…
So, any advice you can give me I will be very grateful.
I would say you should talk to people that you believe have the problem in question. Prospect. If the idea validates and your assumptions are correct and people do have the problem, it is now when you should think about bringing it to life.
You can either outsorce (hire a developer) which I would not recommend -- needs money and it can be crappy.
You could find a co-founder, split the business and have him/her build it. (no money involved and it usually is of high(er) quality).
You could use a no/low code solution (I would not recommend this since it is not scalable - imagine your thing takes off, now what? No/low code is not scalable and at some point, you will need dedicated software, which means a complete write of the software from ground up).
Learn to code and build it yourself. (most efficient money-wise + scalable but time consuming + you wear all the hats of doing everything yourself).
Been there through all. Best way is 1. tech co-founder 2. build it yourself
Good luck!