Dervieux Benoît

As a non-technical founder, I had teamed up with an engineer I'd known for a couple of years. We were even accepted into an Seattle incubator. The day before incubator kickoff, after working for 90 days on my app concept, my co-founder withdrew and refused to meet with me to discuss the matter. An investigation turned up the fact that his intention was to steal my idea - he'd already paid someone to develop a logo for him and had a live competing site. See? https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ak8_mGXlfQFk... I've spent time during covid isolation thinking about other things: decided to let it go, take care of myself and family, to re-visit my startup a few months down the road when I wasn't so upset by the betrayal. Did I even want to seek out another cofounder? Nocode sounds pretty interesting to me as a way to get an MVP out the door and test out the concept in the market. I genuinely recognize the value of a technical partner, but maybe I should just be in charge of my own destiny for the time being. If you've tried this and can share your experience, I'd sure appreciate it!

Full disclosure : my team and I are building an application which will have Stories of/by founders, a Game in which you can play the founder of a startup and run it from idea to IPO, a Chat-bot to interact with, where gurus will suggest learning content curated/created by founders (which helped them understand a certain concept for eg. Negotiation) So I'm taking in more feedback to make final changes to it before going live in various phases starting November. Do let me know your thoughts on the same and thankyou.

I'll start first: Facebook Ads. We've realized it's simply too early to advertise there (most SaaS companies were optimizing for 12-20 months return on investment, so they could allow to spend much more to acquire a customer). What about you?