Title: Long-time reader, first-time poster.<p>Thanks to HN and several other forums on the web, I've cobbled together a business that makes me about $5k-7/month. I'm not seeing a whole lot of growth in demand for my product, but one of my sales tools (a twist on a common tool that I faked together in PHP despite having no engineering background) always gets a very positive response and closes me a lot of sales at prices way above typical for products like mine.<p>The space I'm in is a sexy, popular space.  Can't say what it is, but lots of people want to work in it.<p>Recently I heard about a prestigious grant contest for businesses in my space and applied.  To my pleasant surprise, I've recently learned I'm being awarded $100k specifically to further develop the sales tool I cooked up (sorry for the intentionally vague language) so I can offer it to other businesses in my space who sell products like the one I've been selling.<p>This seems like a pretty good idea.  To use an obvious allusion, I've been mining gold with middling success, but while doing so, I unwittingly invented a really kickass shovel.  Eventually I learned that my shovels were in fact awesome and now I've got some capital to develop and sell these shovels to other miners at scale so they can make a better go of it.<p>Here's my problem.  To really capitalize on this windfall I need someone who can actually hack.  I don't know the first thing about creating a web app that scales.  Unfortunately, I live in a remote area and there aren't a lot of programmers around here. Furthermore, I've never hired a developer before so I suspect any job posting I put up would be a big turn-off to the sort of person I'd want to work with.  I read all the posts on here making fun of bad job listings and they make me really paranoid.<p>Suggestions on how to proceed?<p>Edit: If anyone wants to reach out to me, you can get me at rexfaraday at gmail dot com
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