I&#x27;ll chime in for what it&#x27;s worth.<p>Can you be successful, yes.<p>Can you get funding, yes.<p>But, you won&#x27;t get funding with an idea and a team of what you think are good programmers.  You&#x27;ll need a good execution of your idea and traction with paying customers. Can you get to that point with your own money?  Or better yet, should you even try?<p>And here&#x27;s the problem with being non-technical.  How do you know if the money you&#x27;re spending on the programmers is going to yield you something useable. For instance, I could build you a basic Twitter clone in a day and you would be impressed when I showed it to you.  What you wouldn&#x27;t know is that the whole thing will fall apart soon as more than a few thousand people start using it. Worse, at the point it falls apart you&#x27;ll have to build an entirely new and costly replacement. All while the thousands of users you worked hard to acquire bolt for the door.<p>IMO, this is the biggest issue with not having a technical co-founder.  It&#x27;s not insurmountable, but the risk of technological failure is much higher.<p>If I were you, I&#x27;d spend all my time vetting the idea. Talking to customers and getting them to buy a product that&#x27;s not built yet.  One problem I already see is that you seem hesitant to explain your idea here.  That&#x27;s a red flag to me and mostly everyone else here.<p>For instance, here two ideas I&#x27;m thinking about right now:<p>1) A business making all natural wooden toys, finished with an all organic wax, and build from locally sourced, already felled trees.  It would be branded Cape Cod Toy Factory and would sell initially to local toy shops where I live.  People on vacation love stuff like this and it makes for a great vacation gift.  There is no one in this space now.<p>2) A blog platform for artistic types where everything is hand drawn, words, images, everything.  This would be for people with a MS Surface or like devices.  It would use handwriting recognition to underlay their handwritten words for search engines and render there drawings and text on html canvas.  Reading this blog would be like reading someone&#x27;s personal handwritten journal.<p>See that&#x27;s the thing about ideas.  Most people are going to hear your idea and say, &quot;that&#x27;s stupid&quot; or &quot;that&#x27;s a good idea&quot;, but very few will say &quot;I&#x27;m going to rip that off&quot;.  Ultimately no one will have the fortitude to follow through with your vision but you.<p>Best of luck!