I have a proposition/question for the HN community:
Would you be willing to Mentor For Equity?
The idea is this - There are tons of people (like myself) who have ideas they want to build out, but don't have the development chops to implement.
Rather than joining as a technical co-founder -- would you be willing to be a mentor with stake?
You meet on a regular schedule one to two times per week for two hours.
The goal is that the non-tech founder shows up with an agenda, and a goal. You provide guidance, tutorial help and technical knowledge but no development work.
Instead you teach the founder to code towards his goal.
In return, you get some advisory % of the company. Think of this as a personal incubation effort - a MYCombinator.
Does this sound of interest to anyone? If so, meet with me.
This is that same thing, but on a much grander scale.
There may be somebody interested, and I certainly hope that you can get somebody qualified, but I guess the main question I have is why you wouldn't just bring on a technical founder and let them develop it? You'd still have the opportunity to learn by osmosis, and they could give you small chunks of coding tasks to offload some of the stuff that's less important, and you'd probably be done in a quarter of the time, if not less.