Try explaining that you're an "idea guy" looking for a programmer to implement your great ideas, and that you'll compensate them in equity when you make it big, because your ideas are worth so much more than anyone's execution.

This is a big issue with gigwork, major underpayment for services leading to non-livable wages for workers. This is about the level, too, pennies for dollars.

I just learned about the law change, and I think it's driven in part by the low wages of Uber drivers and a recent lawsuit there.

Great, you built a unicorn on the broken backs of low wage earners, structured the unicorn to avoid your share of infrastructure taxes (social security, workmans comp, road use taxes), but could you have done it with a less destructive wage structure? Probably. The laws have to catch up.

You offered to pay very little - Increase your budget to get replies.

Sounds like you got lucky.

You still have your $200 and don't have a pile of poo posing as a web app.