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Have you tried to learn basic web development? If you have time, invest a few weeks either way. I don't think you're being unfair if you're offering free housing, fair equity and free food. It is more than what most cofounders offer one another. However you have to find people who are passionate enough about your idea to make it their own and have a good working relationship with.

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totally agreed abbasmehdi "find people who are..." and thanks for the comment.

regarding basic web development: we've built several sites over the last 10 years, but have never learned to hack in a language (e.g. RoR); just bits of code as needed and lots of 'wysiwyg' manipulation.

we're basically trying to build a web application and think given our current jobs and lives it would take us a year or longer (much, much longer!) to acquire that sort of skill set, so we think best handled by experts (or experts in training).

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