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Ask HN: Non tech co founder

We haven't started developing the product yet. I've tried to ask him what his role will be and he has become hostile at the question.

He hasn't defined his role, but has said he is the "Founder", and has said that he should haven't to argue with partners to get his point across.

Is asking what his role will be a valid question? He answered that question with a question:

"what do you think it will be? I'm the founder haha my role is everything"...

He also has never written a line of code, and has said he doesn't have time, but has said that he knows how to manage developers.

He wants to outsource all development to India.

He claims the product is "already designed", just step 2 is developing it.

He keeps talking about building a unified platform with API's.

I'm tempted to ask him to define an API, but wouldn't want to upset him.

I've also told him that without working fulltime, the thing would take at least 9 months to develop. He counters, saying that if we can increase head count, we cut the time in half.

"theoretically, if there are 2 of you, we can cut the time in half".

After that, I pointed him to read the book "Mythical man month".

6 points ryanlm 10 years ago 25 comments

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