As a dev myself, you’d need to give them a considerable amount of equity for them to take it seriously tbh, to the point they’d be co-founders. If your launching a tech platform and your non-technical, your likely major start-up cost is going to be engineering. Asking a dev to build it for you without paying them is essentially asking them to take on the risk of your project - if it doesn’t work, you just lose time, whereas they lose weeks / months of labour hours.
Either pitch your idea to someone technical to get a CTO, or try and raise investment. A good app / platform will likely cost 5-20k to make, if not a lot more - no serious developer would do that unless they felt they were being compensated properly.
As a dev myself, you’d need to give them a considerable amount of equity for them to take it seriously tbh, to the point they’d be co-founders. If your launching a tech platform and your non-technical, your likely major start-up cost is going to be engineering. Asking a dev to build it for you without paying them is essentially asking them to take on the risk of your project - if it doesn’t work, you just lose time, whereas they lose weeks / months of labour hours.
Either pitch your idea to someone technical to get a CTO, or try and raise investment. A good app / platform will likely cost 5-20k to make, if not a lot more - no serious developer would do that unless they felt they were being compensated properly.