How do I startup if I'm not a developer?
tjic: What's your team so far?1) you: the "idea guy"2) a designer ("another" designer ... so you're a designer too?)A great hacker is more key to making something great (and profitable) than a great designer.IMO, the team should be either:1) hacker, hacker2) hacker, semi-hacker/semi-bizdev/semi-designer3) hacker, bizdevor something like that.* Hewlett Packard was #1.* Google is #1.* Apple was #2: Woz and Jobs.I think you've got the fundamental mix of your team wrong.Put the idea on hold and start networking to meet hackers.Go to Ruby and Rails get-togethers with a stack of business cards.  Look for the crufty kid who looks like he sleeps in a cardboard box with his skateboard.  Look for the fat guy with the ponytail and beard.  Look for the quiet guy who never talks much.  Chat these folks up, give them your card, and find out why they're studs (or, if they're not studs, find out who they regard as studs).Meet these folks for coffee.  Throw your idea out there.  Listen to their ideas (coming up with ideas is the hard part).As a matter of fact, ignore your idea.Keep networking.Sooner or later you'll find one or two other guys who you click with, and with whom you've got a lot of mutual respect.Then do something with them.It probably won't be the idea you have right now.