I’m kind of confused right now. At a mere $15k, you could probably get a pretty good software engineer to work for a month on any altruistic project you wish. I’m genuinely curious about why you think your work is so irreplaceable (and I’m not saying it isn’t!).
You could certainly hire a good software engineer at that salary, but I don’t think you could give them a vision and network and trust them to be autonomous. Money isn’t the bottleneck there. Just because you have the funding to hire someone for a role doesn’t mean you can. Hiring is incredibly difficult. Go see YC on hiring, or PG.
Most founding startup people are worth way more than their salary.
I’m kind of confused right now. At a mere $15k, you could probably get a pretty good software engineer to work for a month on any altruistic project you wish. I’m genuinely curious about why you think your work is so irreplaceable (and I’m not saying it isn’t!).
You could certainly hire a good software engineer at that salary, but I don’t think you could give them a vision and network and trust them to be autonomous. Money isn’t the bottleneck there. Just because you have the funding to hire someone for a role doesn’t mean you can. Hiring is incredibly difficult. Go see YC on hiring, or PG.
Most founding startup people are worth way more than their salary.