If your goal is to build a product that will scale, I'd highly recommend getting a technical co-founder, or at the very least a technical advisor, early on. Coding is only one piece of the puzzle. Setting up scalable infrastructure, ensuring everything is secure, and understanding the overall system design take more extensive knowledge. ChatGPT will provide you with the code snippets you ask for meaning that if you ask for custom authentication, ChatGPT will probably gladly do so but experienced software engineers know that homegrown auth is a risky road. Additionally, writing code that works and writing quality code that other engineers will be able to easily digest and update are two different ballgames. If you hire someone with experience post pilot launch, know it's very possible they may recommend scrapping the existing code base / infra and starting over for a multitude of reasons. I'm not necessarily saying don't do it, but even if your MVP and pilot launch go well, be prepared for the possibility it will need a rework from an experienced engineer before you're able to scale it or add new features.
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