Getting access to developers is not hard. It's not even that expensive to build an MVP in most cases, you can find great quality outside the states. Just go on upwork (or similar). If you don't have the skills qualified hire someone to do it.
If you want to build something quick with no knowledge - learn to market, hire, vet, document, and delegate tasks effectively. The fastest way to learn this is through case studies on upwork IMO in tandem with a course on outsourcing. Search open jobs, filter by amount paid + number of reviews, you can see what someone who has spent $100k+ on the site vs someone who's spent $0. This information is all public. You can come across some really interesting case studies/data, e.g. how Disney analyzes ride wait times with actual data, or how mechanical turk is used for UX feedback.
You can leverage conversations between different developers to learn insights about things you need to do. It's similar to this - you have a terminal illness, you'll want to go to several doctors before choosing one. You weigh options effectively this way.
In parallel you can always learn to program, so you can communicate and vet better. And hack shit together on your own. But really you should treat them as two seperate entities. A top down approach (delegating, hiring for real world work) and a bottoms up approach (learning to do things via toy projects). You can take the halfway approach and use prebuilt tools as well (zapier, wordpress, etc), it just depends what the project scope is.
Pick 2 of 3, do it fast - do it well - do it cheap
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