"You Are Really Just Looking for Someone to Build Your App" --I totally agree with this sentiment. Looking for a co-founder should be almost as serious if not just as serious as looking for a spouse. A lot of "non-technical" people could benefit from having this mindset.

This actually makes a lot of sense. It hadn't dawned on me that I was looking in the wrong places.

It's funny, but I've been to programmer user group meetings where all I met was idea guys looking for programmers.

It's like a bunch of teenage boys thinking they are going to meet hot girls at a party, only to find out it's all boys at the party.

Thanks for making me think about my methods.

Your article is spot-on! For the non-technical people - how about figuring out how to bring value to technical people's products they are ALREADY building. From that mindset, you'll have millions of projects to work on, and have the chance to forge true friendships that may last a lifetime - if not, a career.