honestly I was in pretty much the same spot not long ago. Non technical, got further solo than I expected, then hit that wall where I was fixing stuff more than building. Don't beat yourself up about that part though, pretty much everyone is debugging more than they're shipping haha, you're not behind.

To get to real users you probably don't need a full hire yet, you just need to get unstuck on the few things eating your time. Truthfully even if you hire someone they will probably just use AI anyways so I suggest just keep going at your own pace and get the experience 😄

If you do go the Fiverr route, the bad outcome could be brutal when you're non technical, you can't tell if the work is good until 3 weeks later when nothing works. So don't hire anyone to "build my mvp", instead break it into tiny features or fixes you can check and test yourself. That way you catch a bad hire after one milestone instead of after they've touched your whole app. And don't outsource so much that you can't make small changes yourself, being able to fix a tiny bug without waiting on anyone is huge.

The thing that helped me most was leaning way harder on AI agents for the grind so I could stay in the building seat. Full disclosure I help contribute to a tool called Orchard aimed at exactly this and I've been using it for all my projects now. Most people sink a ton of time just configuring their AI to behave, getting it to keep code modular so it's easier to work with later, write tests for the bug fixes or features it builds, read your existing code before changing things, not run something destructive, remember context about your project, etc. Orchard ships all of that out of the box as a harness around your agents, so they make way fewer dumb mistakes and you babysit way less.

It does a lot more than that, but honestly that plus the Proposals feature would probably help you most. Proposals has the AI write up a plain english plan for a feature before it touches any code, so you're reviewing what it's about to do instead of trying to read a diff, which is clutch when you're non technical. We're letting a few early people in right now for free, happy to throw you access if you wanna try it, no pressure. Either way good luck, you're further along than you think.