Ask HN: Possibly lucrative idea - no business sense

2 points by johnqfake ↗ HN
I've been working for a little while on an idea which I honestly think has some real potential. To be really vague, it's a sort-of Groupon-style iPhone app for restaurants, but rather than one centralised system, I had forseen customers buying the system and running their own apps from there.

The package consists of iPhone app code (which will be customised) and a PHP backend. The original idea was this was self-installable, but the whole shebang has the possibility of being run SaaS-y.

Now the problem I have is that I lack the business chops to get this off the ground properly - or even know how to get it off the ground. I've tried and I could try harder for sure, but I know someone else can do a much better job. My heart just isn't in that side of things.

Where I currently live there is no network to speak of and being a freelancer who mainly works with other devs, I don't have much in the way of business contacts. I guess I'm curious as to whether there is anything online that I'm unaware of which can put people like me in touch with those who might be interested, whether anyone here would be curious or just what's a good starting point from here for a business-daft dev?

TIA for any advice and I hope this isn't too wildly off topic :)

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