Ask HN: Finding a technical lead in Cambridge, MA?

Over the last several months, I have tested and validated a business opportunity in the legal space. Customers are very interested - 4 or the last 5 have asked to be part of a paid Beta as soon as possible. I'd like to get something workable into customers hands as soon as possible, but am hamstrung by my technical skills.

I'm by background and skillset much more business than technically oriented. I know enough Python/Django to be dangerous and have built a working proof-of-concept / demo. However, I know when I'm at the limit of my capabilities, and to take it from POC to working product, would like to bring on someone to help buildout a real product.

Some of the problems that need to be solved for (many of which I've been dealing with in one capacity or another): - web scraping. Done mostly with BeautifulSoup to date + lots of custom regexes. There are a lot of corner cases to deal with. - regularly scraping 10,000s of pages and watching for changes on those pages - entity and person disambiguation. Pulling info on a number of entities and people. Need to figure out when Acme Corp. is Acme Corporation is Acme and John Smith is John P Smith, etc. - advanced searching and alerting based on those searches (search agents?) - transactional emails (alerts) based on search agents

My ideal partner here would be someone with the technical (frontent/backend) capabilities to take what I've done, and build a grown-up product. I'm very comfortable on the business side of this equation, and leading the customer development components.

If you're interested, let me know and I can divulge a bit more.