Xeno_phile

I assume you don't mean to not let people follow your car too closely; what do you mean by "tailgating" here?

I, like many, many people I'm sure, have an idea for an app, but have zero coding/developing knowledge or experience. It's unrelated to my current job so I also don't know anyone personally who has that knowledge/experience.

I don't even know enough to know if it's actually a good idea or not, but in my mind it would involve both mobile and pc versions of the app, along with significant, hopefully subscription based, data storage and networking.

How would I even start? I feel like learning to code myself wouldn't be the proper way, since the complexity would entail years to be able to handle, but I also don't have capital to hire someone to start writing it for me.

It's not like a loss comes out of their budget...

Ah, that makes sense. Where I work I'd say an average of 3-4 people go through the badge-locked door per swipe.

I'm 7 years out of law school and just past that ~45k peak. But I'm in a low/no stress 40hr/week editing job, so I've got that going for me.