"You have developed most of the idea, and now you just need to round the corners, this is a perfect job for someone that just wants a pay check."
I'm not sure this is the case. It sounds like the "it's nearly done" is based on the developer's word, and there isn't actually anything demoable right now. If that's true, and given that it's taken her 12 months to finish a Django website, I think it's a good bet that all her existing code is unusable and will have to be thrown out. If you understand Django, it should not take you a year to finish a website; more likely, the dev doesn't understand Django and doesn't really have anything working.
you maybe right, every time someone left on one of our projects, we forfeited the code. ...and we are developers, it was always easier for us to take what we learned from the previous code, and then to design something simpler and more elegant. one of our guys has really turned me on to the track of design for use, and not for maintenance. Which tends to get stuff out of the door.
You know another option is for drinko to start a new company, and license the tech from this company to the new one, to avoid all of the bullshit.
Drinko, in all likelyhood, you are starting over at this point. I have seen 3 projects fail this way. Your BEST BET is to learn to code.
I'm not sure this is the case. It sounds like the "it's nearly done" is based on the developer's word, and there isn't actually anything demoable right now. If that's true, and given that it's taken her 12 months to finish a Django website, I think it's a good bet that all her existing code is unusable and will have to be thrown out. If you understand Django, it should not take you a year to finish a website; more likely, the dev doesn't understand Django and doesn't really have anything working.