completely agree. you can make progress quickly and cheaply, and start learning about the customers and technology, by outsourcing. in my view, it will be nice to have a scaling or slow code problem--for many web apps, that proves that there is demand and its worth investing more time an d$.

using a rented coder has worked in the past--digg was started with help from elance.

http://digg.com/programming/Digg_com_created_for_only_200_00

elance, guru, and odesk offer cheap options to start small.