TL;DR: Most non-technical founders pick a build approach (no-code, freelancer, agency, AI tool, hybrid platform) before they've defined what "done" looks like. The result is rebuilds, rewrites, and bills nobody planned for. This post gives you ten questions to ask yourself — and any vendor — before you commit to a build path. Use it as a checklist on your next call. If you're a non-technical founder about to build your first web app, the riskiest moment isn't the code. It's the conversation you have before the code. The decisions you make in that conversation — scope, ownership, hosting, what happens when something breaks at 2am — quietly determine whether you're shipping a product or buying a future rewrite. You don't need to become a developer to make this decision well. You need a checklist. Here it is. 1. Who owns the code, and where does it live? The first question, always. If your answer is "I'm not sure" or "the platform owns it," stop and resolve that before anything else.…