Not a bad idea by any stretch, but it helps to know what you're looking for when you do hire someone.
Plus, if you just have a little itch to scratch, it can be a lot less work to implement the damn thing yourself, regardless of whether it's elegant or scalable or perfect. Microsoft's original product was built on your model (Gates farmed out the compiler IIRC) but he certainly had a good idea of what qualities he was looking for in a programmer.
Plus, if you just have a little itch to scratch, it can be a lot less work to implement the damn thing yourself, regardless of whether it's elegant or scalable or perfect. Microsoft's original product was built on your model (Gates farmed out the compiler IIRC) but he certainly had a good idea of what qualities he was looking for in a programmer.