Hiring a cheap freelance programmer from one of those freelancer website would probably be a better use of time and money. As long as it's just for the prototype.

Just don't be fooled into thinking freelance programmers can replace a technical co-founder, unless perhaps your application is effectively a simple CMS application.

Even if you don't build a prototype, at the very least you should have mockups and/or designs for a basic version of the application.