Quote from: Nano1778 on March 07, 2018, 04:32:14 AM

Thank you both for your responses they have helped very much! My project is relatively a simple concept and I would want to make it so that it wouldn't really need to be "ran" too much by a team of workers and that at some point it would be self sustaining. So due to this for my project I wouldn't need a HUGE amount of money for startup through an ICO.

But my question is can I run this project and create my idea without knowing how to code and bringing people on a team to do it for me? And if so has this been done by other projects that any of you may know if?

As others have replied, that has been the case with many ICOs.
One example that comes to mind is Oyster Pearl, which had Bruno Block (founder) in the beginning, and when the project rolled out he started hiring people from all over the world
Start with this article https://medium.com/oysterprotocol/oyster-pearl-team-update-a40fd8abed83 and you can dyor from there if you're interested.
The difference is that Bruno is a dev, and without a dev you can't even create a ERC20 token just for the ICO, so either learn it yourself (hard way) or find someone that could help and develop the idea together (easier way).
Either way, as Nauticus Supervisor said

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you'll need to have an understanding of how capable the team is and what skills they are going to bring to the table.

so check out what clean and well written code looks like (githubs of top20 coins), and try to understand what a good programmer can do and HOW he does it.

There are also examples where community has brought back the "dead" coins (mostly those abandoned by the original developers), PACcoin is a recent example (though nobody knows who the new team is).

When you develop your plan (whitepaper, roadmap etc.) an option is to try to assemble a community (where all involved parties will have some kind of benefit) that will back your idea and help to develop it.
Look @ how Solaris (XLR) is doing things (e.g. https://twitter.com/cryptotrader85/status/969091050139561985 )