[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?
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Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?
I just stumbled upon an old Ask HN with the same topic from 2010
and I thought this could be useful to resurrect. You should
probably mention what you are working on, where you are located,
what stage you are in, who you are looking for, what you can bring
to the table and a way to contact you.
Author : notoriousarun
Score : 198 points
Date : 2021-01-05 12:26 UTC (10 hours ago)
| dabreegster wrote:
| Hi, I'm Dustin, and I've been working on abstreet.org for about
| ~2.5 years to fight car dependency in cities. Aiming to explore
| and advocate for short-term transportation changes like creating
| low-traffic neighborhoods and fleshing out bike and bus networks,
| and moonshot ideas like congestion charging zones in city
| centers, superblocks, and zoning changes. Targeting the general
| public, rather than planners who've already got tools they trust,
| for education, gathering feedback, and prompting citizen
| advocacy.
|
| We've been growing an open source & academic community fairly
| well, but I want to hire more full-time engineers, and money's
| becoming a limiting factor. Looking for a partner on the business
| and PM side, so I can focus on the technical. The huge disclaimer
| is that I'm unwilling to compromise on the project being open
| source, so I have no idea how to squeeze a business model in
| here. I've also done a terrible job so far of actually getting
| public transit / cycling advocacy groups on board, so the need
| for a PM is pretty severe to make sure we're building the right
| thing.
|
| Contact on github or HN.
| halfeatenpie wrote:
| Hi Dustin!
|
| I saw your work on Hacker News last year and I forwarded it to
| a colleague of mine working in the academic side of
| Transportation Engineering. They found your work interesting
| and complemented on your visualizations.
|
| If I could suggest something, it might be useful to reach out
| to professors at your local university whose research interests
| coincides with your software's application (you can shop around
| as well).
|
| They can probably help you with the following:
|
| 1. Provide cutting-edge technology and ideas related to
| transportation engineering
|
| 2. Offer a method/connection to the local DOT or other agencies
| who may be interested in this as a decision support system
| (DSS).
|
| 3. Maybe even find a partner or... (and I think this might be a
| better option) help you establish a steering committee or a
| group of advisors who can then make recommendations to
| supplement your skillsets.
|
| You might even be able to temporarily support your open source
| model through grant funding and application to different
| "cutting-edge" applied projects and, if you can, develop those
| technology in a generalizable way (a framework) to be used as a
| shiny feature for your application. Grow it up to be a one-
| stop-shop with the latest and greatest.
|
| I'd be happy to discuss a bit more to help you navigate these
| waters.
|
| Cheers,
|
| Don
|
| P.S. regarding finding a partner for the business side, what
| might be useful is to reach out to the local universities in
| your area and see if their business college/program has a
| "founders meet-and-greet" program. At our current institution
| we have programs in place to connect founders with a business
| counterpart which has resulted in establishing some growing
| companies. In addition, you can probably take this opportunity
| to network with a few professors and (as an advisor) be willing
| to put their name to the product for technical
| knowledge/support.
| dabreegster wrote:
| Don,
|
| Wow, thanks for the detailed ideas! I've resisted joining
| academia myself, but that shouldn't prevent finding partners
| there. Recently I started working with 3 transportation/civil
| engineering professors, and their expertise is already
| helping to fill some gaps with the project. I'll try more
| aggressively looking for more academics to loop in. UW in
| Seattle almost certainly has this sort of meet-and-greet;
| I'll poke around and see if they have anything happening
| online these days.
|
| Thanks again! -Dustin
| dgellow wrote:
| Wow, that's a fascinating project. Wish you all the best.
| gnarrwall wrote:
| Hi Dustin, Dave here. I just spent the last 4 years building
| out a parking management software firm which was recently
| acquired by our largest PE backed competitor. In doing that, I
| raised money, handled all forecasting & accounting, ran all
| sales operations (municipal is mostly done via an RFP process)
| and managed the high level product roadmap from our strategic
| objectives backwards. Most importantly, I have experience in
| successfully building long term relationships & contracting
| with over 250 Cities across the US, which I believe will be key
| to success in monetizing your product long term. If you'd like
| to chat further, please shoot me an email at
| dhyj7771@gmail.com. I have some ideas for open-source first
| monetization I think might be useful to you, even if we don't
| find longer term synergy from a conversation.
| alex-treebeard wrote:
| Hi there, I'm Alex.
|
| I'm a freelance engineer who works on devtools.
|
| I am interested in data infrastructure, and just released a tool
| for analysing docker image disk usage
| https://github.com/treebeardtech/whaler.
|
| My long-term goal is to create SaaS products which complement my
| open source contributions. Very happy to chat with others with
| similar goals.
|
| https://twitter.com/AlexRemedios1 alex@treebeard.io
| coinward wrote:
| Happy 2021! Mycofounder and I are building Swym, a prize linked
| savings app using Bitcoin. We're located in the bay area. As a
| team our background is finance and js development. Were looking
| to add another engineer! Feel free to check the app out on
| github, https://github.com/Swym-Pools/Swym_App
|
| Please reach out if interested, steve@coinward.capital
|
| Cheers!
| bjr- wrote:
| I'm the technical founder of Kanopi and I'm looking for a co-
| founder. https://kanopi.io
|
| Kanopi is...
|
| - a tool that blurs the line between private note-taking and
| public linked data
|
| - a part-time project from 2015 - Sept 2020, full-time since then
|
| - my attempt to explicitly support more of the thinking/learning
| process (capture, collection, organization, synthesis, analysis,
| and maybe recall)
|
| --- excluding functionality for presentation and real-time
| collaboration
|
| - in private alpha - request an invite at kanopi.io!
|
| The problems I'm trying to solve with Kanopi are:
|
| - remove frictions from note-taking by using data on the web to
| suggest notes and links
|
| - make notes useful across contexts/projects by adding outlines
| (Trees) and mind-maps/diagrams (Maps) on top of your notes
|
| --- notes are not contained in these tools, they are referenced
|
| - make notes more meaningful over time by encouraging smaller
| notes, with titles, that have labeled links to other notes (
| _how_ is X related to Y?)
|
| From user interviews I think academics and professional
| researchers experience these problems most acutely so they are my
| focus at this stage.
|
| As some on this thread have discussed -- I don't expect to make
| this decision lightly, but if this sounds interesting and you
| feel it is a good fit then please reach out.
| elevenbits wrote:
| Hi HN,
|
| I'm the founder of AgMaps (https://agmaps.us) -- simple and fast
| drone mapping software for Agriculture. Map 160 acres in as
| little as 15 minutes on your iPad while the drone flies, then
| locate areas of stress or damage and walk out to manually
| inspect. High resolution visual and thermal imagery lets you see
| issues quickly without walking thousands of acres, leading to
| faster and more accurate inspection.
|
| I'm looking for a non-technical co-founder to bring this
| technology to market, primarily targeting agronomy co-ops,
| fertilizer, seed, and crop insurance businesses in the midwestern
| US. Individual crop consultants may be interested as well. If you
| can sell software to Agribusinesses, lets talk. devin [at]
| agmaps.us.
| stewjacks wrote:
| I've been working on a b2b SaaS side project in the computerized
| maintenance management space for the past ~4 years (
| https://salientforms.com ). Revenue is great for a side project,
| however I'd like to build the feature set out to appeal to more
| clients, and generally do business development.
|
| My background is compsci/software/hardware engineering, as well
| as the practical and physical side of how this sort of product
| works (urban systems, transportation, construction, maintenance).
| I'm looking for biz dev, growth, and interesting product ideas.
| My ideal co-founder would be someone who's worked in or has
| connections to the world of transportation, is motivated to find
| clients and grow a business, and is reasonably good at hacking
| and coming up with prototype ideas.
|
| I'm in Toronto. Location doesn't really matter, but the product
| has a slight skew toward winter right now so a Canadian who knows
| would be ideal. Reach out via the site link above or via github.
| stevesimmons wrote:
| That's a really interesting - if unfashionable - vertical.
|
| What size companies are you targeting?
|
| (In a previous life -- um, 24 years ago -- I built a prototype
| for an Australian mining company using a Microsoft Access-based
| master database to coordinate safety inspections with a
| primitive pen-based handheld computer. At the time it was
| leading edge... even got invited to presenting tutorials on it
| at the NOSH 1997 conference in South Africa.)
| stewjacks wrote:
| You've got to be unfashionable to attract unfashionable ;)
|
| I've been working with large corporations and governmental
| bodies in transportation, and integrating with their own
| internal tooling.
|
| Upgrade cycles are so slow for large governmental bodies that
| I wouldn't be surprised if there was appeal for a Windows CE
| 3.0 version...
| areoform wrote:
| Your website appears to be down. It might be helpful to link to
| github and/or an email address.
| stewjacks wrote:
| Profile's updated. The old hackernews effect on my server -
| try https://www.salientforms.com
| isbwkisbakadqv wrote:
| I'm a medical doctor (general internal medicine) in the United
| States. I have some technical background having done a lot of R
| and programming during my PhD in statistics genetics. I don't
| have an active project but I'm interested in joining in with
| anyone who could use me. Skills: medicine, genetics,
| bioinformatics I also feel like I am a good communicator with
| business types, for what it's worth.
| Winterflow3r wrote:
| Hi! Sorry for hijacking this topic a bit, but I'm a computer
| programmer interested in medicine - could I ask you a few
| questions about your experience? you can reach me at
| camilla[at]synbyote.io and here is some info about me
| https://race-conditions.net/ https://blog.race-conditions.net/
| Ace__ wrote:
| Hello.
|
| I wouldn't say I am looking for a co-founder, but am open to
| connecting to see who is out there that may have an interest in
| what I have been working on, and start a dialogue.
|
| So, it's been around 6 years now, that I have been working on a
| startup system that guides founders from initial idea to launch,
| early traction, problem-solution fit. At this point if you are
| thinking do you really want to follow the system of someone who
| has taken 6 years, I'll have to smirk and note your somewhat
| valid point.
|
| It took 4 years of working with founders, and investors, to get
| the initial framework sorted out, which I made in Excel. I took
| another year to go through the framework again, and remake part
| of it in Access. Evidently I have a thing for MS. I released the
| Access version with the first few steps just here actually:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22445660
|
| Got around 120-ish users, got the feedback, etc, etc, and have
| been going through the framework again, and working on MVP v3.
| Currently, I am redesigning the UI, polishing various content,
| few other bits and bobs.
|
| In terms of what I bring to the table: 24-25 years marketing and
| sales, 11-ish years working with startups, 4-5 years investor
| portfolio support (family offices and a couple of VC's), investor
| relations, investor readiness, scout for a few VC's, etc, etc.
|
| I should state I have another startup that has been running for 3
| ish years, and am also working on a growth system as well. I
| shall leave you with a link to a page that shows where I stand on
| some issues pertaining to startups:
| https://startizer.com/problems-with-startup-material
|
| On a different note, I see a fair few founders looking to have a
| chat about their MVP, about early adopters, about launching, etc,
| etc. Happy to have a chat, don't want anything in return.
|
| Oh, one last thing, at no point will I be looking for outside
| investment, not looking to go big or go home, am already stuck at
| home as it is.
|
| Cheers, Ace.
|
| Edit: Sheesh, contact details; ace(at)startizer.com
| s314159265358 wrote:
| LOOKING FOR CO-STREAMER TO BUILD MY DEEP LEARNING STREAM ON
| TWITCH. WE CAN BUILD PROJECTS ON STREAM AND THEN YOUTUBE VIDEOS
| mellosouls wrote:
| Best wishes with your projects, please drop the capitals
| though.
| [deleted]
| Scott_Kerr wrote:
| I am in the early stages of a biotech startup.
|
| I am working on developing the next generation of antibiotics and
| am located in Salt Lake City.
|
| I am a solo founder at this point and would like to spread out
| the founder burdens.
|
| I have a PhD in molecular biology and a lot of industry
| experience, particularly in regulatory and product/market fit.
|
| You can reach out to me at: scottanthonykerr@protonmail.com
| vekker wrote:
| Anyone interested in (lucid) dreaming?
|
| I've got a side/passion project that I've been working on for...
| quite a while. It's called https://oneironotes.com and it's a
| dream journal app for (lucid) dreamers. Think Evernote (or well,
| that's a bit old now... let's say Notion or Bear or Standard
| Notes... so, a note-taking app) specifically for "oneironauts".
|
| Currently there's a pilot version as a PWA available for a
| lifetime subscription, but I'm working on more robust, mobile &
| desktops apps.
|
| As a sole founder & developer I've been doing everything myself.
| I'm not really actively looking for a co-founder, but if anyone
| here is interested in working with me on this, send me a message!
| Technical or not, doesn't really matter. The project would mostly
| benefit from someone who's an experienced lucid dreamer, knows
| the niche and has excellent marketing & community building and/or
| design skills. Contact details on the website.
| scottydelta wrote:
| Hi there, I am Vikash and I have been working on Quantale(Demo:
| https://quantale.io/demo.mp4) since May 2020. It's basically
| Robinhood for collecting/analyzing/visualizing data from
| internet(Twitter, reddit, yelp etc) in realtime as well as doing
| the same with proprietary data. Quantale provides a modular
| platform that comes with integrated ability to collect data from
| commonly used platforms, analyze data using frequently used ML
| algos and visualize it on aesthetically pleasing dashboards.
|
| Quantale provides end to end data analytics as a service. You can
| checkout some sample dashboard here:
| https://public.quantale.io/dashboards/50778f4a-02bb-4d31-b6e...
|
| Quantale was invited to interview for Y Combinator Winter 2021
| Batch but Michael Seibel wanted to see some more progress before
| backing Quantale.
|
| I am looking for a co-founder who is interested in making data
| analytics accessible to everyone. Contact me(email on profile)
| for the same or for any suggestions on my project or just to say
| Hi.
| Gys wrote:
| Hey HN!
|
| I offer Speed-Networking-As-A-Service. The networking events are
| automated and can be standalone or part of (for example)
| webinars. I made this because to support online events after my
| in-person events were not allowed anymore.
|
| I have a few regular customers but want to focus on the tech and
| am looking for a sales/marketing person to get things growing.
| You can contact me through the website. I am Dutch and based in
| Portugal (in case that is relevant).
|
| https://fringenetworking.com
| nafey wrote:
| I am working on a platform to make, run and share microservices.
| Want a co-founder who can focus on marketing and strategy. The
| person needs to have a good understand of PaaS space, serverless
| and (preferably) based out of India. Drop me a mail at ynafey at
| gmail if interested.
| humanperson_CTO wrote:
| I'm not strictly looking for a cofounder, but I'm interested in
| doing a startup with other folks. I have been working on a bunch
| of different things for a while with limited success. I have good
| leadership and technical skills, but I'm bad at sales,
| fundraising, and not so good at coming up with product ideas for
| things people want to pay for. I'd be interested in joining
| another startup as CTO depending on the situation.
|
| Check out my GitHub profile to learn about my work:
| https://github.com/brndnmtthws
|
| I was a (somewhat) early Airbnb employee if that makes a
| difference.
|
| Shoot me an email if you want to chat: hn@brenden.brndn.io
| Jay_CanCan wrote:
| Hi! My name is Jay, and I am from Canada. I founded a company
| called Hepple. Hepple is an upcoming online marketplace where
| people can showcase and offer their services to businesses or
| consumers. Our goal is to connect consumers to vetted and
| background checked professionals that can fulfill the services
| they require. We are currently in the ideation stage with a
| website MVP being built and were looking for a co-founder with a
| technical\software background. If you would like to chat more
| please feel to email me at admin@gohepple.com
| raphaelj wrote:
| Hola,
|
| I just launched https://noisycamp.com, an AirBnb for Musicians.
|
| I'm trying to make it easier for music studio owners and
| musicians to reserve, pay and manage their practice spaces.
|
| I just released the first version of the web app, and I'm
| starting to reach studio owners to create a base inventory of
| studios.
|
| I'm looking for someone with strong sales and product skills,
| able to help me developing the business side of the project.
| dyeje wrote:
| This is a cool idea. I searched a few major cities and didn't
| get any results though.
| raphaelj wrote:
| Thanks. I just launched the project last weekend. I'll start
| reaching studios in the next few days.
| trjordan wrote:
| Always, a little bit?
|
| I've founded one startup and sold it, and I've been part of 2
| others that got sold. I'm currently enjoying being a PM at Slack,
| but at some point that'll get old and I'll want to do another
| startup. B2B SaaS is my jam.
|
| I'm technical enough to build as necessary, but I'd prefer to
| focus on the go-to-market side. I'm always up for talking to
| folks who are thinking about it. I've got a history of working on
| developer tools, but anything analytical is interesting.
|
| Twitter is in my profile, DM me and let's have a Zoom?
| bsirkia wrote:
| Been building https://zoomingle.com over the last few months,
| it's a group video chat service that automatically creates
| randomized breakout rooms to facilitate 1:1's and other small
| group chats within a larger group. Came up with it because happy
| hours during Covid had no side conversations, spontaneous chats,
| etc. and figured that's the whole point. It's somewhat do-able
| with Zoom's breakout rooms, but if you have a company of 60
| people and what people to be able to chat in random groups of 3
| for 5 minutes for an hour, the person manually creating all these
| breakout rooms would go insane.
|
| I'd like to continue running the tech/product side, but looking
| for a CEO/co-founder to run the biz dev, strategy, marketing etc.
|
| I'm Brian, a 30 y/o Canadian living in NYC (but totally happy to
| work with someone remotely, ofc). I've co-founded and ran the
| engineering teams of two other tech startups, and currently doing
| misc tech consulting and freelancing.
| thaufeki wrote:
| Think this is a great idea, quick q:
|
| is this an entirely separate platform, or an integration to
| Zoom?
|
| I think everyone has experienced the awkwardness of being in a
| company "party" this season, say one word and you're put in
| center stage for 60 people, really discourages participation.
|
| I wonder how "natural" you could make the mingle, like if
| you're in one group and see three people chatting in another
| bubble (I'm envisioning a panel with all sub-groups in separate
| bubbles), can you move over non-chalantly? (Don't know why this
| came to mind immediately, I'm just imagining being trapped in a
| conversation at a party being 10X worse if there's no way to
| leave the bubble without everyone immediately noticing lol)
| bsirkia wrote:
| Right now an entirely separate platform, but the original
| idea was an integration with Zoom. Unfortunately their API
| doesn't support breakout room management yet
| (https://devforum.zoom.us/t/breakout-rooms-api/4255/111) so
| the idea was to build it entirely separately, get some
| validation/learnings, and then integrate with Zoom when
| ready.
|
| In terms of mingle-naturalness, right now it's set so the
| organizer just says how big the mingles should be and how
| long they should last. So from a user's side, you're in a
| group with two random people (from the company/larger group)
| for 5 minutes, then cycle into a new mingle with two other
| random people, rinse and repeat. Somewhat like speed dating,
| you don't have any say over who you're mingling with, but it
| is time constricted.
| digihealthify wrote:
| Hi ya'll. Health nut here. Specifically within the realm of
| digital therapeutics (think using wearables to produce better
| clinical outcomes). I've built a couple platforms for a "device
| agnostic health monitoring tool" and am currently working with
| the Quantified Self community - looking for help pivoting into a
| world that has revenue model potential.
|
| I'm an engineer-minded sales person looking for a SME within the
| healthcare industry. Are you familiar with health insurance,
| medicine, clinical trials, reimbursements, CPT codes, ICD codes,
| etc? Let's talk !
| leesalminen wrote:
| My first venture gingrapp.com was recently acquired (good kind)
| and am looking for a new adventure.
|
| curbd.app is a MVP product I've been messing around with. Not
| sure if it's got legs, though.
|
| Also have this concept app that's the anti-Amazon app. It's an
| app that lists all local stores inventory/pricing that consumers
| can use to one stop shop brick and mortar. Haven't built that MVP
| yet.
|
| If you can't tell, my passion is helping SMB owners compete with
| the bigger players. If this is your passion too, I would love to
| talk.
|
| My info is in my profile.
| foreigner wrote:
| I've recently started working on a similar mission:
| https://giverrang.com
| rmac wrote:
| the anti-amazon thing has legs, but the angle of attack to get
| beachhead might be difficult. Open problems:
|
| 1) fake review/counterfeit problem 2) support mom and pop
|
| Google Shopping is trying to go after the "amazon prime for the
| rest of the internet", which seems like a good idea.
|
| On 2), One thing to do would be to do what doordash did, just
| go to 50 mom and pop retail stores in one region and talk to
| them. see what their problems actually are.
|
| The fake review/counterfeit goods problem is actually pretty
| hard to solve, but it's interesting because it's not on
| amazon's top 3 problems list, so you could disintermediate.
| Ways to solve it that may be businesses: machine learning,
| limiting manufacture geo's, relying on video product reviews
| with trusted influencers, tracking PE acquisitions as a proxy
| for brand deterioration, reading negative reviews first, etc.
| leesalminen wrote:
| I agree with your assessment and that's basically where I'm
| at with the idea. There's absolutely _something_ there, but
| gaining traction is going to require _significant_ effort
| (money?).
|
| Re: talking to users first - 100%! I am fairly active in my
| community and talk with local business owners all the time.
| This is where I got the idea in the first place ;). Agreed
| though that doing this formally and generating some user
| stories before any development could help focus MVP.
|
| Negative review is definitely a big problem and I'm not an
| expert on that topic, at all ;). If such an app were to have
| a review system it would be imperative to ensure the trust-
| worthiness of reviews shown to users.
|
| Though, I'm not sure you would need reviews at first, at all.
| I generally trust most of what I buy from a given shop X... I
| trust their purchasing and supply chain departments to have
| done the research for me. I never think twice about buying X
| electronic from Target, for example, wondering if that night
| light for my son's room is going to combust. One of the
| benefits of brick and mortar, I suppose.
| rmac wrote:
| Why do you need money? Go to 50 stores, interview
| managers/owners. If there's a trend in their pain and you
| can solve it with software or sweat, build it as simply as
| possible.
|
| Doordash put up menus on a website and started delivering
| orders by hand.
| leesalminen wrote:
| That's easy and free, sure.
|
| I guess I was alluding to the needed(?) network effect
| for such an app to become popular with consumers.
|
| For me to have this app on my phone as a consumer it
| would have to have 80% of the local shops I frequent
| listed.
| rmac wrote:
| how do you know it's 80%? have you spoken with other
| local buyers? Maybe the floor is something like 20%?
|
| let's say it is 80, can you imagine a way to get 80% of
| the supply (stores) onto this platform? Or, could you
| chart a path to get to x% supply after y weeks?
|
| idea 1: fake it, just list stores and items on a website
| and find out a way to get users to see it without paying
| for ads
|
| idea 2: sign stores up one by one, using some interview-
| derived value proposition, and get your friends to help
| onboarding new stores, challenge them to sign up x% more
| stores per week
|
| idea 3: post about it on hn :(
| leesalminen wrote:
| These are all great ideas, appreciate it. It could very
| well be 20 and I'm the outlier. And could definitely use
| the fake it til you make it approach for such an app.
|
| I think this all warrants more investigation!
| lima wrote:
| > _Also have this concept app that's the anti-Amazon app. It's
| an app that lists all local stores inventory /pricing that
| consumers can use to one stop shop brick and mortar. Haven't
| built that MVP yet._
|
| This has been tried many times here in Germany with little
| success :(
| rmac wrote:
| what were the reasons it didn't work in Germany?
| leesalminen wrote:
| Yes, I've seen many variants tried. It's so funny, because
| whenever I talk to brick and mortar SMB they tell me they
| want it _so_ bad with regularity. Perhaps there's just not
| enough hunger on the consumer side?
| CubsFan1060 wrote:
| I can't speak for everyone, but as someone who tries to buy
| local, I wish that existed. There's a few stores that have
| reasonable web stores, but most have a single web page that
| was updated in 2017.
|
| Also helpful would be a browser plugin (or something) that
| would allow me to find the product on Amazon and see if
| it's available locally. I do this with books all the time
| (find on Amazon, find the ISBN number, and the go put it
| into the local bookstore website). The local bookstore also
| does local deliveries.
| leesalminen wrote:
| I also enjoy supporting my local shops, but detest
| browsing 5 websites in an attempt to see if they have
| what I'm looking for. Usually their website site is awful
| and I have to call. That's usually when I give up and buy
| on Amazon.
|
| I like the idea of doing it as a browser extension,
| definitely useful to nudge people out of their naughty
| Amazon habit ;).
|
| Thanks for the input!
| ISL wrote:
| How would you prevent the Mom-and-Pop business from,
| eventually, becoming essentially a franchisee of the Not-
| Amazon system?
|
| If you list everyone's inventory with one-click ordering
| (assuming that order fulfillment is solved somehow), it is
| going to be an immediate race to the bottom on pricing,
| perhaps accelerated by arbitrageurs. Consumers will
| initially be happy, until service suffers, but vendors will
| be hit hard on margins.
|
| One niche where I could see such an app succeeding: less-
| urban areas. In the past year or so, Amazon has neglected
| my parents' market in the college town of Blacksburg VA. My
| Dad broke his computer mouse over the weekend; while I
| could get one in hours via Amazon here in Seattle, the
| earliest delivery Amazon offered via Prime on Monday was
| Friday, with no option to pay more for faster delivery. I
| guarantee that there are hundreds of computer mice in
| existing store inventory within an hour's drive.
| leesalminen wrote:
| I don't think the app would do fulfillment in a
| traditional sense. Consumers would go to the brick and
| mortar and pay for / collect their item. Maybe there's a
| DoorDash type deal where drivers can collect the item
| from the store and deliver to the consumer. Doordash for
| consumer goods?
|
| Interesting point on rural areas- I'm also in the same
| boat. Amazon only delivers USPS, and any package that
| won't fit in my mailbox has to be collected at the post
| office 10+ miles away. It always adds a day of transit
| and a drive. There are times where I would pay for same
| day delivery. There are times where I wouldn't mind
| driving to shop X in town and picking it up myself.
|
| Thanks for the input!
| francoisp wrote:
| I think Amazon and covid (semi and full lockdowns, local
| shops closing etc) have exposed an idea that you touch
| on, decoupling the last mile shipping from
| amazon/doordash/etc; a market/depots/etc for peered-
| powered distributed shipping/delivery. I would guess the
| bulk cost of shipping is the fist and last few miles.
| rmac wrote:
| An analog would be doordash & restaurants, with the added
| difficulty being brick and mortar retail often don't have
| great inventory and cataloging. Most restaurants were
| already doing take out, so hooking that up to a logistics
| machine (doordash), was easy. Here you need to go in and
| get stores to take photos of inventory and track said
| inventory, THEN hook them up to a logistics machine.
| doable for sure.
|
| This race-to-the-bottom rhetoric seems like a pessimistic
| view blocking actual opportunity; as we've seen with any
| marketplace (e.g., amazon, doordash, walmart, shopify)
| it's a balance...
| leesalminen wrote:
| You're spot on.
|
| I had 2 ideas to try and overcome the poor inventory
| system problem::
|
| - at first, SMB would manually input their inventory into
| the app, kind of like an eBay listing. Eventually, we'd
| build integrations to common POS.
|
| - alternatively, you could allow consumers to select a
| category+text box entry of what they're looking for. When
| submitted, businesses listed in that category would get
| pinged. If they have what the customer wants they could
| click to let them know. Perhaps with 2 way messaging.
| notahacker wrote:
| Second option looks the more scalable solution. Solves
| the 'why should I bother inputting all my inventory into
| this new website' and allows you to handle the problem of
| not having any inventory to show for a real time search
| or even any shop partners yet. Have seen this done
| successfully (including acquired companies) for quotes
| for services markets.
| leesalminen wrote:
| I think it could work and is superior to manual entry.
| But when I mention it to my local SMB they mostly scoff.
| Maybe just too small of a sample size.
|
| Thanks for the input though! Encouraging to hear this has
| worked for others before.
| halfmatthalfcat wrote:
| Working on Couchmate (https://couchmate.com), a cross between TV
| Guide and Discord/Slack for a long time.
|
| Trying to solve the problem of discovery and real-time
| communication for the live TV community in a fun and interesting
| way.
|
| Currently on iOS and Android. Built on React-Native (Typescript)
| using Scala/Akka on the backend.
|
| Looking for someone in marketing to own user acquisition, social
| media strategy, influencer outreach (podcasting primarily), etc.
|
| Also open to a co-technical cofounder with either extensive
| RN/Typescript or Scala/Akka (cluster, persistence, etc)
| experience.
|
| Contact details in my profile if interested.
| alexcoleman6 wrote:
| I'm Alex, I'm currently building Infra Works. We make it easy for
| skilled trade businesses to find, vet, and develop great
| employees.
|
| Most skilled trade businesses (HVAC, electricians, plumbers) are
| bad at recruiting and training employees. More than half don't
| have training programs. 3 out of 4 don't find the internet to be
| an effective way to find skilled talent. Here is what the
| hiring/training process at a company I spoke with looks like:
|
| - Post job on craigslist
|
| - Hope candidate has some experience or mechanical aptitude
|
| - Rely on one of their more experienced employees to teach new
| employees everything while on-the-job
|
| Every business owner I've spoken with has listed difficulty in
| finding skilled talent as their biggest problem. Our web platform
| gives businesses access to pre-screened talent and enables them
| to easily build a world-class, internal training program.
|
| I previously led product/bd at LendEDU (YC W16). I'm a self-
| taught programmer with a strong background in SEO and sales. I'm
| looking for a co-founder with a technical background to help me
| build out our platform and/or a sales/bd/product background to
| help me develop strategy/GTM. If you have neither, but are
| interested in solving this problem - I'd love to talk to you as
| well.
|
| alex at infraschool dot co
| cwperkins wrote:
| I started a project during the lockdown in March and eventually
| want to launch and make it a self-sustaining side project. I
| recently filed paperwork to form an LLC (my first) in
| anticipation of launching and perhaps trying my hand at
| fundraising on Kickstarter or elsewhere.
|
| The project is called Learn with Grok
| (https://github.com/GrokApp/learn-with-grok) and is a language
| learning application. Unlike existing applications, Grok is
| focused on people who have already studied a foreign language for
| years and are past beginner level content. Learn with Grok is
| focused on Critical Reading Skills and will tailor short story
| content to you at your proficiency level after taking a placement
| test. The more you read and do well on the quiz at the end of the
| short story, the more difficult content you can work towards to
| achieve mastery (or Grok!) a new language. You can hear what
| sentences sound like and see a translation on the spot if you
| struggle comprehending a sentence. Challenge yourself with a
| little content everyday.
|
| This project is pre-launch and my first real try at creating a
| business. I work full-time and work on this nights and weekends
| while also balancing a machine learning grad program.
| nick_g wrote:
| It appears as though the repository that you've linked is
| private
| dgellow wrote:
| Your linked repository does not exist (or isn't public).
| cwperkins wrote:
| Thanks! I changed the visibility to make the repo public.
| kontxt wrote:
| Hello HN! I'm Dave. I've worked on https://kontxt.io for a few
| years. Kontxt's a multi-purpose online communication and
| engagement tool for 1.) ENTERPRISE productivity, 2.) interactive
| and remote EDUCATION, 3.) expandable native AD platform for
| digital publishers, and 4.) a SOCIAL network to share the best
| parts of the web. There's a different business model for each
| solution.
|
| I've built out the product. I'm looking for a partner with
| notable business and sales experience in at least one of these
| categories: enterprise, education, digital publishing and
| advertising, or social. I know HN is a tech community, but if you
| know anyone who'd be interested, I'd love to chat and see where
| the future takes us. Feel free to contact me at dbodin@kontxt.io.
|
| Hope the new year is off to a positive start for everyone! :)
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| steven123 wrote:
| I'm looking for a co-founder to start an ambitious space hardware
| startup. Looking for a technical co-founder with experience
| building space hardware.
|
| About me:
|
| I'm Steven and I've been in the tech industry since 2007. I've
| been a software engineer since 2010. For the last 6 years, I did
| the whole digital nomad thing and worked remotely for most of
| that time. It's been one hell of a ride.
|
| I'm ready for the next chapter of my life. I want to head back to
| California (where I'm originally from) to start a very ambitious
| aerospace hardware startup. Yes, no software for me ideally.
|
| Contact in profile.
| mrdobelina wrote:
| I'm looking for a co-founder/iOS Developer/vinyl record lover to
| continue working with me on https://www.discofm.co --
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/disco-fm-vinyl-audio-preview/i...
|
| It's an app for vinyl record lovers currently live in the App
| Store with over 3000 downloads, daily usage and downloads and
| that has been featured in many music related websites such as
| Resident Advisor, Dj Mag, Mix Mag and many others.
|
| Currently the use case is limited, but I've been working on new
| features and ideas that I'd be interested in discussing with a
| potential co-founder.
|
| The vinyl record market is bigger than it seems
| (https://www.businessinsider.com/americans-spending-vinyl-rec...
| -- sales in this article are based only on US and without all the
| used market, which is huge) and currently the only player in the
| game is https://www.discogs.com
|
| If you're interested, or know anyone who might be, contact me at
| filippo@discofm.co
| moralestapia wrote:
| Sent an email :D
| rmelhem wrote:
| thats really cool. I'd like to help somehow, being a volunteer
| if needed.
| harlanji wrote:
| I've a portfolio of tech demos that I'd like to monetize, or use
| as a stepping stone to offer services. I've tech lead and public
| speaking experience. I've been mostly bootstrap and gov
| innovation for most of my career.
|
| https://archive.harlanji.com/2019-08-26-demos/
|
| I picture holding something like 5% equity of a B2B SaaS/on-prem
| based company and exiting around Series B with a team of
| successors after some years.
|
| I'm located in San Francisco, can commute and maybe relocate to
| Santa Clara or Cruz or East Bay.
|
| My IT situation is weak so contact will seem flaky... I'm working
| on it.
|
| Biz@harlanji.com
| kcorbitt wrote:
| Hey HN,
|
| For the last couple of months we've actually been working on a
| co-founder matching tool through Startup School. It's still an
| early alpha, but some members of our community have already found
| it very helpful. We've taken inspiration from online dating sites
| for some of the mechanics, but of course adapted the questions to
| expose the factors that we've found are most useful in a co-
| founder search.
|
| If you'd like to give the service a try, create a profile on
| startupschool.org (it doesn't matter whether you choose the
| "active founder" or "future founder" track for this purpose) and
| then visit
| https://www.startupschool.org/cofounder_matching_profile
|
| Feel free to check it out! If you have any user feedback, you can
| let me know directly at kyle@ycombinator.com
| thaumaturgy wrote:
| Alright, how about an honest-to-goodness new search engine?
|
| I've been working on this piecemeal for a while. I want a
| completely new alternative in the search space. I think a lot of
| other people do too. I want to focus on highly personalized
| results from personal data sets: ingest people's bookmarks, crawl
| them, crawl their second-order links, and so on. I want
| discussions from HN, Reddit, and other publicly-accessible,
| heavily-moderated, active sites to frequently appear in search
| results. I want search results to be rendered in a modern,
| interactive interface that makes lists-of-links feel like 2010.
|
| I resolutely do not want advertising revenue. For early stages at
| least, I'd like to keep it subscription-only. I know that is a
| big, big limiting factor to growth. I think there could be some
| other opportunities for revenue that don't require bending over
| for advertising. I could be open to other suggestions too.
|
| I've got some approaches to try for ranking, I have most of a
| crawler, I've compiled lists of openly available datasets and
| shortcuts, a start on the frontend and backend, and great piles
| of notes and pieces from past experiments. I'm absolutely certain
| this is doable for a very small team.
|
| I don't have any of the business side. I don't have any
| connections. I'm mostly pleasant and easy to get along with, and
| I can comfortably handle groups of technical or non-technical
| people. But, I have no idea how to find and make the kind of
| relationships that could get this built much faster, and even
| posting this here makes me awkward and uncomfortable. Maybe this
| is a good year for breaking bad old habits.
|
| I'm currently doing freelance work at middling rates, living
| cheaply, and slowly chipping away at this project. I'd love to be
| able to work on it full time. I'm pretty sure I can build the
| entire stack, end-to-end, to MVP in about a year.
|
| I'd really like to meet a good partner for the business side of
| things. Someone with strong ethics, that gets incensed when
| trying to find anything in Google or DDG, that sees value in
| building a whole new dataset rather than putting a new frontend
| on Bing, and can come up with the resources to accelerate the
| project. I'd be willing to consider YC if you think you can tip
| the odds in our favor. I don't have anything that would prevent
| me from committing to YC this year. But, again: no advertising.
|
| Email in profile. I can receive mail pretty reliably, but
| replying to Gmail-owned infrastructure has been hit and miss
| recently.
| Volrath89 wrote:
| looks promising, good luck
| jamil7 wrote:
| I'm not the person for this but the description of this project
| and your vision for it is extremely reminisent of an ongoing
| project of a good friend of mine. So much so that I had to
| double check your profile. He's also been chipping away at this
| for as long as I've known him. I will pass on your details.
| mmmateo wrote:
| That sounds amazing, best of luck. I've always wondered why "a
| billion search results" is considered valuable when nobody
| looks past the first page of google.
| riantogo wrote:
| I'm the maker of https://discoflip.com where anyone can start a
| quick forum. My skills are on Product side of things. I'm
| realizing that growing a user base is extremely challenging for
| me. The project might benefit with someone in expertise in that
| area.
|
| You can contact me on twitter @riantogo or email me heyriantogo
| at gmail.
| nifc777 wrote:
| - price comparison website - mvp already running - 5 countries -
| 7M products - profiles, groups, posts... - 200+ companies - basic
| seach inplemented, parameters search ...and lot of ideas to
| implement/discuss... - php, go, python...
|
| Somebody with UX/UI skill and/or sale skill. It is no mini saas
| or small website. Somebody with real interest... i already
| invested several months.
|
| nifc770@protonmail.com
| samtimalsina wrote:
| I've been doing some research and daydreaming about building a VR
| product that is both software and hardware. Think Microsoft
| Flight Simulator, but for driving, in VR. I want to simulate real
| world driving experience as closely as possible.
|
| The idea first came to me when I was driving around in Hawaii
| along the coast a few years ago. The views were breathtaking. I
| had watched videos of the drive before, but nothing compared to
| the real thing, not even close. That's when I thought, maybe we
| can generate the driving experience in VR.
|
| Think about it. You are not moving anywhere relative to the car
| when you are driving. If we can build a car that can simulate
| inertia, acceleration, bumps on the road, the rumble of the car
| etc., we can almost fool our brains it's the real thing.
|
| The software sides of things is "easier" IMO, as far as being
| technically possible. I want to do what MSFS has accomplished. I
| want to be able to drive around anywhere in the world.
|
| I am looking for likeminded folks to see if this thing can be
| built.
| eg312 wrote:
| I'm working on an app to create custom notebook layouts by drag-
| and-drop graphical widgets with the option to print on demand the
| result: https://notebookeditor.com/
|
| I have a lot of ideas on how to improve it and I think there are
| many use cases, especially for creating custom educational
| materials. But I haven't found the product market fit until now
| and I don't have a clear plan on how to monetise it.
|
| The 'front-end' product is 80% done but there is no 'back-end'
| yet - I'm still thinking if I should do it as saas or a
| standalone desktop/mobile app.
|
| If interested, contact me at: alex @ myhnusername .com
|
| PS. some of the images I used on the website are copyrighted and
| I didn't ask for permission or give credit. Sorry! I'll fix it
| asap.
| pashabitz wrote:
| great idea!
| nickelcitymario wrote:
| This is fantastic. I'm not applying for the co-founder role,
| but I've added myself to the mailing list. Brilliant idea.
| omnimus wrote:
| If you want similar thing instantly ive used
| https://www.trulymine.ink/ in the past. They are pretty but
| over time i've realized that "one usecase" notebooks are
| enough for me.
| eg312 wrote:
| Thank you! Unfortunately that mailing list if full of random
| emails from people who thought they need an account to access
| the app.
| nickelcitymario wrote:
| For what it's worth, I'd do it as a SaaS. 100%. Free to
| generate PDFs. Pay to print. Take a cut from each printing
| job, but outsource the printing and distribution.
|
| I suspect you won't find a single mass market for this. The
| mass market is well served by generically designed notebooks.
|
| Instead, you'll find a number of highly profitable niche
| markets. (Like the D&D crowd, the design crowd, the hacker
| crowd, STEM teachers, etc.) Judging by your homepage, it
| seems you're already on this track.
|
| Because of this, your best bet (once developed or at least in
| early testing) might be to find a few brand ambassadors from
| each of those niches: a dedicated gamer, a well-known
| designer, etc. People who can introduce your product into
| their respective niches.
|
| I'd also make sure the print quality is on par with Field
| Notes or Moleskin, to make sure you can command a good price.
|
| Apologies for the unsolicited advice... just really into this
| idea.
| eg312 wrote:
| Great advice!
|
| The printing quality & shipping will be a problem and I was
| thinking to offer the print on demand just as a 'secondary'
| option, not a feature.
|
| Probably it would be more profitable to create custom
| widgets and designs for companies or exporting the layouts
| as standalone, mini-apps - something like an UI/app editor
| (what you see is what you get) - that are also printable :)
| nickelcitymario wrote:
| > Probably it would be more profitable to create custom
| widgets and designs for companies or exporting the
| layouts as standalone, mini-apps - something like an
| UI/app editor (what you see is what you get) - that are
| also printable :)
|
| So under this model, you'd be banking on printers to pay
| for the software? I could be wrong but I think that would
| be a mistake. I've worked with a lot of printers and I've
| never met one that felt like they needed innovation.
| Printing is an industry that begrudgingly accepts
| innovation when it's forced upon them.
|
| On the consumer end of things, I suspect you'll struggle
| to get people to pay much for the use of the software
| itself. Many people might simply take inspiration from
| your work, then do it themselves if they're going to
| print it themselves anyway. But they would likely pay a
| premium for on-demand printing.
|
| All that being said, I could be projecting. The aspect of
| this product that I would personally pay for is the
| ability to have my custom designed notebook printed and
| shipped to me. That's very valuable to me as a notebook
| lover. If I print it myself, the quality will suck. If I
| design it myself, it'll suck.
|
| But if I can use your app to drag and drop beautifully-
| designed components and then have it magically appear at
| my door? Take my money, please.
|
| That's my 2 cents, anyway. Good luck! I hope you find
| wild success with this no matter what direction you take,
| because the idea is that good IMHO.
| eg312 wrote:
| I'm not targeting printers and I don't want to depend on
| them. If a user wants to print on demand his notebook,
| there will be that option (if possible).
|
| Also, I'm not targeting consumers. Since the engine is
| already opensource, I don't have a problem making the
| whole app open.
|
| "I would personally pay for is the ability to have my
| custom designed notebook printed and shipped to me" -> I
| think the core feature is how easily you can design your
| custom notebook. There are already p-o-d services and you
| can just use Photoshop or Word for editing. But they are
| too complex.
|
| What I was trying to say is that, maybe, some companies
| would pay for custom widgets that hook to a db and
| display nice graphs & tables to quickly create business
| reports. But I don't think those companies care about
| p-o-d because they already have their own providers.
|
| So far, the business model is: free everything except for
| the cloud storage (if any) and premium widgets & layouts.
| I would not add a premium over the p-o-d price since I
| have no control over the quality and I would offer it as
| a 'bonus', like an option to link the app to a 3rd party
| printer of your choice.
|
| Anyway, thanks for the input, it really helped me! If you
| want to keep in touch, let me know.
| nickelcitymario wrote:
| > maybe, some companies would pay for custom widgets that
| hook to a db and display nice graphs & tables to quickly
| create business reports.
|
| That's an interesting angle. I have no sense whatsoever
| about the demand for it, but I wouldn't be surprised if
| there's a sizeable market for that idea.
|
| > If you want to keep in touch, let me know.
|
| I'd love to be kept in the loop for any updates. If the
| email list on your site isn't the best list, please add
| me. My email is my HN username @ google's email platform.
| more_corn wrote:
| Our group might be able help create product prototypes so you can
| maintain momentum while you are seeking a cofounder.
|
| We are a new company offering rapid prototyping services for
| startups. We are a group of close-knit veterans of silicon valley
| (Metaphorically speaking!). We are results oriented with a goal
| of shipping early and often while planning for scale.
|
| https://www.startup.dev Let us know if we can help!
| TenJack wrote:
| I'm the founder of Bookmark OS, an all-in-one organizational tool
| - https://bookmarkos.com
|
| Planning on a B2B version with cloud document organization
| (connect google docs, Slack, Box, Dropbox, etc) so you can search
| everything in one place.
|
| Anyone interested with b2b SAAS experience contact me on Twitter
| https://twitter.com/DRLynam
| moralestapia wrote:
| sci.app
|
| Sucks that the site is down at the moment, but if you would like
| to help me build a futuristic take on how science could be
| improved drop me an email.
|
| Also, if you like/work on science in general, get in touch,
| there's plenty to do!
| biasdose wrote:
| Looking for mental sparring partner.
|
| I have opinions on what the future looks like. I'd like to hear
| yours and see if there is overlap in our opinion of interesting
| customer segments and problem domains we could tackle together
|
| Professionally, I am in leadership on the business side of a
| AI/ML start up. It's going well but I can't shake the feeling
| that I'm not actually solving any problem. I'm ready to take the
| dive on my own.
|
| I would be interested in partnering with someone that considers
| themselves an Engineer regardless of what that looks like from an
| execution side.
|
| Email is username @ protonmail.com
| bmitte wrote:
| Tech founder from Berlin (Mitte) here! Background both in tech &
| business. Not looking for a cofounder but always happy to meet
| new like-minded folks. Ping me!
| virgil_disgr4ce wrote:
| Swymm.org is an interactive, crowdsourced timeline of all history
| that provides an open platform for discovering, learning from,
| and contributing to humanity's understanding of history.
|
| Swymm has two components: the wiki-like public database of
| history, and a freemium* advanced timeline tool (compare to i.e.
| Aeon Timeline) for writers, planners, law enforcement and more to
| lay out beautiful interactive timelines. (* Pricing model up for
| debate) Unlike Aeon Timeline and all others, Swymm is cloud-
| based, multi-user, shareable, and leverages Swymm's database of
| public history that can be easily imported into your personal
| timelines.
|
| Located in NYC, closed beta, looking for a CTO. I have done all
| the design and development so far but I would like a CTO to take
| over development so I can focus on product and marketing, though
| I expect to also continue contributing to dev. @t3db0t on
| Twitter.
| gwbas1c wrote:
| Do you have an email address? (I don't use Twitter.)
| virgil_disgr4ce wrote:
| Sure--try swymm ~at~ swymm.org or gihaca8398@girtipo.com
| (temp email), trying to avoid spam :)
| granshaw wrote:
| Hi, I'm Suan. My business partner and I are both primarily devs
| and have a few bootstrapped products in the wild. We're looking
| to connect with individuals who have experience in some of
| [sales/marketing, bizdev, product, funding]. Our products are:
|
| https://porterhouse.app - Mac app that sends mass individual
| texts using your own iPhone. Currently get a few signups everyday
| but with very bad churn. We're planning a relaunch next week with
| paid plans, a redesign, and ability to upload recipients via CSV.
|
| Political campaign CRM (no public landing page yet) - Our focus
| is to be modern (the Slack to the HipChats in the space), and
| also make it really easy for political consultants to re-use and
| enrich their data across multiple campaigns and clients. It's
| been used on a senate campaign of a connection and that went
| well. A few features away from trying to sell to the masses.
|
| https://wreckingball.systems - RFID tracking for the construction
| industry. Have the hardware built and awaiting approval from our
| first client.
|
| I can be contacted at yeosuanaik at gmail
| sixQuarks wrote:
| I'm throwing this out there on a whim. I have a neglected web
| property that has a small cult-like following of a few thousand
| members. It's a photo sharing community for a specific subject,
| with a moderator and community ratings and things like that.
|
| I've had plans to take this property and use it as a proof of
| concept for a platform that will enable anyone to create this
| kind of photo sharing community. Kind of like a wordpress for
| photo sharing communities.
|
| I'm currently busy with other projects, but If I can find the
| right person that can take my vision and run with it, I'd be
| willing to throw some serious resources into this.
|
| I'm basically looking for a full-stack developer who can also do
| product development, OR a designer who can handle the product
| development and work with a remote developer.
|
| If you're interested, email me at gregg@webstartup.com and tell
| me a bit about yourself, or reply here for any questions.
| 4thethrillofit wrote:
| I've bootstrapping an ecomm analytics SaaS at
| https://www.sourcemedium.com/. There's already product market fit
| and the company grew to 6-figure ARR since May 2020. Cash-flow
| positive & profitable since day 1. Slated to double again in Q1
| 2021. Goal is to reach $1mil ARR with or without investment.
| There's decent amount of investor interest and growth has only
| been organic word of mouth so far.
|
| The primary needs are someone who can head up R&D (BigQuery, DBT,
| Elixir, Node) and Sales. For the sales side, we need someone with
| extensive inside/outbound sales experience at fast-growing SaaS
| before (+1 if in ecomm space).
|
| Interested? Send me a note at fei@sourcemedium.com
| ryeguy_24 wrote:
| Interesting...Curious, how did you get to product market fit?
| Luck, tactics, strategy?
| 4thethrillofit wrote:
| I've worked on a number of companies in various capacity in
| the past so this time around was much more natural. It's both
| an art and a science, but the most TLDR way I can put it is
| the following:
|
| - Thorough understanding of the problem space and niche -
| Founder-led sales to vet customer segments and gain insights
| into pain points. Figure out what they'd pay for and sell
| them the thing. - Have the ability to take the feedback and
| iterate on the product rapidly.
|
| Rinse and repeat :)
| Ideabile wrote:
| I'm Mauro ( http://linkedin.com/in/ideabile ), and I'm located in
| Amsterdam.
|
| I'm looking for a Designer for a pet building a SaaS solutions to
| integrate design more into development, get in contact with me if
| you want to know more.
|
| I'm also looking to someone to invest part time hours to build
| services that can create passive income together, a sort of
| business pattern of MVPs.
| jetpackjoe wrote:
| I do have a side-project that I would love to finish up and
| monetize. It's a personal budgeting application (think YNAB,
| Every dollar, etc.)
|
| I coded up a proof of concept. It's been neglected for a few
| weeks, but having a partner would definitely be the kick I need
| to continue working on it.
|
| This is definitely side-project territory. I am not looking at
| spending more than 10hrs a week on this until and unless it is
| successfully monetized.
| zip1234 wrote:
| messaged in keybase
| pc86 wrote:
| Budgeting has always been interesting to me. What is your tech
| stack?
| jetpackjoe wrote:
| Elixir/Phoenix
| zoa wrote:
| https://www.zoarobotics.com - robust, low cost robots for
| industrial uses.
|
| Looking for a co-founder comfortable with control engineering +
| as enthusiastic about building a new robotics co. as I am.
|
| London, UK
|
| Contact: thiago{at}zoarobotics.com. Look me up on linkedin for
| details.
| jonas_kgomo wrote:
| I am looking for a co-founder to help scale side-projects with
| experts
|
| http://affordance.app/ https://twitter.com/affordancehq
| p2hari wrote:
| Hi, I am a technical co-founder but more focussed on growth
| marketing and growth hacking. I am looking for interesting
| project I can team up with as an investor. At the same time I am
| also looking at someone on technical side to build a product that
| is a marriage between Kahoot + medium + youtube contact on HN
| SubGenius wrote:
| I'm working on Gurlic and would love to connect with someone who
| wants to build a next-generation community/publications/groups
| platform with focus on decentralization, anonymity and old-school
| hacker ethos.
|
| https://gurlic.com
| nico42 wrote:
| I make an app to learn languages. What's different is that
| learning programs are automatically generated using Machine
| Learning (NLP). This opens up tons of opportunities (both on the
| educational side and on the business side).
|
| * I'm a machine learning scientist and developer
|
| * I'm looking for a person passionate about using technology to
| bring education to the greatest number of people
|
| * I'm in France, Paris
|
| * I'm launching the MVP in a month
|
| * contact: nicolas AT globers DOT co
| nocubicles wrote:
| I'm working on https://develytica.com its a tool for analytics
| based on Github data. Some MVP features are completed at the
| moment. If anybody is interested in this kind of products then
| hit me up.
| k__ wrote:
| I'm not actively searching for one. Especially, since I have the
| feeling I'm not an easy person to work with and finding a co-
| founder that fits would be sheer luck, haha.
|
| But I'm currently planning to build a SaaS product, that I want
| to turn into a company, if it works out.
|
| "Slack for microblogging" or "Twitter for companies", depending
| on the perspective. Making asynchronous company communication
| better.
|
| I'm a self-employed dev consultant and technical writer from
| Germany, who makes most of his money with tech blogging right
| now. I'm more on the bootstrapping side of things and not too big
| fan of VC money.
|
| The co-founder in spe should fill my skill gaps (i.e. being are
| more business focused person, someone like a COO maybe?) but have
| enough overlap that we understand each other. Being a EU citizen
| is also good, I guess.
| artpar wrote:
| Been working https://github.com/daptin/daptin since about 2 years
|
| Goal is to build a opensource headless cms (did a show hn quite
| some time ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17357616 )
|
| Recently built one of the end user product
| https://github.com/daptin/dadadash/ (will do a show hn soon)
|
| Plan is to keep the cms opensource/free and monetize the products
| built on top of it
|
| Located in India (mostly irrelevant imo)
|
| Looking for someone with strong vision/execution on the non-tech
| side. My contact details in repo
| Layvier wrote:
| I'm working on a non profit, collaborative knowledge sharing
| platform for personalised learning. It would be a kind of
| learning map allowing seamless and optimal exploration the
| knowledge space. I'm close to finishing the MVP. I'm based in
| Berlin but willing to move to the US, and I'm looking for a
| cofounder with great communication skills (I would be the CTO).
| Here's my Twitter if you're interested: @olivier_ramier
| pashabitz wrote:
| Looking for a co-founder to do growth, sales and bizdev for a new
| project:
|
| https://less-dev.com - a tool for software engineering teams to
| accelerate development of cloud software components (e.g.
| databases, APIs, batch processes).
|
| The differentiator vs. no-code and low-code tools: enterprise-
| grade features built-in and no loss of control: it's open-source,
| can be run on your own cloud, can always export everything, data
| and code.
|
| I am Pasha, previously technical co-founder at a startup and many
| other roles in software engineering co's. I'm in the Bay Area.
|
| bio: pashabitz on LinkedIn
|
| ping me: pavelbitz at gmail
| mdkess wrote:
| I've been working on FluentCard.com - trying to build a better
| flashcard app for learning to read and write Chinese. The MVP is
| more or less done, and I'm honestly not sure what to do next or
| where to take it. I've been using it for my own studies and it's
| been very effective. If anyone's interested in teaming up on it,
| hit me up.
| axegon_ wrote:
| Alright, I'll bite. Long story-short: I miss google reader beyond
| reason so back in may or so when the wfh was already a norm I
| decided to start building it(along with several other projects in
| parallel as a matter of fact). I have build some of the internals
| but... I haven't been subtle about how much I hate dealing with
| frontend and the modern frontend even more so. So if anyone is
| interested, contact in profile.
| Shicholas wrote:
| Lawyers of HN:
|
| I'm looking for a co-founder for our law firm, NeonLaw.com. We're
| building out a SaaS product, https://www.DeleteYourData.com so
| far with some decent success and plan to scale it this year. I
| also have some MRR with our business offering
| https://www.neonlaw.com/practice-areas/business and some ongoing
| litigation (which I hope to do less and less of).
|
| Ideally, I can work with a privacy-conscious progressive
| attorney.
|
| Interested? Please e-mail me at nick@neonlaw.com.
| ArmorySystem wrote:
| https://armorysystem.com - SaaS asset management for LE. Looking
| for someone to help with Sales/Marketing. Willing to give equity
| for right fit. Reach out - service@armorysystem.com
| skillfulman2 wrote:
| I am working on an iOS application whose goal is to deliver a
| "game show" like experience to peoples doorstep. Think of it as a
| hybrid between HQ trivia and lootcrates. Once a month, people
| will compete in a live action concurrent game show using their
| cell phones. A portion will be phone input related challenges and
| another will be a live action portion recorded via phone using
| the items that were shipped to them. They will not know what
| items they are using and or how they will be used until the night
| of the event.
|
| I have an MVP for the application in TestFlight and have done
| some video work in premiere/after effects to try and create a
| video to be pitched on kickstarter. Just looking for someone who
| is passionate about the idea and thinks they could positively
| contribute.
|
| If this interests you feel free to reply or dm on twitter in bio
| pepicon wrote:
| Hey! I'm Vitor. I wake up with a big smile when I have new
| software to build.
|
| I have been developing software for 15+ years. Usually my biggest
| contributions to projects are:
|
| 1) looking at the "big picture" and deciding the best path to
| solve the business problem at hand; most of the times it means
| combining great, stable and proven open-source software to serve
| as the basis of the project, customizing them here and there.
| Also, simplicity is the ultimate sophistication;
|
| 3) coming up with challenges and creative ways to motivate the
| team, in exchange for $$$ bonus or a day off. I've managed
| internal and external dev teams and budgets of more than +$10M;
|
| 2) coding the bits no one on the team wants to, those that
| requires more thinking and research than coding. I'm best in
| backend coding. I love figuring out and coding great UX, but I
| suck at making things look pretty and sexy. Nowadays I tend to
| use JavaScript or Python, but I still use PHP, .Net (VB, C#,
| ASP), C++ and Java - whatever is the best for the task at hand.
|
| Sometimes I find fun projects on Upwork, you can check some of my
| client's feedback here, as well as the (very) different types of
| projects I've worked on:
| https://www.upwork.com/o/profiles/users/~01ef5120bd178f9fcc/
|
| I've built several small businesses: corporate training, used car
| sales, business intelligence software, car repair shop. I love to
| talk business and marketing.
|
| I'd love to partner with a more business oriented person/team.
| I'm super responsive. Fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
|
| Location: Brazil, GMT+3 Willing to relocate: Yes
| pepicon@gmail.com
| molsongolden wrote:
| Great thread! Hoping we can keep this going in future months as
| it's great to see what everyone is working on.
|
| ---
|
| none yet | sf bay area | ideation | all
|
| ---
|
| _Me:_ Semi-technical generalist with spikes in business,
| finance, & product. Best at 0 -> 1. Lots of business experience
| but able to understand and help out with technical work.
| Currently working at a startup in the fintech space.
|
| _Looking for:_ Working through a few ideas in fintech and
| digital transformation if anyone out there is kicking around
| similar thoughts and wants to chat. Especially interested in
| building API-driven tools that make difficult things possible and
| simple. Magical user experiences, mostly B2B.
|
| Still open to chatting or helping out if you are working on other
| interesting things and need product feedback or help with the
| business side.
|
| I'm up for brainstorming during a quick coffee chat or building a
| longer term relationship if the fit is good: accountability or
| sounding board check-ins, consulting, or co-founding if we really
| hit it off.
|
| _Contact:_ hnfintech@gmail.com
| tobyjsullivan wrote:
| Hi, I'm Toby and I'm trying to build a platform that allows
| people to build SaaS without having to write code.
|
| I started a couple years ago before I'd ever heard of the #nocode
| fad. I simply believed (and still believe) that the next popular
| social network will be built by someone who doesn't know how to
| code. I've become a bit obsessed with trying to figure what a
| platform might look like that makes that possible.
|
| For the curious, here's a rough demo of what I'd built in April.
| https://youtu.be/MV7Eo_18KqA Normally I have a demo server online
| but it runs on a laptop in my living room and my power went out
| this morning.
|
| I can only take this project so far on my own. I'm decent at
| writing code but decidedly terrible at product and design. Having
| someone to hash ideas out with would be incredible.
|
| I'd love to spitball ideas if you're up for a chat. General
| feedback is also always welcome. toby@koala.codes
| andi999 wrote:
| If you cover the middle ground call me, I subscribe (as a
| customer) . What I mean, I know how to code and am (sometimes)
| dreaming about making an SaaS. But even before exploring idea
| space, I feel the whole surrounding infrastructure, like data
| safety, reliable login, payment (big one) and even CSS layouts
| are all a big turn off for me. These things every SaaS must
| have. And is really everybody reinventing the wheel? I would
| probably try to buy it. (not sure if such things exist). This
| seems at least a problem space you need to solve before the no
| code thingy.
| [deleted]
| santamex wrote:
| I worked for many years in the generic API (Active Pharmaceutical
| Ingredients) business in Mexico and just started a company in
| Europe to connect suppliers and clients from Asia/Europe with
| clients in Latin America. I already build a platform to
| organize/automatize all the technical and commercial interchange
| of information and had really great feedback from my prior
| clients, but I just don't want to do it on my own. I am looking
| for anyone who is interested in something really nice to niche!
| Technical (PHP/Laravel, new ideas, commercial background,
| Pharmaceutical background, etc.) and available to destroy an old
| school, booring market! PM me?
| wk0 wrote:
| Where can I contact you?
| usehackernews wrote:
| Hi, I'm Dave.
|
| I'm a product manager that is sick of operations & other PMs
| asking me to write simple SQL queries or create tableau
| dashboards.
|
| I'm creating a tool that translates human text into simple sql
| queries to enable data analysis for everyone without needing to
| learn SQL.
|
| "How many [column name] did we have on [Date]"
|
| This isn't easy, but if done successfully will be extremely
| valuable.
| cphills wrote:
| Really interesting idea. As someone who has been in a data
| analyst role for roughly 9 years and frustrated by the lack of
| effort others have to learn SQL or even a BI tool for reporting
| needs it sounds like an interesting idea. Would be interested
| in learning more about how you are tackling the issue. Career
| background is Marketing & Analytics, but I have been doing
| development work for 6+ (NodeJS,Postgresql,Python) Any
| preferred method to connect?
| gailees wrote:
| If you're looking for a cofounder, tons of top engineers starting
| their next companies are converging on Taiwan to do this ten week
| residency together:
| https://www.facebook.com/davefontenot/posts/1015820666915435...
| zebnyc wrote:
| This sounds amazing. Two questions:
|
| a) How does this work with the new stricter visa entry
| requirements for Taiwan?
| https://www.boca.gov.tw/cp-220-5081-c06dc-2.html
|
| b) Do I need to know Mandarin to be able to communicate with
| other folks?
| gailees wrote:
| The fastest way to know if someone is the right cofounder is to
| 1. Work with them in a high pressure / time boxed environment
| 2. Live with them
|
| This is the perfect environment to do both.
| andi999 wrote:
| Ad 2. Observe that co-founders spouses reaction to the living
| together.
| notoriousarun wrote:
| HN Folks!!
|
| I'm planning to do this AskHN thread monthly.
|
| Also, created a central repository (document) for storing all the
| info.
|
| Everyone, please fill out this form with your info
| https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O0pFRvwvPkXtINcTkFPV...
| dt3ft wrote:
| I'm working on https://pdf2qrcode.com
|
| Looking for a partner who is great at marketing/sales or has
| connections to businesses which can benefit from this SaaS.
|
| I can be reached via support@pdf2qrcode.com
| nugget wrote:
| I'm prototyping a dietary/nutritional counseling platform. My
| background is software development (CS @ MIT) and I was co-
| founder of a startup with a 9 figure acquisition, but am always
| looking for help from ambitious and sharp technical talent (to
| bring in at the co-founder level).
| yasserf wrote:
| Hey I'm Yasser, and I have been working on a meditation/audio
| book platform where users have the ability to select different
| narrators, sounds and languages for any meditation they select.
| It's a community driven project meaning that anyone can
| contribute their own narrations or translations as long as the
| original poster allows it.
|
| The other aspect is live journaling, which means when a user is
| asked something they can reply verbally and it automatically
| records the response.
|
| I'm currently at a stage where the whole web app is pretty much
| complete, will be adding in subscriptions, mobile apps, programs
| and a teachers portal in the upcoming months.
|
| Currently looking for someone to help with marketing and sales.
| Given it's entirely bootstrapped hiring someone is not yet an
| option. Would love any form of advise and discussions on next
| steps and possible collaboration.
|
| The app is live at https://samarambi.com, but still in beta so
| expect some odd behaviour now and then.
|
| PS. Just launched (soft launch) on New Years so content is pretty
| much minimal!
|
| You can contact me on yasser.fadl(@)vlandor.com
| megzh wrote:
| Solo founder of https://fixed.link a URL shortener that got your
| back. Features are MarTech focused, with custom domains,
| analytics, custom link previews, but also fairly consumer
| friendly.
|
| Ideally, looking for someone either exceptionally capable in
| handling the business side of growth (sales, pitches, marketing)
| or on the tech side, familiar with taking Node stacks to the next
| level.
|
| Reach out via HN if you want to talk or have any questions.
| systemvoltage wrote:
| Having worked on a couple of failed relationships, it's also ok
| to be a sole founder. Perhaps the problem is with me, I
| personally like having 100% control over initial formation of the
| company.
| lnsru wrote:
| I guess, a team is much more productive in the early stage. But
| one can't ditch co-founders later when 95% of development work
| is done and the rest 5% are customization for particular
| customer.
| systemvoltage wrote:
| Definitely. Also depends on the type of company you want to
| build. If you want to build something that's going to become
| the next big thing, potentially raising a seed round, its
| better to have a cofounder or two.
| foxhop wrote:
| I'm Russell Ballestrini and searching to bring the right person
| in as a co-founder for my latest project Make Post Sell.
|
| Free entry level digital download e-commerce shops for upstarts
| and small business.
|
| I'm currently bootstrapping and moving to the marketing and sales
| phase of Go-to-market.
|
| The MVP is finished but need to build out the sales funnel and
| pricing.
|
| Currently in need of landing pages for target markets
| (HTML/CSS/copy writing).
|
| Built with Python, Pyramid, SQLAlchemy
|
| Remote USA
|
| Details in my profile on how to connect, feel free to ask
| questions here too.
|
| https://www.makepostsell.com
| zaidazmi wrote:
| - Looking for a tech co-founder for KahaniBox
| (https://kahanibox.com). We create story based games (Similar to
| Bandersnatch/Telltale games) for India and currently average user
| spends 1 hour daily on our stories. Raised $150k last year and
| currently in talks to raise more funds. I envision KahaniBox to
| become the Netflix for interactive fiction by scaling it to 100
| million+ monthly users Looking for someone who can join as co-
| founder and take ownership of technology while I focus on product
| and growth. Located in India, anyone finds it interesting can DM
| on twitter @zaidazmi. Thanks!
| notoriousarun wrote:
| Your Twitter DM is off @zaidazmi
| zaidazmi wrote:
| Fixed it
| Uninen wrote:
| I've been working on a live streaming site for DJs and artists (
| https://slipmat.io ) for past 4 years and the project is now in a
| state where it should probably be incorporated to get it to next
| level.
|
| The current site is a state of the art basic streaming platform
| with a ton of bespoke functionality for artists, and I have lots
| of potential ideas for building new features for more higher end
| segment willing to pay for them (like gig booking and more
| interactive virtual shows).
|
| This project is a very much an open source mindset and during
| last few months we've started to publish our first open source
| packages. My hope would be to be able to make everything
| sustainable as an open source project by the community for the
| community.
|
| I'm looking for someone who could help me either build this
| forward or help with business side of things and raising money
| for building the business itself. I'm capable of handling the
| technical side of things but to get to next level we would need
| more both deep backend and frontend knowledge. I'm located in
| Finland, but everything in this project is set up to be remote
| first and location or timezones should not be a big problem.
|
| Contact: ville @ project domain
| itcrowd wrote:
| Sorry to be of no help, but the platform looks really nice!
| Congrats & lots of success!
| agconti wrote:
| Hey HN!
|
| Andrew here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/agconti/). I'm the
| founder of Reactive Streaming, (https://www.reactive-
| streaming.com), a platform as a service that enables product and
| growth teams to create interactive live experiences through our
| easy to use APIs. We make it easy for you to build a live
| experience by taking care of the foundational live streaming
| technical challenges so you can focus on what differentiates your
| product.
|
| - we have the fastest live video in the market, thanks to our
| propriety live streaming process.
|
| - our interaction services, (a BAAS), lets you create deeply
| engaging visceral experiences with ease.
|
| Want the skinny on what we offer? Here is a video:
| https://www.reactive-streaming.com/product-demo/
|
| I'm located in NYC and I'm looking for a co-founder with deep
| sales and marketing experience. If you're interested, please
| reach out to me on LinkedIn!
| m_ki wrote:
| I'm looking for a business / marketing co-founder -
| https://unicv.io (professional resume builder w linkedin import)
| ~ 90% finished
| JulianRaphael wrote:
| Pinged you an email!
| tunesmith wrote:
| I have an early prototype of a site that allows people to chain
| together reasoning in a visual sense, which also propagates truth
| so that people can know if a conclusion is asserted to be
| valid/proven. This contrasts from the current definition of
| "argument mapping", and platforms like Kialo, in that it's more
| constructive, with logical machinery underpinning it. For
| instance, if someone has a conclusion that "Earth's atmosphere
| should stay below x anthropogenic GTCO2", or "SpaceX will be able
| to reach Mars by 2030", other people can then drill down through
| the argument until they get to simple axiomatic facts and values.
| The idea is that by doing so, people would either educate
| themselves if the argument is valid, or have the opportunity to
| specify exactly where they disagree (which would in turn
| propagate truth/proof state to the therefores that depend on that
| part of the argument), which is a respectful way of engaging with
| and perhaps strengthening the argument. In a social sense this
| could be useful for polarized communities to better understand
| each other over time. In a private sense (revenue opportunity) it
| could help organizations document the reasons behind processes,
| or make collaborative arguments for change that rely on deep
| first-principles reasoning.
|
| This project is a little insane, as it relies on some optimistic
| assumptions about human nature that might just prove to be false
| - at worst, it is an opportunity to deeply explore an idea that
| requires some fun distributed-systems technology. I'm very much a
| tech/backend guy but it could evolve in a direction where I'd
| have to hire phd-level people. Anyway, I have a long list of
| features to develop before I get to real business planning,
| assuming I don't just eventually release it for free wikipedia-
| style, but what I'm mostly looking for now is a small group of
| people that are highly interested in following along (please
| explain your background and why you are interested if you contact
| me). I have a read-only prototype already pushed live, which
| allows exploration of existing arguments/conclusions, so as I
| make releases and update the changelog, I would like people that
| would like to follow along and make comments, and also perhaps
| give free U/UI advice, since there are a lot of challenges there
| in making a "new form of communication" feel intuitive. I'd
| imagine any possible cofounder arrangement would inevitably rise
| from that.
| 0x1F8B wrote:
| Just want to say that this is a wild idea and I really like it.
| I don't know how viable it is but it's definitely interesting.
| tunesmith wrote:
| Thanks. Believe me, I share the uncertainty so I regularly
| have to hold myself back from getting too excited about it.
| It is really fun exploring the tech in the meantime though.
| darkest_ruby wrote:
| Been working in this App (Stock Market Tracker)https://play.googl
| e.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.darkruby...
|
| I'm good at tech, and can lead the development but need non-
| techie person who'd do promotions, raise awareness, etc
| jtchang wrote:
| I have a company that has over 10k teachers and am interested in
| anyone who wants to help drive it forward:
| https://www.go.literatorapp.com/ It consists of a webapp and
| iOS/Android apps that help teachers track student literacy.
| Previously had about 20 or so monthly subscribers but due to
| covid and time haven't been able to keep it up.
| itcrowd wrote:
| How do you have 10k teachers and 20 students? Or am I missing
| something (or a typo)?
| jtchang wrote:
| About 20 paid subscriptions. Have over 100k students. The
| paid subscriptions are from a point where we are starting to
| monetize but everything was hacked together.
| melenaboija wrote:
| I am looking for someone interested on building a quantitative
| finance API based on QuantLib. See where it is now at
| https://quantra.io.
|
| I have been working with it for a couple of years
| discontinuously. This is for a small niche but some people showed
| interest on it during this time.
|
| Looking for someone interested to help on the development and to
| define it. Although is not close to a commercial product I see it
| being used as a SaaS service or as a pricing engine to integrate
| with banking systems.
| jowdones wrote:
| "Quantra is a REST wrapper for QuantLib, the _indrustry_
| -leading library for quantitative finance."
| melenaboija wrote:
| Thanks :)
| catchmilk wrote:
| Hey there, where can one contact you to discuss this further?
| melenaboija wrote:
| Yep sorry, joseprupi at gmail dot com.
|
| Something else, I would like to keep at least part of the
| project as open source, one of the things I have seen in the
| industry is the lack of transparency which makes hard the
| validation of the pricing models.
| AniekePeekabond wrote:
| I'm Anieke Lamers, Amsterdam based and am looking for a technical
| cofounder. If you know anyone who is interested, please share
| this link: https://www.notion.so/Tech-or-Product-oriented-
| cofounder-opp... Also feel free to like/share it on Linkedin:
| https://www.linkedin.com/posts/peekabond_tech-or-product-ori...
| About me: playful, eager, people-oriented hustler with 8+ years
| experience in investing in B2C and impactful tech scaleups.
| Passionate about remote kids bonding
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/aniekelamersnl/ Ask: Hacker/Hipster
| cofounder who is aligned on the company's values (eager, playful,
| ethical).
| datenhorst wrote:
| What exactly does playful mean in this context?
| melenaos wrote:
| Seems like a great idea! Best of luck
| atlasunshrugged wrote:
| Howdy - I may be too early to post here as I'm really more
| interested in a thought partner who has the potential to become a
| cofounder in ~1yr+ if we decide to launch something. My
| background is mainly in sales and growth (early at Gigster, ran a
| venture for Rocket Internet in Berlin, ran a team for the
| Estonian govt's e-Residency project, Fellow for NYC CTO's
| Office).
|
| I'm really interested in tech in the government space. I feel
| like there are many, many problems with government, whether it's
| at the federal level finding wasteful spending, automating audits
| for the IRS, or somehow making the DMV less awful. I've been
| researching ideas and doing due diligence but haven't found
| something killer yet and am looking for a thought partner on the
| eng side of things to bounce ideas around with.
| dmarlow wrote:
| What's a good way to connect?
| fnimick wrote:
| I've been interested for a long time in building digital
| infrastructure / public works software, considering ideas for
| software tools to help communities and cities offer digital
| services to constituents. My personal goal is to better connect
| citizens and their elected leadership and improve civic
| engagement. How best to get in touch?
| roboy wrote:
| Been leading https://www.roboy.org for the last 7 years,
| completed third generation robot in Q4/20, now looking to
| commercialise it. Looking for a BD co-founder. Location: Munich,
| Germany, Approach: Global, Space: Luxury, Tech: Humanoid Robotics
| gpnt wrote:
| I released WDR (Web Data Render) a few days ago here:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25352385 and now I'm working
| on a blog platform around this concept.
|
| I also created an open-source project called Evaluatly
| (https://evaluatly.com) to create dynamic multipage stories.
|
| Co-founder or not, I'd love to chat with anyone interested in
| these projects. gpiresnt at gmail, or DM on twitter on my
| profile.
| ve55 wrote:
| These are great threads to have, but I do worry some
| underestimate the amount of interviewing they should do for a co-
| founder they've just met from here. As a rule of thumb if you
| can't imagine yourself being close friends with this person, it's
| probably not a good idea to have them as a co-founder. It's a
| much more important, long-term, and intimate relationship than a
| simple partnership or internship is. I'd suggest hanging out with
| prospective co-founders exhaustively, including plenty of idle,
| personal, and off-topic conversations before committing, and to
| remember that just like dating, there's a decent chance it may
| not be the perfect fit, so you have to be willing to move on and
| try again if so.
| biasdose wrote:
| Totally. I'm looking for someone to see if they agree in
| different ways and disagree with in the right ways.
|
| How does one create new meaningful intimate relationship in
| >>PANDEMIC<<
| ve55 wrote:
| If I was meeting a co-founder here I'd probably try something
| like video-chatting with them, every day, for a week
| straight. Inevitably you'd end up talking about just about
| everything, and hopefully getting a real feel for how each of
| you are as a person.
| faitswulff wrote:
| I have to agree. Starting a venture with a less-than-compatible
| partner made me realize I would need to do as much emotional
| labor to stay in the game as I would with a romantic life
| partner. To be honest, that really put me off from starting a
| company with anyone I don't already know.
| leesalminen wrote:
| My wife called my first business partner my "work husband".
| We remain close to this day. I think we got extremely lucky
| because we were a great fit for each other as co-founders,
| but we did take almost 6 months of getting to know each other
| before formalizing our arrangement (equity).
| notoriousarun wrote:
| Get hitched when you're sure.
|
| Finding a cofounder is like love: it often happens when you're
| not looking for it. The best thing you can do to improve your
| odds is continue to improve yourself and put yourself out
| there.
| erichanson wrote:
| Hi HN, I'm Eric Hanson, the guy behind the Aquameta project
| (http://aquameta.org). With Aquameta, I'm trying to to break down
| the technical barriers between users and developers by putting
| the development stack in the database (PostgreSQL). Right now
| users edit data, and developers edit code, but with Aquameta,
| everything is data, so it opens up huge new frontier of
| possibilities. We're challenging the assumptions baked into Unix
| that date back to the 60's, that the file system is an acceptable
| way to organize the dev stack. It is not, and once you see the
| inefficiencies that the old paradigm has plagued us with, you can
| never unsee it. They are everywhere. By putting everything in the
| database, we gain a huge multiplier of interoperability and
| reusability, almost for free.
|
| Here's an intro video from a couple of years ago:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0C8AsXNPAU
|
| Aquameta has a functional IDE and is getting very close to a v0.3
| release, the first release that users can easily download and
| install. I have a lot of ideas for how to monetize.
|
| I am foremost a systems engineer, but I very much value biz dev
| as an essential part of bringing something into the world. We're
| mission driven, but missions don't get too far without the
| Benjamins. I'm looking for someone to flesh out the business side
| of things, someone with connections to the investment world, and
| skills in market strategy, sales and marketing. I'm currently in
| San Francisco. Hit me up at eric@aquameta.com.
| rodolphoarruda wrote:
| I vote for making this AskHN monthly recurrent like the ones for
| jobs.
| notoriousarun wrote:
| Don't worry, I'm planning to do this monthly.
|
| Also, created a central repository (document) with all the
| info.
|
| Everyone, please fill out this form with your info
| https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O0pFRvwvPkXtINcTkFPV...
| codingdave wrote:
| That's great, but I believe the benefit of it being part of
| the official monthly posts is that it does not become a pet
| project of one person, but a core part of the community.
| Posting all of our info on a google doc doesn't have quite
| the same community vibe.
| AltonWells wrote:
| If anyone is interested in touching the adventure sports space.
|
| Shoot me a message. of back-end would be
| lukegen wrote:
| Los Angeles, CA
|
| I'm a data science and PM generalist with experience in product,
| finance and market research teams. I have 8 years of experience
| in software, working on data management and business intelligence
| platforms. I've spent the past 3 years in an enterprise SaaS
| company and the problem space has gotten old for me.
|
| I'm especially interested in building data products, AI/ML,
| enterprise software, financial services and/or health & fitness
| services. I recently completed YC's Future Founders course with
| an idea for a data discovery platform. I'm in the customer
| research stage and have not started building yet. I'm open to
| other ideas and missions as well.
|
| I'm an intermediate coder (Python) and have built simple
| applications. I would prefer working with a technical co-founder,
| but open to non-technical co-founders if our interests and skills
| match. I'm willing to code as needed to develop the product. I
| would do well working on the business and PM side.
|
| I'm very collaborative, analytical and pragmatic. Reach out and
| we can chat? lgenung at gmail
| notoriousarun wrote:
| Recent Project https://pipecontent.com
|
| Wanted to evolve this idea into a go-to platform for knowledge
| workers. (A second brain for the content)
|
| Located in India, currently looking for a partner.
|
| Also, wanted to share all my research on various markets,
| opportunities, tools.
|
| That can help us uncover better opportunities together.
|
| Let's connect on Twitter! @notoriousarun
| jdsalaro wrote:
| Your Twitter and Github links in your footer are going to
| https://pipecontent.com/#
| notoriousarun wrote:
| Yes, Thanks for reminding me.
| notoriousarun wrote:
| Also, Email is username @protonmail.com
|
| let's have a Zoom?
| bkmrkr wrote:
| Great work, you should also integrate with pocket. This reminds
| me of https://waldenpond.press/ as well you pricing is better
| though.
| notoriousarun wrote:
| Pocket doesn't support public lists(URL)
|
| We support public URL's (One-tab, Toby, Notion, Google-Docs,
| Twitter-Threads, Evernote, DropBox, Website Links)
| david927 wrote:
| CourtBell : Looking for Non-Technical Co-founder
|
| I'm David and I'm the technical founder of CourtBell which has a
| couple products. One that I'm rolling out now is a national text
| message reminder for court hearings (HearingReminder.com). The
| other, much bigger product, is a specialized tool for BI for
| courts.
|
| I've done the technical work on this and I'm looking for someone
| to handle marketing and sales. My email is in my profile. Looking
| forward to talking to you!
| isaac21259 wrote:
| Hi, I'm Isaac. I've been working on Algebraic for the past
| several months. Algebraic generates detailed text and video
| explanations of math problems for high-school students. I'm still
| in the early stages but it can solve simple equations and I'm
| looking for a rust developer as a co-founder to speed up
| development. I'm located in Wollongong, Australia. I intend on
| making the project AGPL once I have a full working version.
| Contact me @ Isaacbankier@protonmail.com
| hpvic03 wrote:
| It seems like this should be a standard monthly post on the first
| of the month just like Who's Hiring & Who Wants to Be Hired.
| silexia wrote:
| I have had co-founders on businesses and none of them ever
| worked out. It might just be me, but I have a hard time being
| motivated to really go through the hard stuff if I think
| someone else is a backstop or will do it for me.
|
| My business that I started and built entirely alone is by far
| and away the most successful one and has made me a
| multimillionaire.
|
| Whenever anyone asks me, I always recommend people to start a
| business on their own and just grind it out.
| ricksunny wrote:
| https://www.sunnyirrigation.com -Kenya based, post-revenue -roles
| interested in: -Marketing/growth oriented C-level -Software CTO
| for our risk management system
| BrawnLongHaul wrote:
| Looking for a CTO / tech co-founder with Python
| {numpy/pandas/scikit-learn} experience (or equivalent in other
| languages) for Automated Crypto Trading startup.
|
| What I bring to the table:
|
| - DevOps/Cloud Architecture and Security
|
| - Copywriting and Marketing skills
|
| - Basic SEO skills
|
| Email in profile
| epicureanideal wrote:
| This is a great thread, and I hope it is posted repeatedly like
| the "Who is hiring" and "Who wants to be hired" threads.
| gradys wrote:
| I'm a machine learning engineer with a focus on data efficient
| NLP. I want to build tools that make it dramatically easier to
| apply ML (especially NLP) to real world problems like:
|
| - Routing customer support requests - Understanding freeform user
| feedback - Understanding the memetisphere of social media -
| Automating content moderation on social platforms - Bringing
| order to large document archives
|
| I think it's possible to build a code-free, interactive interface
| that enables all of these things (though it may be best to focus
| on a single vertical).
|
| Hit me up if you're interested in any of this. grady.hsimon at
| gmail.
| rcurry wrote:
| I'm working on a site called textmyapi.com (site's not up yet).
| It's a little SaaS platform that allows you to quickly define
| commands that can be sent over text messaging to invoke REST
| APIs. I got the idea when I was out camping and wanted to get
| some stats from an API that I had but I didn't have great
| internet connectivity, so I thought it would be fun to wire up my
| APIs so that I could hit them via text message instead of through
| a web interface.
|
| I'm about 90% code complete with the MVP, would be fun to find
| someone else who is interested in this kind of stuff (preferably
| US based) and might want to help work on expanding the
| functionality or coming up with other interesting things to do
| with it.
|
| Platform is React, Node, PGSQL.
|
| my contact info is: recurry AT outlook DOT com
| pashabitz wrote:
| great idea!
| leesalminen wrote:
| Cool idea. Wishing you the best of luck!
| svilen_dobrev wrote:
| an idea that might be useful.. you may split the outgoing
| channel from incoming channel ; it's usually the
| sending/outgoing that is slow/difficult (small device not able
| to transmit too far, think a phone in a rugged mountain). Some
| satelite-internet providers work this way, using satelite for
| the send direction and some other usual channel for the
| receiving. good luck
| trailrunner46 wrote:
| Cool idea. I played around with something using texting as the
| primary controller for users and I quickly found Twilio quite
| expensive. I stumbled upon SignalWire and it made the cost much
| more manageable for lots of small messages and for lots of
| individual numbers. Just wanted to mention it incase it is
| helpful to you!
| rcurry wrote:
| Thank you, this is good news and would cut my MRR to a fifth
| of what I was looking at with Twilio. Shoot me your email
| address and I'll give you a permanently free account when we
| launch.
| halfeatenpie wrote:
| Interesting!
|
| Out of curiosity, how would this work in regards to the
| character limitations (160 characters I think?) in SMS? What if
| they're large responses? Is there a hard limit on the total
| number of text messages sent per request?
| rcurry wrote:
| I use Twilio for the text messaging, and so they can handle
| up to 1600 characters per outgoing message request, and
| larger responses could also be broken into multiple response
| messages. Users can define LiquidJS templates on the system
| so that you can cut down the size of the response message if
| you only want to see certain fields.
| pchocho wrote:
| Hey all, I'm Peter, and I've been working on YDays
| (https://ydays.com) since August. It's an app for creative
| drawing challenges with friends. I'm seeking a co-founder to join
| me on the journey of building and growing YDays into a vibrant,
| creativity-focused community. We launched in October and have
| 2,600 users so far. I'm a designer who codes, and I'm open to a
| few options for a co-founder: a partner with technical expertise
| in React and backend development, or one who has strong go-to-
| market and community-building expertise. Looking for someone who
| shares my passion for fostering creativity. Let me know if you or
| someone you know might be interested! You can reach me here, or
| by email at peter@ydays.com.
| jsmith21 wrote:
| I'm building a music hosting + streaming solution with web, iOS
| and Android apps.
|
| Currently running a closed beta with 50 ish registered users.
| Looking for a co-founder to help continue development of the
| apps. iOS and/or Android experience would be great!
|
| Located in eastern Canada. If interested, feel free to email me
| at jsmith@hey.com :)
|
| Link here -> http://relar.app
| pietrovismara wrote:
| great idea, something like this (depending on the pricing)
| might be just what I need to quit my music streaming
| subscriptions (youtube, etc) and start streaming my files.
| mrdobelina wrote:
| I'm not a developer, but this looks great! Just curious, how
| does it works for music rights?
|
| Funny enough I'm looking for a developer too for my app about
| vinyl records, posted here too.
| jsmith21 wrote:
| Thanks!! As for music rights, all music is uploaded by users
| :) I'd like to add the ability to purchase or stream music
| but it would take so much work. Your app looks fantastic btw!
| thih9 wrote:
| I like the idea. Random feedback, there's something that makes
| the http://relar.app scroll very laggy in the area over the
| screenshot (Safari, recent Macbook Pro).
| jsmith21 wrote:
| Thanks :) And thank you for the feedback. I'm also on a
| recent MBP and safari and haven't had that issue. I'll try to
| reproduce!
| s314159265358 wrote:
| Hi! I am Shrey, 17, and am looking for a co-founder for my AI and
| education startup. The aim is to 1. Build AI kits for beginners
| and anybody looking for a way to apply machine intelligence
| without having to code or hire a dev. This also includes building
| sensors, collecting data, building a model-zoo 2. Educate
| students about AI and how they can use it 3. Build a browser
| based training interface aimed at creatives.
|
| Feedback appreciated, reach me via mail its.shrey.arora@gmail.com
|
| Keep in mind that this is a very young project.
| leesalminen wrote:
| Hi Shrey,
|
| What a great concept! If I knew more about ML/AI I'd be
| shooting you an email right now.
|
| Keep it up, showing your peers your passion can only lead to
| inspire more people to become technologists.
| javierluraschi wrote:
| Nice project! I'm building something similar but not hardware
| related; instead, I'm trying to make AI accessible to creators
| and small businesses in web/desktop/mobile platforms. I have a
| vlog showing daily progress throughout 2021:
| https://www.youtube.com/user/jluraschi -- If you want to reach
| out, I'm at my jluraschi at gmail.com.
| JimWestergren wrote:
| I have been working on a card game as a side project since mid
| 2018 that in my opinion plays better than Hearthstone and Magic:
| https://thespacewar.com/
|
| Looking for a partner really like these kind of games that can
| take care of the marketing of the game and help push the project
| forward. Also maybe that can do technical work on the online
| browser version (Vue/Node). The online version is playable
| (alpha) and maybe 80% complete, try as guest here
| https://play.thespacewar.com/
|
| Contact me either on Discord https://discord.gg/tv3DXqj or
| info...thespacewar.com if you have any interest at all :)
| dnautics wrote:
| Fyi your site is not working.
| JimWestergren wrote:
| It is up? https://isitup.org/thespacewar.com
|
| Is it down for anyone else?
| dgellow wrote:
| Works for me.
|
| Edit: not anymore.
| absoflutely wrote:
| First request gave me a 500. Second one was fine. Smells
| like some minor configuration error somewhere.
| russian_bot wrote:
| Yeah, I get: "Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to
| undefined function set_cookie() in
| /var/www/thespacewar.com/index.php:58 Stack trace: #0
| {main} thrown in /var/www/thespacewar.com/index.php on line
| 58"
| JimWestergren wrote:
| Omg, fixed thank you so much. Something I had changed
| this morning and not tested correctly ...
| cyberfart wrote:
| > Enter username to play for free directly in your browser
|
| I was so happy after seeing this thinking, "so amazing of them
| to let me check it out without having to register" only to
| discover that it led to a register form :(
| JimWestergren wrote:
| I hear you. You can play it as guest here without registering
| https://play.thespacewar.com/
| gab007 wrote:
| noterbox.com
|
| Personal cloud / data capture and management with user's choice
| of storage.
|
| Stage: proof of concept, with a working demo.
|
| I am a solo technical founder, looking for a co-founder also with
| technical background. I am based in the UK.
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