Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?

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by grep • 16 years ago

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I've noticed that many of you are looking for a technical/business co-founder. Give a description of what you are looking for in a co-founder and for what.

knipknap2• 16 years ago

I'd be looking for

- General intelligence - Enough passion to work long hours - Good at what I'm not. (I can build a product, he/she could have a marketing background or something. Obviously we'd still both be working on both.)

zallarak• 16 years ago

I am interested, how can I contact you? I can give you credentials and details via email if you like. zain.allarakhia at gmail

knipknap2• 16 years ago

Oh, sorry, I didn't see your response until today. I am actually not looking for a cofounder right now. I just misunderstood the submitters question, thinking he was looking for inspiration in what to look for in a co-founder.

peng• 16 years ago

Take a look at this HN co-founder wish list: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgCvDTyBjHdOdDFfMEN...

davidw• 16 years ago

I'm always looking to get to know cool people who may or may not want to work on creating something at some point. I think knowing someone for a while is important though, so I'm not looking to create more than, say, an open source or side project at the time being. I actually have a number of side project type things that I'd be willing to "share"... Stuff like LangPop.com - it's probably not a business, but it's a fun project.

jbrun• 16 years ago

I am. New project, very exciting. Need someone with technical skills and an interest in search. Yes, very vague, contact me to learn more.

known• 16 years ago

http://fairsoftware.net

necrecious• 16 years ago

Looking for a biz dev guy in the Boston area.

Need to be knowledgeable in tech and specialist in customer development or corporate sales.

My company has a SaaS iPhone app that is looking to grow customer base and expand into enterprise market.

tchae2• 16 years ago

hey although I am trying to find a tech co-founder for my startup, nuSage (http://www.nuSage.com) I have a ton of very great friends who would be amazing a biz dev for you out in the Boston area. feel free to contact me maybe we can meet up and i can lead some intros.

Keyframe2• 16 years ago

Out of curiosity, anyone here into/in for a gamedev?

Mz6• 16 years ago

Not sure how to answer your question. I want to write a game. I always assumed I would learn a programming language and write it myself. So far, that hasn't gone anywhere.

raquo• 16 years ago

Writing an average 2d game with a good framework like cocos2d is easier than most applications IMHO, so it could be a good start.

jlees2• 16 years ago

Yes, my next project is most likely going to be a game. Most of my industry experience is on the writing, reviewing and community side, so I want to get my feet wet on the technical :)

Keyframe2• 16 years ago

What kind of writing? I was a story editor and story editor dept. chief for a while for tv shows screenplays, among other things related to it.

DotSauce• 16 years ago

I am looking for a technical co-founder to integrate oAuth / @Anywhere and a couple other key changes to my existing Twitter app. It's written in RoR and housed on GitHub.

Has viral potential! Virtually every Twitter member can relate to this app. Please get in touch via contact form on my personal site with any questions. I would also enjoy viewing your previous work.

elvirs• 16 years ago

I have many good projects, most in idea stage. I am good in user experience / usability, frond end design, business development, strategy, monetization. Looking for a really good coder, who can code and scale entire thing, making all of the features work like charm. i can share simmple description of my projects with you and we can start working on them together if any of those interest my prospective technical cofounder, drop me a line, elvirs AT gmail DOT com

petervandijck2• 16 years ago

"I have many good projects, most in idea stage" -> So you have a lot of ideas, basically?

trizk• 16 years ago

http://presence.co is always looking for good people

dublinclontarf• 16 years ago

Have a project I'm about to embark on, but since I'm in Nanchang China I doubt there is anyone here worth hooking up with (if there is hot damn). So I need a remote/distance co-founder.

Business and design orientated would be nice, I'm awful at PR or most of those types of things, point in case, I've a 5 year old reddit account with Karma thats less than 200.

zkoch• 16 years ago

I'm in Chengdu. Not exactly close to Nanchang, but closer than the Bay Area. Any more details on what the project is?

markbao4• 16 years ago

I'm looking for someone focused on marketing with an interest in family and social networks. The startup is a family sharing/storage app called Genevine http://genevine.com -- almost 100% built and on 2.0 but need a marketing-focused co-founder. mark@markbao.com

bmelton• 16 years ago

I just wanted to say that I clicked over to genevine, and while I honestly don't know if I have even a remote need for this application, I'll almost certainly be using it (and just registered) because it's gorgeous, and very thoughtfully put together.

jacquesm3• 16 years ago

Jason and Mark are pretty awesome at what they do. You can't really go wrong there.

markbao4• 16 years ago

Wow—thank you so much! You just made my day :)

jasonlbaptiste2• 16 years ago

Mark is a genius, awesome guy, and can build a product like nobody's business. Sadly, I've had opportunities I can't pass up come along in the past couple months. Genevine is going to be a hit and I hope someone great can come along to fill this role here. I'll still be heavily advising and involved to a good degree as well.

startupcomment2• 16 years ago

I noticed you are still in high school. Are you planning to do this on the side while you are in high school or college?

markbao4• 16 years ago

I'm in college, but yes, like I've always done.

photon_off• 16 years ago

Mark, I'm pretty impressed with genevine and just want to encourage you to continue with it. The fact that you allow users to get started now and sign up later is really something that I love to see. Personally, I can't stand having to register for something that without seeing an online demo. I hope down the line this leads to more conversions and more success for you.

aneth• 16 years ago

Wow, lots of vagueness here. I'll try to be concrete.

I'm looking for someone who amazes me with their insights in the areas of my relative weakness. That includes design, user experience, sales, marketing, and media. You should also have a decent sense of humor, not be too arrogant, and generally be someone I'd like to be around and can trust.

I'm decent and understand most disciplines required for a startup, but it's too hard and not that fun to do everything on my own. That means you should really be able to show me demonstrable abilities, as I'm pretty demanding of someone who wants the title "cofounder." Ambition is great, but you better have worked on lots of stuff in your spare time if you have no track record.

I can show you that I'm an accomplished developer with many job offers each week that I turn down so that I can stick with consulting and pursue startup dreams. You should also be someone in demand, but turning down work. Honestly, I meet a lot of unemployable talkers and not enough doers.

My current ambition is to turn craise.com into a great business. There is a long story behind the existing product, but that's not the important part. The business model is there and I have the product direction. We need "customer development" - early customers to figure out our product and distribution model.

I've got lots of other projects behind me, including cribq.com - which I use all the time but hasn't been touched in 4 years. I built a good part of divvy.com for a client. I'm currently developing a social shopping system for a client.

I have a complex and long story to my life, as many of us entrepreneurs do, but I have experience with business, management, I speak Mandarin Chinese, and play ice hockey.

I'd love to do an incubation program like YC.

Get in touch at alex at stacktrace.com and we can meet.

chrischen5• 16 years ago

I'd like a co-founder for like.fm (Social music discover: twitter meets music). After ping launched I rode the press wave. Getting around 50 new signups/day now (up from about 1 or 2) and it's going up fast. I'd like someone technical. I've got code in c++, c#, php, python, JavaScript, and objective-c. Using mongodb. Will need to use lucene soon (non-search related use) and possibly solr for search. The last two I've never used so if you know them that's a huge plus. Also I have no CS degree so if you do, that would complement my skills. And if you've scaled apps before, another plus. Contact me at chris@like.fm for more info.

pclark2• 16 years ago

Chris is awesome, Like.FM is super interesting product - and Chris has good taste in music.

chrischen5• 16 years ago

Haha thanks! And I just found out Like.fm's been featured on CNET. And here I was begging bloggers to write about Like.fm... http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-20015614-27.html

So yea don't hesitate to contact me. Join in on something big!

adrianwaj3• 16 years ago

I was hoping to see something come from Flixa. Keep up the good work.

chrischen5• 16 years ago

Hey Adrian. Been a while.

Yea Flixa was why I took hiatus from school. But the filmmaker I was working with wasn't too enthusiastic. I started Like.fm as a side project so I can revisit songs I hear from iTunes radio and noticed after the first day I put it up (the version that allowed signups) many eons ago, people were spontaneously signing up. And this was back when it looked ugly(ier) and even less functional. So I took the path of least resistance.

chrischen5• 16 years ago

I should also mention, if your specialty is machine learning, that's a super bonus.

jacoblyles• 16 years ago

Hi.

I'm located in Mountain View and looking for a co-founder for an app in the local social space (like Message Party, i.e. connecting people to people near them physically in space). I could use a mobile developer or someone to help on the web backend.

But really I'm just looking for someone to help steer this project and to share in the trials and joys of putting together a new product. It's okay if you don't have a ton of experience - we're both learning as we go along.

My weakness is making things LOOK good. I could use a designer. But mostly I just want a second to make me be accountable to someone and feel like I have a real startup.

Drop me an email. It's in my profile. We can meet up at Red Rock.

alexro• 16 years ago

I'd be interested in a business/communications female co-founder since my product is women-targeted. I'm the only founder-developer and it's still in the early stage so plenty of time to make collective decisions. The business model is real, but bootstrapping doesn't accelerate getting to profitability. I'll consider applying to a seed program.

tchae2• 16 years ago

I'm looking for a developer who fancies himself a designer (or vice versa) out in Boston area (preferably). Someone interested in pursuing the creation of a startup called nuSage http://nuSage.com which helps recruiters connect with college students.

I have a great background in biz dev as well as the general business side (marketing, customer development, management, and sales). Now I'm looking for someone to complement my skill set.

I landed the first investment check around the amount of what incubator/accelerator programs give out and I have another one around the same amount being finalized within the next two weeks.

I know the money isn't enough to pay market (obviously) I am very flexible with providing my tech co-founder with plenty enough living expenses to get us going into the angel round of financing projected somewhere around december.

email me at tim.chae@gmail.com!

dgudkov• 16 years ago

Looking for tech co-founder for my startup - cloud-based web-charting with some unique and smart social features.

Ideal person is experienced developer 30+ y.o. who wants to take full responsibility for back-end (database model, CRUD methods, server side of AJAX, integration with 3rd party services, etc.) and build scalable and expandable architecture. Also he/she enjoys smart ways to resolve complex technical problems, respects deadlines and is creative and positive critic.

Telecommuting is OK.

Those who interested - please see my profile for contact details.

rdl• 16 years ago

I'm looking for a technical/business cofounder or two for my new virtualization/cloud security infrastructure thing. I am spending the rest of 2010 outside the US, but will be moving somewhere (default: Palo Alto) in January 2011, and am working on it remotely now. I'd be flexible on location (within the US, Austin and Seattle are on my list; NYC is the only major city I rule out), or international, but I think there's a better sales/marketing/talent case in the US.

I'd also like to find a kickass startup enterprise sales guy -- someone who can be hands on to start, and then either transition to building/running a team, or just being a great individual contributor. That could be one of the founders, or sometime in 2011.

I know some great people around SFBA, including some domain experts for some of the core technologies, but I'm very interested in having the best founding team possible, so any additional options would be great.

amac• 16 years ago

I'm a management graduate looking to work with a technical person. My contact information is in my profile. Particularly interested in mobile, marketplaces and merchantry.

zhyder• 16 years ago

I'm looking for a cofounder for a new startup. Still in idea phase (which means I'm open to yours as well :)), but I have an idea+prototype for something I'm personally excited about: augmented reality for shopping.

I'm usually in the valley, but traveling at present. zhyder at dabbleboard dot com

olalonde• 16 years ago

I'm looking for a co-founder with experience in the online payment industry (preferably non technical but will consider technical if you're bringing something new to the table). See http://www.payfacade.com.

petervandijck2• 16 years ago

You're looking for a preferably non-technical co-founder?

Dramatize• 16 years ago

It might be a long shot, but anyone in the Brisbane Australia area?

barrydahlberg• 16 years ago

Auckland... close.... ish?

BJakopovic• 16 years ago

I'm interested in getting into something in Brisbane. Hit me up.

lachyg• 16 years ago

I'm looking for a technical co-founder. Excellent in Ruby, specifically Ruby on Rails.

I'm doing the marketing, project management, running the show, idea development. I guess the business guy role.

The startup is basically a way of connecting clients with high quality front end developers. Imagine a high quality, curated eLance.com. Imagine a merged eLance.com and a PSD2HTML.com.

It's called 'CollectiveJam'.

I'm reasonably far in, and have all the designs being worked on as we speak, and everything set into motion.

fapi1974• 16 years ago

We are a garage-stage company with a product that provides premium booking services to demanding taxi users. We are pre-funding, have a demo-ready prototype, and our product will be ready to ship in a couple of months.

We are looking for a business cofounder who will be initially responsible for taking the solution to market: a combination of strategic thinking along with plenty of hands-on work developing sales channels on the supply side (taxis) & on the demand side (users). We are in fairly advanced conversations with several partners already, so you will have to hit the ground running.

This is a high-risk/high-reward position with a big slice of equity for the right candidate, and the opportunity to be first in line for tackling a market valued at $1-2B (worldwide).

Ping me through HN or write to us at jobs [at]swishly[dot]com

hackernoob• 16 years ago

I'm looking for a technical co-founder for a social platform ala twitter (it's not twitter, but I'm just using that as a reference). I have a prototype and a clear vision.

I'm looking for an experienced, and enthusiastic technical copartner who "gets it", is excited about the potential, and want's to really work on this project to see it succeed.

I'm open to languages, platforms because at this stage it really doesn't matter. Typical web stacks are a good starting point. More, and deeper experience is always appreciated.

vikas98@hotmail.com

nl• 16 years ago

Looking in Adelaide, Australia for another developer/biz person co-founder with skills that complement mine. I'm planning to apply to YC for this (October) intake.

I'd like to remain a little stealthy about exactly what I'm working on, but it's location based, with mobile and web components. Despite that somewhat generic description I think I have one unique insight which just might have some fairly profitable ramifications.

I have some other ideas too, and I'm more than happy to discuss anything you might have, too.

Here's what my YC application currently say about my co-founder situation:

I don't have a co-founder, but I do have people who would join if this was successful.

I would like to find the right co-founder, though. Ideally I need someone who is a natural networker and business development person as the success of this project will come down to adoption. I'm good at the product management side of that, but someone who can drive building distribution and advertising partnerships would help a lot.

Other things that would be useful:

- Local - Design taste for both web and mobile apps - iPhone developer skills (I can handle Android) - Java or maybe Python web-dev skills

Contact details on profile

rach• 16 years ago

I am looking for a technical co-founder, either based out of bay area or India. I have a business background. Doing whatever it takes to make things happen, is something I consider as my strength. Currently, I'm the only founder, and have built a basic working prototype with the help of hacker friends (who cannot join the team full time right now).

The app is about leveraging our social graph. The idea has been validated, and I'm planning to test out the app with real users in a month's time - currently some bug fixing is being done. I'm also planning to apply for YC October batch.

I'm looking for a hacker who shares the entrepreneurial passion, is ready to work hard and do whatever it takes to build a successful startup, is open to ideas, has a sense of humor and an appetite for the early stage pre-funded startup roller-coaster ride. Also, someone who has experience building a consumer / social app from scratch - even if it's a fun side project, but having built something from grounds up is a huge plus. Being able to communicate, set right expectations and meet them is important.

I'm reachable at mattshapiro77 at gmail dot com

shuleatt• 16 years ago

I'm currently based in NYC, but thinking of moving to SF. I'm looking to join or start something though I could care less about the title I'm given. I don't code per se, but have an excellent sense of product, marketing and biz dev. I've raised angel and VC and sold one company. I can get shit done. A recent side project of mine is http://eat.ly. I'm open to whatever and have a few technical folks who'd join the right project I was involved with. Email in profile.

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