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

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Post by erichanson »

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.

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

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Post by stewjacks »

areoform wrote: post #149
stewjacks wrote: post #121

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 produc…

Your website appears to be down. It might be helpful to link to github and/or an email address.

Profile's updated. The old hackernews effect on my server - try https://www.salientforms.com

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

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Post by Jay_CanCan »

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

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

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Post by nico42 »

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

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

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Post by jamil7 »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #124

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-accessi…

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.

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

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Post by stewjacks »

stevesimmons wrote: post #193
stewjacks wrote: post #121

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 produc…

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 c…

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...

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

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Post by jtchang »

itcrowd wrote: post #137
jtchang wrote: post #127

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.

How do you have 10k teachers and 20 students? Or am I missing something (or a typo)?

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.

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

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Post by isbwkisbakadqv »

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.

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

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Post by rcurry »

trailrunner46 wrote: post #204
rcurry wrote: post #59

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…

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!

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.

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

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Post by pepicon »

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

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