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

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Post by vekker » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 3:39 PM UTC

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.

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

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Post by Gys » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 3:39 PM UTC

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

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

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Post by humanperson_CTO » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 3:39 PM UTC

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

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

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Post by bsirkia » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 3:40 PM UTC

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.

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

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Post by virgil_disgr4ce » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 3:41 PM UTC

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

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Post by rmac » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 3:41 PM UTC

leesalminen wrote: post #53

rmac wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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 u…

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.

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

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Post by steven123 » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 3:43 PM UTC

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.

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

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Post by notahacker » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 3:43 PM UTC

leesalminen wrote: post #38

rmac wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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-t…

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 h…

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.

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

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Post by leesalminen » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 3:50 PM UTC

rmac wrote: post #66

leesalminen wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 u…

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.

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.

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

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Post by jsmith21 » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 3:50 PM UTC

mrdobelina wrote: post #14

jsmith21 wrote: post #9

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

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.

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!