Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?

For immigrants like me, who didn't grow up in the US, the "existing network" is largely absent / non-existent. So we always have difficulty trying to find co-founders as the people you can trust the most in your network are your "butt buddies" (in hindi we call them Chaddi-dost) and they are not here.

And most engineers, esp. technical engineers are introverts and do not like going to networking events.

In 2017 I built and launched a job board of Tech Jobs that sponsor work visa - Think H1-B in US, EU Blue Card in europe, Startup Visas in Netherlands, Germany etc.

URL: http://www.visaok.in/

Traffic: 3,000 to 5000 visitors /month

Applicants: about 3,000 so far who applied through my board.

Users: Mostly from India, China, Ukraine and some from Europe.

I'm based in San Francisco, US. Since I didn't grow up here, I have no network and could not trust anyone, so I was "going it alone" for all these years. But I've hit a wall now and need a co-founder or someone who can take an active role in helping the site grow and monetize.

I'm having difficulty in the marketing area and in getting paid listing from startups. I did some blogging on Quora and am an authority on H1-B visa questions. I'm willing and able to put 5 to 7K USD into any work you think might help fix the problem areas.

I'm looking for a growth hacking / marketing co-founder (or any other role / title experienced in growth marketing) who can review the current state of the site and figure out what needs to be fixed and how to move forward in order to get paid listing, and to service existing users. I'm getting a lot of requests to list non-tech jobs.

I have results from survey question on how to improve it, and I can share that with you.

Also, I posted a question on hiring a designer (cos the theme feels ugly and outdated) and got a lot of feedback from HN community on not focusing on that. Discussion here => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14431770

Lastly, please write to me only if you are passionate about this topic i.e. immigration and work visas.

Contact info:

    shiva (at) visaok.in 

    theblogdoctor (at) gmail.com

But really, are we all not just 'absolute strangers', 'random individuals from the internet', with a 'random early stage startup'... until we're not?

Our incredibly finite networks only form one way—by meeting new people—which has to happen somehow. Clearly there is a mutual vetting process before agreeing to work together; and extending beyond one's current network doesn't necessarily represent a failure of one (or one's current network) to satisfy each relationship. See also Joy's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy's_law_(management)

Building a VR exercise & fitness platform.

Exercising at home is currently too boring for some of us to bother (even though we know more exercise would be good for our health) and simply watching videos gives no control of pace or any sense of progressing towards our goals.

VR content can be so engaging and while Beat Saber shows exercise can be ludicrously fun, it's also repetitive for the arms and doesn't teach you much about your body and how to avoid injury.

I'm currently part of a new Antler.co investment program cohort in London (hope that's ok to mention here :) ) - looking for 1 or 2 co-founders, ideally within the coming four weeks or so.

Would be interested to find another technical founder who can collaborate with me on early content development (mostly working with Unity and wrangling mocap data), and/or someone with marketing experience and an interest in helping build an inclusive community around the project.

Please get in touch via robert at sixbynine.org and let's chat

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-bragg (~15yr graphics, Linux sytems programming and machine learning + comp. vision experience, C/C++, git, all the things :), Intel nearly 10yrs + 2 startups)