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Re: Ask HN: Who's Looking for a Co-Founder?

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Post by chataway »

Building Instant group chat for nearby loosely affiliated people (does the world need yet another chat app?, surprisingly it does!)

What I am building unlocks value and solves problems of current options. Maintains privacy, keeps out randos.

No, isn’t one of those been done million times, who is around you, just based on GPS, apps).

The magic happens in the backend, looking for someone who will focus on development of all server-side logic, You can make mobile apps that can handle lots of concurrent chats/chatrooms, thousands of users. It starts out simple but gets complex, lots of interesting problems to solve. More concerned about it works than how it looks, so basic frontend skills would be nice, but again back matters more

Basic MVP already built with React Native. You would not be building from scratch, but adding features (some very basic like social login and images) then followed by more complex things. Later we can do swift/kotlin apps for iOS/Android if needed.

You being based in the Bay Area would be nice but not a requirement. Built other chat apps before or something like that? Say hi. email in profile.

Looking forward to working with someone who likes to move fast and make something pretty cool. Its a big market we would be targeting.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Looking for a Co-Founder?

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Post by ggcdn »

goworthy wrote: post #4

I'd like to build something with someone. I work full time so it would have to start as a side project. I'm in Ireland so someone who likes remote or is in the same timezone would work best.

What are your interests and skills?

I'm also looking for someone to build a side project with.

I've got a few things I'm working on but they aren't necessarily huge money makers.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Looking for a Co-Founder?

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Post by pouta »

goldenchrome wrote: post #15

UX Designer at Google with some front end chops interested in working on a practical project that solves a real user problem. Reply here and let's chat! Based in the Bay Area.

Last month I did a week of user interviews in one of my customers office I noticed for the first time that their face light up as soon as they know I'm the guy that made the "new thing".

That made me realize I'm actually making journalists lives better with my software.

I left a comment with more details in this post. I'm a software engineer with plenty of professional experience and design is not my strong.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Looking for a Co-Founder?

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Post by quaquaqua1 »

I need a business guy to run all of the legal/operations day to day stuff. I have a business in the home heating oil space that I only want to run as a CTO.

I am also open to programming all of your ideas as well in a separate biz.

Please email :) the alias is "dogchienwoof" at google's email service

Re: Ask HN: Who's Looking for a Co-Founder?

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Post by ethanwillis »

Rodeoclash wrote: post #26

I'm a Melbourne, Australia based developer that's been working on a product that can launch any pull request or commit into a self contained, sharable environment accessed via a simple link. A few people are working in this space but my product has a few features that others don't have which I can go over. I'm at the point where we use the tool continuously at my day job but I'm fairly time poor to take it beyond tha…

That's an interesting idea. Is there some way to follow or subscribe to anything for updates?

Re: Ask HN: Who's Looking for a Co-Founder?

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Post by Rodeoclash »

ethanwillis wrote: post #35
Rodeoclash wrote: post #26

I'm a Melbourne, Australia based developer that's been working on a product that can launch any pull request or commit into a self contained, sharable environment accessed via a simple link. A few people are working in this space but my product has a few features that others don't have which I can go over. I'm at the point where we use the tool continuously at my day job but I'm fairly time poor to take it beyond tha…

That's an interesting idea. Is there some way to follow or subscribe to anything for updates?

I haven't setup a formal mailing list yet but send me an email at sam@richardson.co.nz and I'll make sure you get updates.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Looking for a Co-Founder?

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Post by nickstrickler »

Rodeoclash wrote: post #26

I'm a Melbourne, Australia based developer that's been working on a product that can launch any pull request or commit into a self contained, sharable environment accessed via a simple link. A few people are working in this space but my product has a few features that others don't have which I can go over. I'm at the point where we use the tool continuously at my day job but I'm fairly time poor to take it beyond tha…

I like the idea. Who else do you know of that is working on this?

Re: Ask HN: Who's Looking for a Co-Founder?

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Post by Rodeoclash »

nickstrickler wrote: post #37
Rodeoclash wrote: post #26

I'm a Melbourne, Australia based developer that's been working on a product that can launch any pull request or commit into a self contained, sharable environment accessed via a simple link. A few people are working in this space but my product has a few features that others don't have which I can go over. I'm at the point where we use the tool continuously at my day job but I'm fairly time poor to take it beyond tha…

I like the idea. Who else do you know of that is working on this?

At least two (another one in Melbourne strangely enough)

* https://linc.sh/ * https://featurepeek.com/

Both of these are frontend only feature previews however, they assume an available backend to connect to the frontend code. My tool (Stagehand) will preview the entire stack, provided you can run your setup in Docker. Considering the last three places I've worked all used Docker Compose to run the local development environment and Docker in the CI pipeline, it was a no brainer to use it for the previews as well.

My main differentiator, aside from running the full stack, you can also run supporting services alongside the preview. In our case, we run an emulated S3 endpoint and a tool to catch outgoing mail (it poses as an SMTP server). This means that if you're testing a piece of functionality that uploads to S3, you can easily complete the action then change to the S3 emulator and see the file is uploaded to the correct place. Likewise with the email catcher, it makes it really easy to see invite emails being sent out, or welcome emails after signup.

Other examples might include a frontend to your database, e.g. PGAdmin, so you could directly change the database in the preview then test the result.

The original use case was so that I could easily share my work with others in my 9 - 5 job. However, as I've taken more responsibility over the team here I'm using it more for testing others work before it gets merged to master.

If anyone would like to trail it, I've made a Google Form here you can put your name on: https://forms.gle/cMB2mDbt5342bQ8P9

While the system works and is stable, documentation is ...non existent. I'd need to help you get setup to use the service (and it would give me an excuse to write the docs as I do it)

Re: Ask HN: Who's Looking for a Co-Founder?

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Post by Rodeoclash »

Rodeoclash wrote: post #36
ethanwillis wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's an interesting idea. Is there some way to follow or subscribe to anything for updates?

I haven't setup a formal mailing list yet but send me an email at sam@richardson.co.nz and I'll make sure you get updates.

Edit: A signup form can be found at https://forms.gle/cMB2mDbt5342bQ8P9 if you want to keep up to date.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Looking for a Co-Founder?

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Post by p1esk »

I’m looking for someone with deep learning experience to work on music generation/synthesis ideas. This would be more like a side project at first, and (depending on the quality of the PoC we build) can lead to a startup. I have 5 years of DL research experience in several areas (vision, speech, NLP).
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