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

I’ve been working on a mobile app since 2014 when I became fed up with $300 badge scanners at trade shows while in a tech sales position. It’s pivoted towards a short-and-sweet point-and-click cloud organizer for business cards and contact data syncing and is built with the Azure OCR computer vision API in mind for signal processing. It’s in the Apple App store called Sales-Linked (rebranding to Slink or Slinked). I’ve been searching for a tech lead for the software development team in Armenia and for rapid prototyping while going to market (beachhead is professional networking events such as Network after Work).

Roommate of 3 years is returning to the East Coast, leaving a private master bedroom and bathroom in a 2-bedroom 2-bath apartment open Dec. 1. He will be taking all the living room furniture.

Walking distance to Downtown Culver and Palms Metro Station and adjacent to 10/405 interchange. Amenities include gated parking, central a/c, balcony, vaulted ceilings, friendly neighbors and incredible landlords. (Pet-friendly too)

This is a very Silicon Valley move (where I’m from) to incubate a SaaS product toward commercialization and seed capital from institutional investors. Looking for the right person who is ready for the next adventure in their lives towards financial freedom. 50% equity stake for the risk. $1250 monthly rent.

About me: From Sunnyvale, son of an immigrant who was in the start-up scene in the 80’s. Been in LA since 2010. Dropped out of my Graduate Program at USC in Biomedical Engineering to join the LED lighting manufacturing world. Currently busy growing TopGrow Lighting with my co-founder and high school friend (who still lives in Sunnyvale) manufacturing LED lamp replacements for marijuana cultivation, and my personal brand on Instagram as an arts & culture writer (@jhazani)

I’ve been the crash test dummy for the app while doing the field sales of TopGrow and have found it indispensable with all the contacts I gain as a necessity of being customer-facing. But it falls short as a full product with the necessary features of contact filtering and above all else: OCR scanning and data exporting.

If you’re intrepid enough, I invite you to check the place out and see where things go.

The goal is to present a magic software interface.

I want to say, "forget about apps. What do you want to do? How can I help you?" ...and be an interface to the people who can make these things happen, whether it's location-based services, "business logic", or integrations with other platforms.

I want to offer a service like Magic, for concierge, but include software development as one of those services. Lazily, on demand.

Presenting everything in threads, including graphical elements, is what I see enabling this wizard of oz approach to creating new software on demand.

It's also how I imagine eliminating the clutter of 'traditional' software. Instead of throwing a bunch of buttons, links, and menus at people and hoping they can navigate it... Slater just tells you what to do next, and never shows more than a small handful of choices at a time... and always gives you a way to ask for something different. And if it's something unexpected, it gets handled by a human, and that's how we learn what to build. If a human isn't available immediately, it will ask for permission to holler back later (push notifications, email, etc).

I don't think words do it justice. I just have to show it. FML.