I worked for many years in the generic API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients) business in Mexico and just started a company in Europe to connect suppliers and clients from Asia/Europe with clients in Latin America. I already build a platform to organize/automatize all the technical and commercial interchange of information and had really great feedback from my prior clients, but I just don't want to do it on my own. I am looking for anyone who is interested in something really nice to niche! Technical (PHP/Laravel, new ideas, commercial background, Pharmaceutical background, etc.) and available to destroy an old school, booring market! PM me?
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#72I'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 like the idea. Random feedback, there's something that makes the http://relar.app scroll very laggy in the area over the screenshot (Safari, recent Macbook Pro).
Thanks :) And thank you for the feedback. I'm also on a recent MBP and safari and haven't had that issue. I'll try to reproduce!
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I think it could work and is superior to manual entry. But when I mention it to my local SMB they mostly scoff. Maybe just too small of a sample size.
Thanks for the input though! Encouraging to hear this has worked for others before.
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#74I'm prototyping a dietary/nutritional counseling platform. My background is software development (CS @ MIT) and I was co-founder of a startup with a 9 figure acquisition, but am always looking for help from ambitious and sharp technical talent (to bring in at the co-founder level).
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#75I'm looking for a co-founder/iOS Developer/vinyl record lover to continue working with me on https://www.discofm.co — https://apps.apple.com/us/app/disco-fm-vinyl-audio-preview/i... It's an app for vinyl record lovers currently live in the App Store with over 3000 downloads, daily usage and downloads and that has been featured in many music related websites such as Resident Advisor, Dj Mag, Mix Mag and many others. C…
thats really cool. I'd like to help somehow, being a volunteer if needed.
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#76Having worked on a couple of failed relationships, it’s also ok to be a sole founder. Perhaps the problem is with me, I personally like having 100% control over initial formation of the company.
I guess, a team is much more productive in the early stage. But one can’t ditch co-founders later when 95% of development work is done and the rest 5% are customization for particular customer.
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#77Been leading https://www.roboy.org for the last 7 years, completed third generation robot in Q4/20, now looking to commercialise it. Looking for a BD co-founder. Location: Munich, Germany, Approach: Global, Space: Luxury, Tech: Humanoid Robotics
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
how do you know it's 80%? have you spoken with other local buyers? Maybe the floor is something like 20%?
let's say it is 80, can you imagine a way to get 80% of the supply (stores) onto this platform? Or, could you chart a path to get to x% supply after y weeks?
idea 1: fake it, just list stores and items on a website and find out a way to get users to see it without paying for ads
idea 2: sign stores up one by one, using some interview-derived value proposition, and get your friends to help onboarding new stores, challenge them to sign up x% more stores per week
idea 3: post about it on hn :(
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#79Hi! I am Shrey, 17, and am looking for a co-founder for my AI and education startup. The aim is to 1. Build AI kits for beginners and anybody looking for a way to apply machine intelligence without having to code or hire a dev. This also includes building sensors, collecting data, building a model-zoo 2. Educate students about AI and how they can use it 3. Build a browser based training interface aimed at creatives.…
Nice project! I'm building something similar but not hardware related; instead, I'm trying to make AI accessible to creators and small businesses in web/desktop/mobile platforms. I have a vlog showing daily progress throughout 2021: https://www.youtube.com/user/jluraschi -- If you want to reach out, I'm at my jluraschi at gmail.com.
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#80I'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. Wishing you the best of luck!