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

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Post by nickelcitymario » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 5:41 PM UTC

eg312 wrote: post #140

nickelcitymario wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For what it's worth, I'd do it as a SaaS. 100%. Free to generate PDFs. Pay to print. Take a cut from each printing job, but outsource the printing and distribution. I suspect you won't find a single mass market for this. The mass market is well served by generically designed notebooks. Instead, you'll find a number of highly profitable niche markets. (Like the D&D crowd, the design crowd, the hacker crowd, STEM teach…

Great advice! The printing quality & shipping will be a problem and I was thinking to offer the print on demand just as a 'secondary' option, not a feature. Probably it would be more profitable to create custom widgets and designs for companies or exporting the layouts as standalone, mini-apps - something like an UI/app editor (what you see is what you get) - that are also printable :)

> Probably it would be more profitable to create custom widgets and designs for companies or exporting the layouts as standalone, mini-apps - something like an UI/app editor (what you see is what you get) - that are also printable :)

So under this model, you'd be banking on printers to pay for the software? I could be wrong but I think that would be a mistake. I've worked with a lot of printers and I've never met one that felt like they needed innovation. Printing is an industry that begrudgingly accepts innovation when it's forced upon them.

On the consumer end of things, I suspect you'll struggle to get people to pay much for the use of the software itself. Many people might simply take inspiration from your work, then do it themselves if they're going to print it themselves anyway. But they would likely pay a premium for on-demand printing.

All that being said, I could be projecting. The aspect of this product that I would personally pay for is the ability to have my custom designed notebook printed and shipped to me. That's very valuable to me as a notebook lover. If I print it myself, the quality will suck. If I design it myself, it'll suck.

But if I can use your app to drag and drop beautifully-designed components and then have it magically appear at my door? Take my money, please.

That's my 2 cents, anyway. Good luck! I hope you find wild success with this no matter what direction you take, because the idea is that good IMHO.

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

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Post by 4thethrillofit » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 5:41 PM UTC

ryeguy_24 wrote: post #94

4thethrillofit wrote: post #89

I've bootstrapping an ecomm analytics SaaS at https://www.sourcemedium.com/ . There's already product market fit and the company grew to 6-figure ARR since May 2020. Cash-flow positive & profitable since day 1. Slated to double again in Q1 2021. Goal is to reach $1mil ARR with or without investment. There's decent amount of investor interest and growth has only been organic word of mouth so far. The primary needs are…

Interesting...Curious, how did you get to product market fit? Luck, tactics, strategy?

I've worked on a number of companies in various capacity in the past so this time around was much more natural. It's both an art and a science, but the most TLDR way I can put it is the following:

- Thorough understanding of the problem space and niche - Founder-led sales to vet customer segments and gain insights into pain points. Figure out what they'd pay for and sell them the thing. - Have the ability to take the feedback and iterate on the product rapidly.

Rinse and repeat :)

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

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Post by usehackernews » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 5:42 PM UTC

Hi, I’m Dave.

I’m a product manager that is sick of operations & other PMs asking me to write simple SQL queries or create tableau dashboards.

I’m creating a tool that translates human text into simple sql queries to enable data analysis for everyone without needing to learn SQL.

“How many [column name] did we have on [Date]”

This isn’t easy, but if done successfully will be extremely valuable.

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

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Post by epicureanideal » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 5:46 PM UTC

This is a great thread, and I hope it is posted repeatedly like the "Who is hiring" and "Who wants to be hired" threads.

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

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Post by itcrowd » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 5:48 PM UTC

Uninen wrote: post #98

I've been working on a live streaming site for DJs and artists ( https://slipmat.io ) for past 4 years and the project is now in a state where it should probably be incorporated to get it to next level. The current site is a state of the art basic streaming platform with a ton of bespoke functionality for artists, and I have lots of potential ideas for building new features for more higher end segment willing to pay…

Sorry to be of no help, but the platform looks really nice! Congrats & lots of success!

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

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Post by biasdose » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 5:51 PM UTC

ve55 wrote: post #128

These are great threads to have, but I do worry some underestimate the amount of interviewing they should do for a co-founder they've just met from here. As a rule of thumb if you can't imagine yourself being close friends with this person, it's probably not a good idea to have them as a co-founder. It's a much more important, long-term, and intimate relationship than a simple partnership or internship is. I'd sugges…

Totally. I'm looking for someone to see if they agree in different ways and disagree with in the right ways.

How does one create new meaningful intimate relationship in >>PANDEMIC<<

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

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Post by ve55 » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 5:55 PM UTC

biasdose wrote: post #156

ve55 wrote: post #128

These are great threads to have, but I do worry some underestimate the amount of interviewing they should do for a co-founder they've just met from here. As a rule of thumb if you can't imagine yourself being close friends with this person, it's probably not a good idea to have them as a co-founder. It's a much more important, long-term, and intimate relationship than a simple partnership or internship is. I'd sugges…

Totally. I'm looking for someone to see if they agree in different ways and disagree with in the right ways. How does one create new meaningful intimate relationship in >>PANDEMIC<<

If I was meeting a co-founder here I'd probably try something like video-chatting with them, every day, for a week straight. Inevitably you'd end up talking about just about everything, and hopefully getting a real feel for how each of you are as a person.

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

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Post by notoriousarun » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 5:58 PM UTC

ve55 wrote: post #128

These are great threads to have, but I do worry some underestimate the amount of interviewing they should do for a co-founder they've just met from here. As a rule of thumb if you can't imagine yourself being close friends with this person, it's probably not a good idea to have them as a co-founder. It's a much more important, long-term, and intimate relationship than a simple partnership or internship is. I'd sugges…

Get hitched when you're sure.

Finding a cofounder is like love: it often happens when you're not looking for it. The best thing you can do to improve your odds is continue to improve yourself and put yourself out there.

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

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Post by cyberfart » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 6:03 PM UTC

JimWestergren wrote: post #102

I have been working on a card game as a side project since mid 2018 that in my opinion plays better than Hearthstone and Magic: https://thespacewar.com/ Looking for a partner really like these kind of games that can take care of the marketing of the game and help push the project forward. Also maybe that can do technical work on the online browser version (Vue/Node). The online version is playable (alpha) and maybe 8…

> Enter username to play for free directly in your browser

I was so happy after seeing this thinking, "so amazing of them to let me check it out without having to register" only to discover that it led to a register form :(

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

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Post by scottydelta » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 6:07 PM UTC

Hi there, I am Vikash and I have been working on Quantale(Demo: https://quantale.io/demo.mp4) since May 2020. It's basically Robinhood for collecting/analyzing/visualizing data from internet(Twitter, reddit, yelp etc) in realtime as well as doing the same with proprietary data. Quantale provides a modular platform that comes with integrated ability to collect data from commonly used platforms, analyze data using frequently used ML algos and visualize it on aesthetically pleasing dashboards.

Quantale provides end to end data analytics as a service. You can checkout some sample dashboard here: https://public.quantale.io/dashboards/50778f4a-02bb-4d31-b6e...

Quantale was invited to interview for Y Combinator Winter 2021 Batch but Michael Seibel wanted to see some more progress before backing Quantale.

I am looking for a co-founder who is interested in making data analytics accessible to everyone. Contact me(email on profile) for the same or for any suggestions on my project or just to say Hi.