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

#181

If you’re looking for a cofounder, tons of top engineers starting their next companies are converging on Taiwan to do this ten week residency together: https://www.facebook.com/davefontenot/posts/1015820666915435...

This sounds amazing. Two questions:

a) How does this work with the new stricter visa entry requirements for Taiwan? https://www.boca.gov.tw/cp-220-5081-c06dc-2.html

b) Do I need to know Mandarin to be able to communicate with other folks?

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

#182

If you’re looking for a cofounder, tons of top engineers starting their next companies are converging on Taiwan to do this ten week residency together: https://www.facebook.com/davefontenot/posts/1015820666915435...

The fastest way to know if someone is the right cofounder is to 1. Work with them in a high pressure / time boxed environment 2. Live with them This is the perfect environment to do both.

Ad 2. Observe that co-founders spouses reaction to the living together.

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

#183
Looking for a co-founder to do growth, sales and bizdev for a new project:

https://less-dev.com - a tool for software engineering teams to accelerate development of cloud software components (e.g. databases, APIs, batch processes).

The differentiator vs. no-code and low-code tools: enterprise-grade features built-in and no loss of control: it's open-source, can be run on your own cloud, can always export everything, data and code.

I am Pasha, previously technical co-founder at a startup and many other roles in software engineering co's. I'm in the Bay Area.

bio: pashabitz on LinkedIn

ping me: pavelbitz at gmail

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

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I'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…

Interesting! Out of curiosity, how would this work in regards to the character limitations (160 characters I think?) in SMS? What if they're large responses? Is there a hard limit on the total number of text messages sent per request?

I use Twilio for the text messaging, and so they can handle up to 1600 characters per outgoing message request, and larger responses could also be broken into multiple response messages. Users can define LiquidJS templates on the system so that you can cut down the size of the response message if you only want to see certain fields.

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

#185

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.

Really interesting idea. As someone who has been in a data analyst role for roughly 9 years and frustrated by the lack of effort others have to learn SQL or even a BI tool for reporting needs it sounds like an interesting idea. Would be interested in learning more about how you are tackling the issue. Career background is Marketing & Analytics, but I have been doing development work for 6+ (NodeJS,Postgresql,Python) Any preferred method to connect?

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

#186

I have an early prototype of a site that allows people to chain together reasoning in a visual sense, which also propagates truth so that people can know if a conclusion is asserted to be valid/proven. This contrasts from the current definition of "argument mapping", and platforms like Kialo, in that it's more constructive, with logical machinery underpinning it. For instance, if someone has a conclusion that "Earth'…

Just want to say that this is a wild idea and I really like it. I don't know how viable it is but it's definitely interesting.

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

#187
Happy 2021! Mycofounder and I are building Swym, a prize linked savings app using Bitcoin. We're located in the bay area. As a team our background is finance and js development. Were looking to add another engineer! Feel free to check the app out on github, https://github.com/Swym-Pools/Swym_App

Please reach out if interested, steve@coinward.capital

Cheers!

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

#188
post #59

I'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…

great idea!

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

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I'm working on an app to create custom notebook layouts by drag-and-drop graphical widgets with the option to print on demand the result: https://notebookeditor.com/ I have a lot of ideas on how to improve it and I think there are many use cases, especially for creating custom educational materials. But I haven't found the product market fit until now and I don't have a clear plan on how to monetise it. The 'front-en…

great idea!

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

#190

I am looking for someone interested on building a quantitative finance API based on QuantLib. See where it is now at https://quantra.io . I have been working with it for a couple of years discontinuously. This is for a small niche but some people showed interest on it during this time. Looking for someone interested to help on the development and to define it. Although is not close to a commercial product I see it be…

Hey there, where can one contact you to discuss this further?

Yep sorry, joseprupi at gmail dot com.

Something else, I would like to keep at least part of the project as open source, one of the things I have seen in the industry is the lack of transparency which makes hard the validation of the pricing models.

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