Meetup used to be a good place for this. Not sure now it’s very dependent on your location.
Ask HN: Where to meet people who are interested in building a company together?
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#12Join an existing startup in the same field. Not only will you learn a lot - on someone else’s dime - but you will meet plenty of people hungry to do the same.
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#13Imo the hardest part is timing - meeting like minded people who are ready and available to start building now.
The best solution I’ve seen so far is https://joinef.com , they run programs in a bunch of major cities.
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#14I’ll put this out there as a point that’s serious and I’ve come across a few times as both a founder and freelancer.
No body wants to build your idea for free. For those that are reading this and thinking that finding a cofounder is actually just finding a set of hands you can work with, be buds and create your idea and you can split it 50-50 or whatever. Just stop.
These people don’t exist in the random hallways of the internet. You’re asking for someone to get on your amusement park ride of horror for a multi year commitment, risk it all at great cost on every metric imaginable.
Sorry to be a downer but anyone worth their salt won’t be willing to do that.
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#15startupschool.org
Clickable link: https://www.startupschool.org/
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#16I’ll put this out there as a point that’s serious and I’ve come across a few times as both a founder and freelancer. No body wants to build your idea for free. For those that are reading this and thinking that finding a cofounder is actually just finding a set of hands you can work with, be buds and create your idea and you can split it 50-50 or whatever. Just stop. These people don’t exist in the random hallways of…
Idk, I've been dumb enough to do this twice now.
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#17YCs startup school has a founder match section you can put what you want and looking for as well as filter out by hours willing to commit. There is a lot of people looking for developers but also a good chunk that has some off shore investment and MVP going and pretty exciting to see.
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#18I’ll put this out there as a point that’s serious and I’ve come across a few times as both a founder and freelancer. No body wants to build your idea for free. For those that are reading this and thinking that finding a cofounder is actually just finding a set of hands you can work with, be buds and create your idea and you can split it 50-50 or whatever. Just stop. These people don’t exist in the random hallways of…
Idk, I've been dumb enough to do this twice now.
Well then.. has.. it worked? No? What went wrong?
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#19I've found one from https://startupschool.org, built a project together (i am the tech one), didn't continue finally because he wanted to continue with his startup and I don't feel like I can code and commit my time further.
Weird experience, I would love to have another co-founder who can code together or even work together in something tbh. I guess having someone who can code with you together makes it more fun? Rather than having a product guy waiting for you to code
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#20https://www.meetup.com/
Find meetup groups and start social networking in them. Try the startup, computer science, programming, business, etc meetup groups.