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Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects

#1
Hi Guys,

I got overwhelming support and feedback from my last post about secondfounder.com but still, I felt the need of connecting founders together so that they can together buy a side project. It's very often when a non-technical founder buys a project they have to find a technical founder to take that project further.

Today I have implemented this feature in secondfounder.com

Link: https://secondfounder.com/find-founder

Your feedback is always welcome.

Thanks

Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects

#2
Few UX suggestions:

1. People might be more inclined to be interested in applying to be a co-founder if they can actually read the information on the founder/company before applying. However, currently there is a login barrier to seeing that information which may cause some people to decide it isn't worth it and leave the website without looking.

2. Add an easy way to close the login modal. Currently the only way I found was th e back button and that isn't a good solution for the reason in #3

3. Don't hijack the user's history and take control over the back button, it is very user un-friendly

Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects

#3
I keep getting 'login to continue' when I click. Anybody have an account I can use?

Edit: OP stopped responding and it doesn't seem like anybody made it past the login-gate. If someone from the future is reading this, please take note, this is not the way to demo.

Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects

#4
post #3

I keep getting 'login to continue' when I click. Anybody have an account I can use? Edit: OP stopped responding and it doesn't seem like anybody made it past the login-gate. If someone from the future is reading this, please take note, this is not the way to demo.

sorry i didnt get you, can you explain more please?

Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects

#5

Few UX suggestions: 1. People might be more inclined to be interested in applying to be a co-founder if they can actually read the information on the founder/company before applying. However, currently there is a login barrier to seeing that information which may cause some people to decide it isn't worth it and leave the website without looking. 2. Add an easy way to close the login modal. Currently the only way I f…

noted, gonna fix this before producthunt launch

Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects

#6

Few UX suggestions: 1. People might be more inclined to be interested in applying to be a co-founder if they can actually read the information on the founder/company before applying. However, currently there is a login barrier to seeing that information which may cause some people to decide it isn't worth it and leave the website without looking. 2. Add an easy way to close the login modal. Currently the only way I f…

> 3. Don't hijack the user's history and take control over the back button, it is very user un-friendly

yes, so much this. not as worse as hijacking my scrolling, but this comes second

Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects

#7
Semantic quibble: A founder founds a company, if you're buying it you aren't a founder.

More broadly is there a market for side projects? I could understand someone's side project expanding to the point they need to bring someone else on board (which is what the name implies to me). It seems to me that if the founder is selling its probably because there isn't money in it. Or at least I would be concerned that the bulk of sales are for that reason rather than because the founder has another job or something.

Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects

#8
post #3

I keep getting 'login to continue' when I click. Anybody have an account I can use? Edit: OP stopped responding and it doesn't seem like anybody made it past the login-gate. If someone from the future is reading this, please take note, this is not the way to demo.

sorry i didnt get you, can you explain more please?

Which part?
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