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Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects
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Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects
#22Semantic 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 bu…
would you consider Elon Musk a founder of Tesla?
Is Zuckerburg the founder of Instagram? The company went from 13 employees and 30 million users to 450 employees and 2 billion users. 98.5% of users came after the purchase, but I still don't think most people would call him the founder.
Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects
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#24This is really an interesting idea, because there are people who literally can't take it to the next level...but it's not really big enough for a capital infusion.
I guess I'll be hunting for something I can turn into a lifestyle business. Then I'll just roll these lifestyle businesses into riches!
I would have done this with one of my old companies years ago if this had existed. At the time I was making like 80k/year off of it for maybe 30 minutes of work a month. Now the market is gone, but still.
Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
would you consider Elon Musk a founder of Tesla?
Is Zuckerburg the founder of Instagram? The company went from 13 employees and 30 million users to 450 employees and 2 billion users. 98.5% of users came after the purchase, but I still don't think most people would call him the founder.
That's a bit disingenuous though, it's like saying YouTube got 99% of their accounts post acquisition, knowing that the majority of these were merely Google accounts who through the associative property of acquisitions were delegated these accounts by the purchaser.
In my opinion Instagram sold a bit early[0], but coming from an app that existed merely as the first widely used iteration of phone-camera filters, I can't necessarily blame them. Who'd have thought that Instagram, and also Giphy to an extent had -any- form of business model or potential for profit? I sure didn't.
[0] - sidenote: (in the financial and growth sense, not the chronological sense)
Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects
#26Unable to signup. Stripe checkout error "A valid Importer/Exporter Code (IEC) is needed to present in USD. Please contact contact https://support.stripe.com/contact/email if you have any questions."
I'm using US AMEX which works fine on all other Stripe checkouts I use.
Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects
#27So is premium a "premium" experience or is it meant to be the base functionality of the site? Two of the premium offerings are: • Contact directly with the founder through messages • Find and contact second co-founder That seems like the entire reason anyone would use the app, am I wrong?
You are right, also you cant access the basic info of the project, all the sensitive information is provided to those who are premium. this is just to filter out the spam provide the real value to the founders/sellers.
By providing real value to founders/sellers, you're taking away so much value from potential co-founders such that no co-founders will want to use this. And if there are no co-founders, then why would founders or sellers use your platform?
Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects
#28Semantic 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 bu…
> is there a market for side projects?
Yes. I'm always interested in cool security projects.
Re: Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects
#29Unable to signup. Stripe checkout error "A valid Importer/Exporter Code (IEC) is needed to present in USD. Please contact contact https://support.stripe.com/contact/email if you have any questions." I'm using US AMEX which works fine on all other Stripe checkouts I use.
I contacted stripe and they said there is an ongoing problem with AMEX Cards with Indian stripe users.
Could you please use a different card?