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Re: Ask HN: Who is looking for a cofounder?

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Post by autotune » Sun, Jan 14, 2024, 11:15 PM UTC

lastdong wrote: post #18

autotune wrote: post #13

I am looking for a cofounder. My company is focused on writing, mostly horror novels. See my email address on my profile if interested.

This is super interesting. From your email address domain, couldn’t really reach your homepage. If already up and running, can you please share your company landing page? Otherwise, good luck! And keep us posted

My company landing page is permanently disconnected. As the second law of thermal dynamics states, "the more disordered a system and higher the entropy, the less of a system's energy is available to do work." - https://openstax.org/books/physics/pages/12-3-second-law-of-...

Re: Ask HN: Who is looking for a cofounder?

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Post by codegeek » Sun, Jan 14, 2024, 11:16 PM UTC

Been running solo bootstrapped SAAS for 8+ years already and have seen moderate success (low 7 figures in ARR). Nothing worth gloating but I can build a few things and sell. I have employees but no true partner/co-founder who lives and breathe this stuff with me.

Have some fresh ideas for which I would love to team up. Technical/non-technical doesn't matter. You either build shit or are awesome at talking to customers. I do both as well. If this is you, hit me up. Will start with some side projects together to test compatibility first.

I am in East Coast (Southern NJ). 20 mins from Philadelphia and 1.5 hours from NYC, 3-4 hours from DC. For co-founders, I personally believe that we need to work together in person at least in the beginning. So that's a hard requirement for me.

Note: Experience with YC Founder matching has been terrible at least for me so far.

Re: Ask HN: Who is looking for a cofounder?

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Post by vin047 » Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 12:04 AM UTC

I’m open to one. I’m an app developer – I like building front-end consumer facing apps and am working on several at the moment. Open to bringing someone into my existing projects or working on something new if someone’s got an interesting idea.

Re: Ask HN: Who is looking for a cofounder?

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Post by jealousgelatin » Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 12:51 AM UTC

vin047 wrote: post #23

I’m open to one. I’m an app developer – I like building front-end consumer facing apps and am working on several at the moment. Open to bringing someone into my existing projects or working on something new if someone’s got an interesting idea.

I’m an app/web dev too. Doing a bit more web these days, Next and htmx. But just wrapping up work on a React Native B2C App that had around 50k users. Also a bug mac user ;) Shot me on a msg to the email in my bio

Re: Ask HN: Who is looking for a cofounder?

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Post by altdataseller » Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 1:32 AM UTC

codegeek wrote: post #22

Been running solo bootstrapped SAAS for 8+ years already and have seen moderate success (low 7 figures in ARR). Nothing worth gloating but I can build a few things and sell. I have employees but no true partner/co-founder who lives and breathe this stuff with me. Have some fresh ideas for which I would love to team up. Technical/non-technical doesn't matter. You either build shit or are awesome at talking to customer…

Low 7 figures ARR is something less than 1% of startups can claim they reached. That’s more than a moderate success. That’s a huge success!

Re: Ask HN: Who is looking for a cofounder?

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Post by altdataseller » Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 1:38 AM UTC

bberenberg wrote: post #10

I’ll bite. I built and sold a company. Regret it now. Would really love to get back into something new but haven’t found an idea which really grabs me. Semi technical in the sense that I can architect sane systems that meet business requirements. But not a CS background, and while I can write code, it’s not a good use of my time. Last time was 100% bootstrapped and solo founder. Would love to have a cofounder this go…

What did you regret about selling or building?

Re: Ask HN: Who is looking for a cofounder?

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Post by akg_67 » Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 2:08 AM UTC

codegeek wrote: post #22

Been running solo bootstrapped SAAS for 8+ years already and have seen moderate success (low 7 figures in ARR). Nothing worth gloating but I can build a few things and sell. I have employees but no true partner/co-founder who lives and breathe this stuff with me. Have some fresh ideas for which I would love to team up. Technical/non-technical doesn't matter. You either build shit or are awesome at talking to customer…

If you want to do both build and talk to customers in early startup phase, reach out to me. Check out my profile and if interested reach out via email in profile, Sorry, don't use twitter so can't message you.

Though my current location (Japan) timezone is 14 hours ahead of you, I have a good family base in NY-NJ area with another home base on US west coast and professional network on both coast. So spending few months in the area to work together is not a problem.

I get contacted by too many "idea" people who are one developer or salesman away from making it big. I am not interested in such people. I am interested in teaming up with someone who is capable of doing whatever needed to move forward, someone who can also execute and roll up the sleeves to code when needed, outreach when needed, learn new things when needed, and not afraid to take on unknown. Excellent communication skills, and frequent and open communication are must.

Re: Ask HN: Who is looking for a cofounder?

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Post by maz1b » Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 2:47 AM UTC

I run the largest medical education platform in MENAP as a solo founder. I'm Pakistan's first ever full stack technologist who is also a medical doctor (country of 200m+ people). I firsthand have experienced how broken medical education is, and our platform has over 75,000+ doctors/future doctors and 70m+ questions solved. Looking for help with selling/pilots to medical schools and our cost is far less than pretty much everyone else in the globe in the space, while being more innovative.

If anyone is interested or can help, please do ping me - I'm sure we'll work something out. Email is azib [at] medangle [dot] com

Re: Ask HN: Who is looking for a cofounder?

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Post by DANmode » Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 4:29 AM UTC

DANmode wrote: post #20

vroomvroomy wrote: post #12

Mainly backend dev with 5 years experience with Go, Node, C# as well as AWS and Azure cloud architecture. Open to working on any projects or coming up with ideas or just to network. Email in my about.

Are you open to being a cofounder ? =]

Downvoted because it should be obvious they are not interested in being a cofounder?

or because it's somehow a rude question?

Re: Ask HN: Who is looking for a cofounder?

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Post by pdksam » Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 4:56 AM UTC

codegeek wrote: post #22

Been running solo bootstrapped SAAS for 8+ years already and have seen moderate success (low 7 figures in ARR). Nothing worth gloating but I can build a few things and sell. I have employees but no true partner/co-founder who lives and breathe this stuff with me. Have some fresh ideas for which I would love to team up. Technical/non-technical doesn't matter. You either build shit or are awesome at talking to customer…

How do I reach out to you?