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

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Post by tanaylakhani »

I’m looking for co-founders in Mumbai, India.

I’m Tanay . I’m building a search engine for bookmarks and knowledge to provide recommendations from users' bookmarks across platforms, including X, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, etc.

I chose to build this product because I had more than 3000 thousand bookmarks scattered across apps that I was not revisiting or using. Every time I start to scroll through, I would only end up with the first 10-15.

If you’re interested and passionate about building a tool that people love using and love paying for, shoot me a message.

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

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Post by austin-cheney »

n3rv wrote: post #8

25-year network architect/system admin here. I am disappointed and furious about the progress of our communications industry. ISPs for far too long have been milking the taxpayers and foremost the customers. During high school, I ran our town's dial-up ISP. This was a high school program to bring internet to our little town, at an affordable non-long-distance price. My most recent employment was taking a wISP from 13…

I am not upset by ISPs. I am finding fiber to the house is a cure for the complaints I once had.

My primary frustration is the lagging adoption of IPv6 and the lagging reliance on advertising funded centrally managed servers/services that only exist to connect around NAT. For example if I wanted to text a remote user of share a file I should be able to do so without uploading to a server. In that case end-to-end encryption go from super challenging to incredibly easy.

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

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Post by morphle »

n3rv wrote: post #8

25-year network architect/system admin here. I am disappointed and furious about the progress of our communications industry. ISPs for far too long have been milking the taxpayers and foremost the customers. During high school, I ran our town's dial-up ISP. This was a high school program to bring internet to our little town, at an affordable non-long-distance price. My most recent employment was taking a wISP from 13…

I have been looking for a cofounder to start an ISP since 1997 when I stopped running the first ISP I founded in 1988. I never found a business partner who didn't want to overcharge the customers.

First, fiber can be done much better than any provider I've seen. Every house 4x10gbps openflow switches with P2P fibers to the neighbours brings down the network cost below $1 per month (from $10-$25 rental). IP transit cost for most would be just $1. Maybe another $1 for a huge disk cache (TV streaming). The most expensive part of the fee would be for helpdesk, support and billing.

The router can have TOR and anonymous VPN hardware at linespeed.

Better still to do Enernet: optical plus electrical grid, so you can trade your solar and ev battery electricity with the neighbourhood.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309254511_Fiberhood...

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

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Post by codegeek »

pdksam wrote: post #30
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?

Added email in profile. Feel free to reach out

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

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Post by codegeek »

akg_67 wrote: post #27
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 mont…

Sure. Happy to chat. Will reach out. Also added email to profile now

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

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Post by codegeek »

altdataseller wrote: post #25
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!

I hear you. It is no easy feat. I just have the hunger to build something much bigger and I m not just talking about money.

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

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Post by TechnicalMessag »

Software engineer, see profile.

Also might make a small platform for matching technical people with other technical people because of the other post[1]. You can message about that too, if you want to either participate in that as a regular user looking for a cofounder, or do programming to make that platform as a contributor or cofounder.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38255692

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

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Post by chunkymonki33 »

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 looking for dev with consumer experience. Non-technical, but strong in corporate and product strategy. Can run marketing and partnerships as well. Atm working on an AI concierge service to help new parents find healthy and safe baby products. Let me know if you want to connect!

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

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Post by chunkymonki33 »

jealousgelatin wrote: post #24
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

Would love to connect but don’t see your email…
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