Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder?

I'm in the UK. North East to be precise. I'm not new to business, nor programming, but I'm looking for a co-founder for a Python related app related to brand monitoring.

I'm looking for a co-founder, or really a partner, because my company is already founded.

My product is currently in Beta and I should be releasing V1 soon.

You can download a copy of my product here:

http://www.transactor.com

If you are interested, please send mail to:

cofounder@transactor.com

I'm looking for an engineer who can help start work on V2 of the product.

The basic qualifications that I'm looking for are:

1. You have to be willing work with out pay (in return for a big chunk of equity), until we start generating revenue.

2. You have to be ready to make a firm commitment to the business.

3. You have to be a hacker.

4. You have to have at least 7, but preferable 10 years of programming experience. This doesn't mean you have to be 10 years out of school. If you are 23, just graduated from college, but have been programming since you were 13, that would qualify as 10 years of programming experience. This is pretty firm. I need to know that you will be able to work independently, at a high level, from the "get-go". If you can't hit the ground running then it isn't worth the cost of brining you on board.

5. Your experience should have some significance. If your 10 years of experience is really 1 year of experience 10 times over, then it doesn't count. It can be stuff you did on your own, or in school. However, you should have a list of impressive projects that demonstrate you are a top notch programmer. For example, in the course of getting a BS in Computer Science, I was able to accomplish the following projects:

a. I wrote a compiler

b. I converted a Java data flow analysis framework that worked over source, to also work over byte code

c. I wrote an implementation of the genetic algorithm

d. I wrote a library that added method injection (before and after methods) to C#

Plus I worked full time as a programmer while going to school full time.

6. You can't be a snob. If you are the type of person that thinks "all Windows Programmers are idiots", then I don't want you. Transactor makes tools for programmers. Windows programmers are the largest segment of the developer market.

7. You have to be interested in building a business, not in career advancement. You aren't going to get promoted. If we succeed, you may get wealthy. That has to be enough. If you want to build a business, so that when it grows you career will advance, and you can fulfill your life long dream of being a middle manager, I don't want you. Transactor eschews "career thinking".

8. I don't care where you work from. However, you have to be willing to fly out to Seattle to do an in-person technical interview.

I'm looking for a co-founder in Seattle. I have product ideas involving voice-to-text, automatic speech recognition, and mechanical turk, but would love to discuss other ideas as well. I'm an experienced Python/Django developer and Linux server admin, created Browsershots in 2005. Email is on my profile.

Maybe you and jcrocholl should touch base with each other.

Also: what platform are you developing on? Is this a C# application?

would've said yes 9 months ago, then I moved to Boston :)