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If you don't know what area you want to work in, you should go find the communities that interest you and engage with them. This is regardless of whether you're looking to collaborate, or to solve someone's problems professionally. Also, throw your contact information into the world. Fruitful relationships have started just like that, even on HN.
I was at the same situation a year ago, and I was browsing through some startup oriented fanpages, where I found a guy who posted comment like "I'm a construction site manager, and have an app idea, looking for cofounder". I contacted him (this was over a year ago), we talked, but eventually it didn't work out, we were based in different cities, and I was still finishing my master degree.
He hired a software house to make the whole product for him. He was able to get couple customers, but the software house was just very slow, made a lot of bugs, and made him pay a lot of money for fixes.
Couple months ago, he wrote me back and basically said he needs me as CTO. We met, shook hands and started working. I've redesigned and made a new iOS app, fixed backend and released a solid update. He is talking to customers, gathering feedback, analyzing keywords, buying ads.
It is working splendidly, and I see that this relation is somehow a Nash equilibrium. I don't have construction site knowledge or contacts. He doesn't have any technical background. So we are both better off working together.
It's still early days, and a lot of work ahead of us, but this is my first side-project that already helps people in the real world.
I think finding a business partner is a great idea, unless you are making some kind of low-level software, let's say db, web server etc. I was at the same situation a year ago, and I was browsing through some startup oriented fanpages, where I found a guy who posted comment like "I'm a construction site manager, and have an app idea, looking for cofounder". I contacted him (this was over a year ago), we talked, but e…
I think finding a business partner is a great idea, unless you are making some kind of low-level software, let's say db, web server etc. I was at the same situation a year ago, and I was browsing through some startup oriented fanpages, where I found a guy who posted comment like "I'm a construction site manager, and have an app idea, looking for cofounder". I contacted him (this was over a year ago), we talked, but e…
Great story. What was that startup oriented fan pages you mentioned?
Different idea: If you have an interest into stock markets/business in general, look into stock market trading robots, you don’t need developers, cofounders or customers... I think it is the perfect life style business model...
Different idea: If you have an interest into stock markets/business in general, look into stock market trading robots, you don’t need developers, cofounders or customers... I think it is the perfect life style business model...
Sounds interesting for sure. Can you provide any direction on where a dev could start reading up on such things?
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Sounds interesting for sure. Can you provide any direction on where a dev could start reading up on such things?
This is a classical AI/ML problem if you will, so the best approach is to get as much data as you can and start back testing any trading idea you can come up with, until you find one that will work for you, after that , the automation portion is easy, every discount brokers offers an API for the orders execution...
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This is a classical AI/ML problem if you will, so the best approach is to get as much data as you can and start back testing any trading idea you can come up with, until you find one that will work for you, after that , the automation portion is easy, every discount brokers offers an API for the orders execution...
Do you believe this is approachable by a developer without significant ML experience, nor trading experience, but with significant motivation?