It seems like this should be a standard monthly post on the first of the month just like Who's Hiring & Who Wants to Be Hired.
Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?
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Re: Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?
#102I have been working on a card game as a side project since mid 2018 that in my opinion plays better than Hearthstone and Magic: https://thespacewar.com/
Looking for a partner really like these kind of games that can take care of the marketing of the game and help push the project forward. Also maybe that can do technical work on the online browser version (Vue/Node). The online version is playable (alpha) and maybe 80% complete, try as guest here https://play.thespacewar.com/
Contact me either on Discord https://discord.gg/tv3DXqj or info...thespacewar.com if you have any interest at all :)
Re: Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?
#103I'm Alex, I'm currently building Infra Works. We make it easy for skilled trade businesses to find, vet, and develop great employees.
Most skilled trade businesses (HVAC, electricians, plumbers) are bad at recruiting and training employees. More than half don't have training programs. 3 out of 4 don't find the internet to be an effective way to find skilled talent. Here is what the hiring/training process at a company I spoke with looks like:
- Post job on craigslist
- Hope candidate has some experience or mechanical aptitude
- Rely on one of their more experienced employees to teach new employees everything while on-the-job
Every business owner I've spoken with has listed difficulty in finding skilled talent as their biggest problem. Our web platform gives businesses access to pre-screened talent and enables them to easily build a world-class, internal training program.
I previously led product/bd at LendEDU (YC W16). I'm a self-taught programmer with a strong background in SEO and sales. I'm looking for a co-founder with a technical background to help me build out our platform and/or a sales/bd/product background to help me develop strategy/GTM. If you have neither, but are interested in solving this problem - I'd love to talk to you as well.
alex at infraschool dot co
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#104I started a project during the lockdown in March and eventually want to launch and make it a self-sustaining side project. I recently filed paperwork to form an LLC (my first) in anticipation of launching and perhaps trying my hand at fundraising on Kickstarter or elsewhere.
The project is called Learn with Grok (https://github.com/GrokApp/learn-with-grok) and is a language learning application. Unlike existing applications, Grok is focused on people who have already studied a foreign language for years and are past beginner level content. Learn with Grok is focused on Critical Reading Skills and will tailor short story content to you at your proficiency level after taking a placement test. The more you read and do well on the quiz at the end of the short story, the more difficult content you can work towards to achieve mastery (or Grok!) a new language. You can hear what sentences sound like and see a translation on the spot if you struggle comprehending a sentence. Challenge yourself with a little content everyday.
This project is pre-launch and my first real try at creating a business. I work full-time and work on this nights and weekends while also balancing a machine learning grad program.
Re: Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?
#105It seems like this should be a standard monthly post on the first of the month just like Who's Hiring & Who Wants to Be Hired.
I have had co-founders on businesses and none of them ever worked out. It might just be me, but I have a hard time being motivated to really go through the hard stuff if I think someone else is a backstop or will do it for me.
My business that I started and built entirely alone is by far and away the most successful one and has made me a multimillionaire.
Whenever anyone asks me, I always recommend people to start a business on their own and just grind it out.
Re: Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?
#106I'm working on an app to create custom notebook layouts by drag-and-drop graphical widgets with the option to print on demand the result: https://notebookeditor.com/
I have a lot of ideas on how to improve it and I think there are many use cases, especially for creating custom educational materials. But I haven't found the product market fit until now and I don't have a clear plan on how to monetise it.
The 'front-end' product is 80% done but there is no 'back-end' yet - I'm still thinking if I should do it as saas or a standalone desktop/mobile app.
If interested, contact me at: alex @ myhnusername .com
PS. some of the images I used on the website are copyrighted and I didn't ask for permission or give credit. Sorry! I'll fix it asap.
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#107I am looking for a co-founder to help scale side-projects with experts
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#108I'm not actively searching for one. Especially, since I have the feeling I'm not an easy person to work with and finding a co-founder that fits would be sheer luck, haha.
But I'm currently planning to build a SaaS product, that I want to turn into a company, if it works out.
"Slack for microblogging" or "Twitter for companies", depending on the perspective. Making asynchronous company communication better.
I'm a self-employed dev consultant and technical writer from Germany, who makes most of his money with tech blogging right now. I'm more on the bootstrapping side of things and not too big fan of VC money.
The co-founder in spe should fill my skill gaps (i.e. being are more business focused person, someone like a COO maybe?) but have enough overlap that we understand each other. Being a EU citizen is also good, I guess.
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#109Howdy - I may be too early to post here as I'm really more interested in a thought partner who has the potential to become a cofounder in ~1yr+ if we decide to launch something. My background is mainly in sales and growth (early at Gigster, ran a venture for Rocket Internet in Berlin, ran a team for the Estonian govt's e-Residency project, Fellow for NYC CTO's Office). I'm really interested in tech in the government…
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Re: Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?
#110I have been working on a card game as a side project since mid 2018 that in my opinion plays better than Hearthstone and Magic: https://thespacewar.com/ Looking for a partner really like these kind of games that can take care of the marketing of the game and help push the project forward. Also maybe that can do technical work on the online browser version (Vue/Node). The online version is playable (alpha) and maybe 8…
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