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Alright, how about an honest-to-goodness new search engine? I've been working on this piecemeal for a while. I want a completely new alternative in the search space. I think a lot of other people do too. I want to focus on highly personalized results from personal data sets: ingest people's bookmarks, crawl them, crawl their second-order links, and so on. I want discussions from HN, Reddit, and other publicly-accessi…
I have an early prototype of a site that allows people to chain together reasoning in a visual sense, which also propagates truth so that people can know if a conclusion is asserted to be valid/proven. This contrasts from the current definition of "argument mapping", and platforms like Kialo, in that it's more constructive, with logical machinery underpinning it. For instance, if someone has a conclusion that "Earth'…
Just want to say that this is a wild idea and I really like it. I don't know how viable it is but it's definitely interesting.
I've been working on a b2b SaaS side project in the computerized maintenance management space for the past ~4 years ( https://salientforms.com ). Revenue is great for a side project, however I'd like to build the feature set out to appeal to more clients, and generally do business development. My background is compsci/software/hardware engineering, as well as the practical and physical side of how this sort of produc…
What size companies are you targeting?
(In a previous life -- um, 24 years ago -- I built a prototype for an Australian mining company using a Microsoft Access-based master database to coordinate safety inspections with a primitive pen-based handheld computer. At the time it was leading edge... even got invited to presenting tutorials on it at the NOSH 1997 conference in South Africa.)
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none yet | sf bay area | ideation | all
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Me: Semi-technical generalist with spikes in business, finance, & product. Best at 0 -> 1. Lots of business experience but able to understand and help out with technical work. Currently working at a startup in the fintech space.
Looking for: Working through a few ideas in fintech and digital transformation if anyone out there is kicking around similar thoughts and wants to chat. Especially interested in building API-driven tools that make difficult things possible and simple. Magical user experiences, mostly B2B.
Still open to chatting or helping out if you are working on other interesting things and need product feedback or help with the business side.
I'm up for brainstorming during a quick coffee chat or building a longer term relationship if the fit is good: accountability or sounding board check-ins, consulting, or co-founding if we really hit it off.
Contact: hnfintech@gmail.com
I wouldn't say I am looking for a co-founder, but am open to connecting to see who is out there that may have an interest in what I have been working on, and start a dialogue.
So, it's been around 6 years now, that I have been working on a startup system that guides founders from initial idea to launch, early traction, problem-solution fit. At this point if you are thinking do you really want to follow the system of someone who has taken 6 years, I'll have to smirk and note your somewhat valid point.
It took 4 years of working with founders, and investors, to get the initial framework sorted out, which I made in Excel. I took another year to go through the framework again, and remake part of it in Access. Evidently I have a thing for MS. I released the Access version with the first few steps just here actually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22445660
Got around 120-ish users, got the feedback, etc, etc, and have been going through the framework again, and working on MVP v3. Currently, I am redesigning the UI, polishing various content, few other bits and bobs.
In terms of what I bring to the table: 24-25 years marketing and sales, 11-ish years working with startups, 4-5 years investor portfolio support (family offices and a couple of VC's), investor relations, investor readiness, scout for a few VC's, etc, etc.
I should state I have another startup that has been running for 3 ish years, and am also working on a growth system as well. I shall leave you with a link to a page that shows where I stand on some issues pertaining to startups: https://startizer.com/problems-with-startup-material
On a different note, I see a fair few founders looking to have a chat about their MVP, about early adopters, about launching, etc, etc. Happy to have a chat, don't want anything in return.
Oh, one last thing, at no point will I be looking for outside investment, not looking to go big or go home, am already stuck at home as it is.
Cheers, Ace.
Edit: Sheesh, contact details; ace(at)startizer.com
For the last couple of months we've actually been working on a co-founder matching tool through Startup School. It's still an early alpha, but some members of our community have already found it very helpful. We've taken inspiration from online dating sites for some of the mechanics, but of course adapted the questions to expose the factors that we've found are most useful in a co-founder search.
If you'd like to give the service a try, create a profile on startupschool.org (it doesn't matter whether you choose the "active founder" or "future founder" track for this purpose) and then visit https://www.startupschool.org/cofounder_matching_profile
Feel free to check it out! If you have any user feedback, you can let me know directly at kyle@ycombinator.com
Hi, I'm Dustin, and I've been working on abstreet.org for about ~2.5 years to fight car dependency in cities. Aiming to explore and advocate for short-term transportation changes like creating low-traffic neighborhoods and fleshing out bike and bus networks, and moonshot ideas like congestion charging zones in city centers, superblocks, and zoning changes. Targeting the general public, rather than planners who've alr…
Hi Dustin! I saw your work on Hacker News last year and I forwarded it to a colleague of mine working in the academic side of Transportation Engineering. They found your work interesting and complemented on your visualizations. If I could suggest something, it might be useful to reach out to professors at your local university whose research interests coincides with your software's application (you can shop around as…
Wow, thanks for the detailed ideas! I've resisted joining academia myself, but that shouldn't prevent finding partners there. Recently I started working with 3 transportation/civil engineering professors, and their expertise is already helping to fill some gaps with the project. I'll try more aggressively looking for more academics to loop in. UW in Seattle almost certainly has this sort of meet-and-greet; I'll poke around and see if they have anything happening online these days.
Thanks again! -Dustin
I'm Anieke Lamers, Amsterdam based and am looking for a technical cofounder. If you know anyone who is interested, please share this link: https://www.notion.so/Tech-or-Product-oriented-cofounder-opp... Also feel free to like/share it on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/peekabond_tech-or-product-ori... About me: playful, eager, people-oriented hustler with 8+ years experience in investing in B2C and impactful…
Looking for a co-founder comfortable with control engineering + as enthusiastic about building a new robotics co. as I am.
London, UK
Contact: thiago{at}zoarobotics.com. Look me up on linkedin for details.
I'm a data science and PM generalist with experience in product, finance and market research teams. I have 8 years of experience in software, working on data management and business intelligence platforms. I’ve spent the past 3 years in an enterprise SaaS company and the problem space has gotten old for me.
I'm especially interested in building data products, AI/ML, enterprise software, financial services and/or health & fitness services. I recently completed YC’s Future Founders course with an idea for a data discovery platform. I’m in the customer research stage and have not started building yet. I'm open to other ideas and missions as well.
I'm an intermediate coder (Python) and have built simple applications. I would prefer working with a technical co-founder, but open to non-technical co-founders if our interests and skills match. I'm willing to code as needed to develop the product. I would do well working on the business and PM side.
I'm very collaborative, analytical and pragmatic. Reach out and we can chat? lgenung at gmail