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It would be helpful for you to provide details about yourself and your project. You are asking us for details about us and things we have worked on and it would be very useful for us to know such things about you.

At the moment, your post sounds a little like an application for a job where the company, location, salary, work conditions and industry are unknown. All we know is that we will work as a programmer or designer.

After looking at your HN profile I see you are a founder of villij and then a search on google revealed this is a startup with seed funding from techstars. Why not make it easier for prospective co-founders to find this information by including it in your post? It shows that you already have experience in launching a startup and could increase the number of responses you get.

Sorry for the confusion; kallena is a friend who saw my earlier tweet about this (http://twitter.com/kylebragger/status/16226804498) and posted it here.

Just to clarify, this isn't any kind of job posting for some stealth web startup. Rather, I am a technical founder keenly interested in knowing more about people like me, and trying to organize that data in a meaningful way.

I have taken your advice and added some more info about myself into the Google form.

Thanks for the reply.

i'd put this info on the survey's front page. i skipped filling it out because it didn't feel like a good idea, too light on details
Wouldn't people who are already founders / co-founders probably be too busy to take on any other projects? Or do you mean "has been a founder in the past" as opposed to "currently in the middle of founding something?"
Sorry for not being clear enough — it's not any kind of job post or "I need a cofounder" type thing. I'm a technical founder myself and interested in knowing others like me. The project I reference is/will be my attempt to make sense of the data I collect.
Is the data going to be made public? If I were to fill it in, knowing would be essential, and would affect what I typed! (primarily the last field)
Nope, it won't be made public.
Thanks. You may wish to make that explicit -- the label on the email field suggests that everything else will be public.
Ah, gotcha. That makes a lot more sense!