If you can provide some details that’d be helpful. If you live in a larger city, you should also visit Meetups and the local tech and startup scenes. Finding a developer cofounder can be a real challenge.
A few suggestions:
- attend meetups, but not just one. Create a longer term relationship with those you would consider for this role. The likelihood of meeting the co-founder who completes the successful startup formula at a meetup is quite low. You're more likely to find this person in your existing network since that co-founder will also need to be capable of surviving the harsh peaks and valleys of the startup's lifecycle, together with you. Weak relationships are harder to maintain throughout this journey. There are, of course, exceptions.
- Evaluate tools that would allow you to build your product yourself. You'll be surprised at how far you can go with the tools available to non-technical founders.
- Consider hiring someone. A strong hire would create a working relationship and may end up being the best fit for the co-founder role. You might even get by with this as the long term arrangement.
- Be charismatic and open minded. You've probably already met your future co-founder.
I'm a developer myself and I'm currently looking for new projects to work on. I'm interested in hearing about your idea if you don't mind sharing it. You can email me at sanv725@hotmail.com
as a tech co-founder what convinced me to join my current co-founders was a prototype they build with bubble.is. It gave me confidence that they have at least some understanding of what it means to build a product.
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