Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?
I just stumbled upon an old Ask HN with the same topic from 2010 and I thought this could be useful to resurrect.
You should probably mention what you are working on, where you are located, what stage you are in, who you are looking for, what you can bring to the table and a way to contact you.
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[ 0.18 ms ] story [ 374 ms ] threadWanted to evolve this idea into a go-to platform for knowledge workers. (A second brain for the content)
Located in India, currently looking for a partner.
Also, wanted to share all my research on various markets, opportunities, tools.
That can help us uncover better opportunities together.
Let's connect on Twitter! @notoriousarun
We support public URL's (One-tab, Toby, Notion, Google-Docs, Twitter-Threads, Evernote, DropBox, Website Links)
let's have a Zoom?
Goal is to build a opensource headless cms (did a show hn quite some time ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17357616 )
Recently built one of the end user product https://github.com/daptin/dadadash/ (will do a show hn soon)
Plan is to keep the cms opensource/free and monetize the products built on top of it
Located in India (mostly irrelevant imo)
Looking for someone with strong vision/execution on the non-tech side. My contact details in repo
Currently running a closed beta with 50 ish registered users. Looking for a co-founder to help continue development of the apps. iOS and/or Android experience would be great!
Located in eastern Canada. If interested, feel free to email me at jsmith@hey.com :)
Link here -> http://relar.app
Funny enough I'm looking for a developer too for my app about vinyl records, posted here too.
Ah, thanks!
Currently using YouTube music, and its pretty good, except for one annoying bug that drives me crazy.
Trying to solve the problem of discovery and real-time communication for the live TV community in a fun and interesting way.
Currently on iOS and Android. Built on React-Native (Typescript) using Scala/Akka on the backend.
Looking for someone in marketing to own user acquisition, social media strategy, influencer outreach (podcasting primarily), etc.
Also open to a co-technical cofounder with either extensive RN/Typescript or Scala/Akka (cluster, persistence, etc) experience.
Contact details in my profile if interested.
It's an app for vinyl record lovers currently live in the App Store with over 3000 downloads, daily usage and downloads and that has been featured in many music related websites such as Resident Advisor, Dj Mag, Mix Mag and many others.
Currently the use case is limited, but I've been working on new features and ideas that I'd be interested in discussing with a potential co-founder.
The vinyl record market is bigger than it seems (https://www.businessinsider.com/americans-spending-vinyl-rec... — sales in this article are based only on US and without all the used market, which is huge) and currently the only player in the game is https://www.discogs.com
If you're interested, or know anyone who might be, contact me at filippo@discofm.co
Swymm has two components: the wiki-like public database of history, and a freemium* advanced timeline tool (compare to i.e. Aeon Timeline) for writers, planners, law enforcement and more to lay out beautiful interactive timelines. (* Pricing model up for debate) Unlike Aeon Timeline and all others, Swymm is cloud-based, multi-user, shareable, and leverages Swymm's database of public history that can be easily imported into your personal timelines.
Located in NYC, closed beta, looking for a CTO. I have done all the design and development so far but I would like a CTO to take over development so I can focus on product and marketing, though I expect to also continue contributing to dev. @t3db0t on Twitter.
Looking for a partner who is great at marketing/sales or has connections to businesses which can benefit from this SaaS.
I can be reached via support@pdf2qrcode.com
Andrew here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/agconti/). I'm the founder of Reactive Streaming, (https://www.reactive-streaming.com), a platform as a service that enables product and growth teams to create interactive live experiences through our easy to use APIs. We make it easy for you to build a live experience by taking care of the foundational live streaming technical challenges so you can focus on what differentiates your product.
- we have the fastest live video in the market, thanks to our propriety live streaming process.
- our interaction services, (a BAAS), lets you create deeply engaging visceral experiences with ease.
Want the skinny on what we offer? Here is a video: https://www.reactive-streaming.com/product-demo/
I'm located in NYC and I'm looking for a co-founder with deep sales and marketing experience. If you're interested, please reach out to me on LinkedIn!
I just launched https://noisycamp.com, an AirBnb for Musicians.
I'm trying to make it easier for music studio owners and musicians to reserve, pay and manage their practice spaces.
I just released the first version of the web app, and I'm starting to reach studio owners to create a base inventory of studios.
I'm looking for someone with strong sales and product skills, able to help me developing the business side of the project.
curbd.app is a MVP product I’ve been messing around with. Not sure if it’s got legs, though.
Also have this concept app that’s the anti-Amazon app. It’s an app that lists all local stores inventory/pricing that consumers can use to one stop shop brick and mortar. Haven’t built that MVP yet.
If you can’t tell, my passion is helping SMB owners compete with the bigger players. If this is your passion too, I would love to talk.
My info is in my profile.
This has been tried many times here in Germany with little success :(
Also helpful would be a browser plugin (or something) that would allow me to find the product on Amazon and see if it's available locally. I do this with books all the time (find on Amazon, find the ISBN number, and the go put it into the local bookstore website). The local bookstore also does local deliveries.
I like the idea of doing it as a browser extension, definitely useful to nudge people out of their naughty Amazon habit ;).
Thanks for the input!
If you list everyone's inventory with one-click ordering (assuming that order fulfillment is solved somehow), it is going to be an immediate race to the bottom on pricing, perhaps accelerated by arbitrageurs. Consumers will initially be happy, until service suffers, but vendors will be hit hard on margins.
One niche where I could see such an app succeeding: less-urban areas. In the past year or so, Amazon has neglected my parents' market in the college town of Blacksburg VA. My Dad broke his computer mouse over the weekend; while I could get one in hours via Amazon here in Seattle, the earliest delivery Amazon offered via Prime on Monday was Friday, with no option to pay more for faster delivery. I guarantee that there are hundreds of computer mice in existing store inventory within an hour's drive.
Interesting point on rural areas- I’m also in the same boat. Amazon only delivers USPS, and any package that won’t fit in my mailbox has to be collected at the post office 10+ miles away. It always adds a day of transit and a drive. There are times where I would pay for same day delivery. There are times where I wouldn’t mind driving to shop X in town and picking it up myself.
Thanks for the input!
This race-to-the-bottom rhetoric seems like a pessimistic view blocking actual opportunity; as we've seen with any marketplace (e.g., amazon, doordash, walmart, shopify) it's a balance...
I had 2 ideas to try and overcome the poor inventory system problem::
- at first, SMB would manually input their inventory into the app, kind of like an eBay listing. Eventually, we’d build integrations to common POS.
- alternatively, you could allow consumers to select a category+text box entry of what they’re looking for. When submitted, businesses listed in that category would get pinged. If they have what the customer wants they could click to let them know. Perhaps with 2 way messaging.
Thanks for the input though! Encouraging to hear this has worked for others before.
1) fake review/counterfeit problem 2) support mom and pop
Google Shopping is trying to go after the "amazon prime for the rest of the internet", which seems like a good idea.
On 2), One thing to do would be to do what doordash did, just go to 50 mom and pop retail stores in one region and talk to them. see what their problems actually are.
The fake review/counterfeit goods problem is actually pretty hard to solve, but it's interesting because it's not on amazon's top 3 problems list, so you could disintermediate. Ways to solve it that may be businesses: machine learning, limiting manufacture geo's, relying on video product reviews with trusted influencers, tracking PE acquisitions as a proxy for brand deterioration, reading negative reviews first, etc.
Re: talking to users first - 100%! I am fairly active in my community and talk with local business owners all the time. This is where I got the idea in the first place ;). Agreed though that doing this formally and generating some user stories before any development could help focus MVP.
Negative review is definitely a big problem and I'm not an expert on that topic, at all ;). If such an app were to have a review system it would be imperative to ensure the trust-worthiness of reviews shown to users.
Though, I'm not sure you would need reviews at first, at all. I generally trust most of what I buy from a given shop X... I trust their purchasing and supply chain departments to have done the research for me. I never think twice about buying X electronic from Target, for example, wondering if that night light for my son's room is going to combust. One of the benefits of brick and mortar, I suppose.
Doordash put up menus on a website and started delivering orders by hand.
I guess I was alluding to the needed(?) network effect for such an app to become popular with consumers.
For me to have this app on my phone as a consumer it would have to have 80% of the local shops I frequent listed.
let's say it is 80, can you imagine a way to get 80% of the supply (stores) onto this platform? Or, could you chart a path to get to x% supply after y weeks?
idea 1: fake it, just list stores and items on a website and find out a way to get users to see it without paying for ads
idea 2: sign stores up one by one, using some interview-derived value proposition, and get your friends to help onboarding new stores, challenge them to sign up x% more stores per week
idea 3: post about it on hn :(
I think this all warrants more investigation!
https://archive.harlanji.com/2019-08-26-demos/
I picture holding something like 5% equity of a B2B SaaS/on-prem based company and exiting around Series B with a team of successors after some years.
I’m located in San Francisco, can commute and maybe relocate to Santa Clara or Cruz or East Bay.
My IT situation is weak so contact will seem flaky... I’m working on it.
Biz@harlanji.com
Sucks that the site is down at the moment, but if you would like to help me build a futuristic take on how science could be improved drop me an email.
Also, if you like/work on science in general, get in touch, there's plenty to do!
I've had plans to take this property and use it as a proof of concept for a platform that will enable anyone to create this kind of photo sharing community. Kind of like a wordpress for photo sharing communities.
I'm currently busy with other projects, but If I can find the right person that can take my vision and run with it, I'd be willing to throw some serious resources into this.
I'm basically looking for a full-stack developer who can also do product development, OR a designer who can handle the product development and work with a remote developer.
If you're interested, email me at gregg@webstartup.com and tell me a bit about yourself, or reply here for any questions.
I’m looking for a Designer for a pet building a SaaS solutions to integrate design more into development, get in contact with me if you want to know more.
I’m also looking to someone to invest part time hours to build services that can create passive income together, a sort of business pattern of MVPs.
I'm good at tech, and can lead the development but need non-techie person who'd do promotions, raise awareness, etc
Someone who finds a way to flip things around: turn something boring into something fun.
Free entry level digital download e-commerce shops for upstarts and small business.
I'm currently bootstrapping and moving to the marketing and sales phase of Go-to-market.
The MVP is finished but need to build out the sales funnel and pricing.
Currently in need of landing pages for target markets (HTML/CSS/copy writing).
Built with Python, Pyramid, SQLAlchemy
Remote USA
Details in my profile on how to connect, feel free to ask questions here too.
https://www.makepostsell.com