Freelance Co-Founder for Mobile Web Startup

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Hello Folks

I love products and love designing them. I believe that UX is the most important part of any contemporary web application. Products should be created out of need and not ideating in a vacuum. Smart startups are created on products that emerge from features that were once just 'itches' or random ideas.

I have one such idea. It arose out of a basic need for me and a dear friend of mine. We both love our iPhones but seldom agree on the apps to get. So we only had one common platform between us - The Mobile Web

Instead of raising a round of funding, I decided to build something first, so sketched out what the solution might look like. Showed it to a sample of our common friends & cleaned up the user flows till everybody 'got it'. Then I went about designing it right and tidying up things. We put our heads together and figured out the least amount of things to do to test it - Alpha Specifications.

We got another friend of mine to write some code using a mobile web framework that made sense for such a build. In 5 days, we were using our first iteration. It worked, it was wonky, but it worked. In 15 days, our Alpha 'just worked'.

Now, I want to take this to the next step. I want to work with a potential co-founder who develops for a living. So, if you get :

    Startup level rapid development
    Focusing on User Experience to win over users
    Ten Real Users > 10,000 pageviews
    Weekly feature releases using

    LAMP
    Node
    Socket
    Mongo/Redis
    HTML 5
    PSD/JPG -> XHTML
    Google Analytics
    Slicehost

Then, let's talk.

I am looking for somebody who can commit 90 days. I will guarantee the following:

    100 real/active users for our product
    $1,000 per month
    $2,000 bonus at the end of the contract, if all = well

If this goes well, we can sit down and negotiate how you would want to proceed. I am open to paying you at a higher rate or doling out real equity in a real product startup.

I am 100% self-funded and I have done this before, I know what it takes to actually ship products to real people. I am more than willing to pay more, but I want to know that this is a decent idea and have a solid technology partner who can bring it to life. It takes about 60-90 to release an early-stage product and finesse things well enough for end-users.

I am not going to be the 'right fit' for most on here; that's good! I want that one person who just gets it - if that's you, I assure you I will do whatever it takes to make this the best product developing experience of your career so far.

Thank you for reading.

p.s. I love this community.

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