Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder? (July 2021)
Building on the "Who is Hiring?" threads, here comes a monthly thread for folks who are in search of a co-founder. Let people know what you are building and what you are looking for in a co-founder.
Please state the location and include REMOTE if you are open to building a company remotely. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are the founder (or one of the co-founders) of the startup. No recruiting firms, venture builders, or job boards. Only one post per company (how many co-founders can one look for anyway). Please explain on a high level what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to these posts telling people why their idea won't work. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in committing yourself to a co-founder role. No "CTO for hire" companies!
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 170 ms ] threadWe have worked on this project for 5 years, We have developed 3D VR models as well as 3d printed several working prototypes.
We have this product ready- we just need help with Marketing and Sales. Any experience with crowdfunding or manufacturing would also be key.
Also, If anyone is interest in playtesting, please let me know.
email: Puzzle AT free DOT TV
If you're not having any luck, consider MassLight.
MassLight offers software development, and capital (up to $100,000USD) in exchange for equity. A whole team to build your product, they often take CTO roles too.
Take a look at their website: www.masslight.com
REMOTE, USA only.
https://sw.ink
I'm working on better QR codes. I think current QR codes suck because first of all you don't know what they go to by looking at them, so I embed a link preview into my QR codes' patterns.
I'm also working on creating and embedding apps so instead of just scanning a QR code and getting a PDF of the menu, you could order food, chat with wait staff, join a queue, etc. etc.
I need a more sales/marketing oriented cofounder, it isn't my strong suit.
Email -> rob at sw.ink
but in the last 2-3 years I find myself a different head-space. I no longer need the validation for my own ego to have others work on "my idea".
Instead I am passively keeping my eyes peeled for potential products that are run by people I have chemistry with, and where I can bring value, maybe even for free (initially). Great if it turns into more down the road.
And some feeling tells me I probably am not the first person who reaches that point/conclusion in life. HN would be exactly the place for it considering angel sites are full of marketers and people with short attention spans, and/or perhaps worse.
at a minimum it shows everyone who is posting here, how many other people are searching. and maybe some good comes from that too.
I'm looking for a co-founder with elixir and strong front-end experience or product and sales experience. Technical preference for now. If you like mycology and working with Neo4J feel free to drop a line!
The product I've been working on is intended for the pharma space and somewhat similar to Benchling but targeting a very specific agricultural niche. I've yet to start looking for institutional investment, but now that covid is over I have the bandwidth and drive to take this product full-time!
please email hydrated chia AT gmail DOT com
Saying that Covid is over is such a slap in the face to all those people still dying from it in countries that don't have the resources or access to vaccines like some countries do.
We, at Valinor Earth, are building climate intelligence tools and data for profit and sustainability. Our current focus is Food - production, its transportation, and consumption.
My co-founder is super connected and we are land-grabbing really fast but yet to be revenue positive.
My official email is brajeshwar@valinor.earth and we are geographies agnostic team.
On a different note, Y Combinator has a Co-Founder matching[1] platform on its StartupSchool. Pretty interesting people there.
1. https://www.startupschool.org/posts/39814
Mitta provides methods to crawl, index, tag, filter and search various information over time.
My thoughts are that I will continue to work on this over the coming months to explore a few use cases for managing imagery for ML based business models, including analysis for time series data and bookmarking, such as we did at Loggly with system logs.
A versatile product oriented cofounder who codes would be useful in taking this proof of concept to market.
Email kordless AT Gmails.
I am looking for a co-founder who would ideally be the CEO, who thinks long-term and wants to build solutions to empower people. I am happy to have a chat or call. Timezone IST at the moment. I have a couple ideas (1) but I am open to figuring out other ideas too.
I am interested in Marketplaces, (omni-channel/e) Commerce, Data exploration, No-code, Healthcare. But I place impact over profit and believe that profit comes to great products. Having mental issues, I have been focusing on my work routine since last year. I am open about my mental struggles; am aware of some things that work, but it is still a learning process.
1. Data exploration: https://dwata.com
Email: My full name (written above, no space in between) at that email domain of Google.
I'm building a "Team Collaboration" app for SMEs. I run a few small businesses in Kerala, mostly in wholesale and retail. The product I'm building is to address the problems I'm facing as a small business owner.
Will email you.
I've created a Transactional Email provider (competitor to mailgun, postmark, SES etc.) https://ohmysmtp.com
We have some traction, with a growing customer base.
I'm looking for someone to help keep development moving at pace (specifically Rails, node.js/typescript + our OSS language integrations e.g. PHP, Python, Go), help with scaling out our servers, and drive more Developer-oriented marketing.
Email the support directly or reply here and I'll pick it up.
I'm currently working solo on https://codeamigo.dev/.
I've got some positive feedback from the community here in the past (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26464998). I'm trying to grow the user base to generate some content/lessons more organically.
I'm looking for someone who is passionate about e-learning, design, and tech.
The cooperative will have a strong free software focus, equal salaries, and ownership=membership.
The aim is to start with freelancing to reduce risk, and then develop more product-like projects. Let's see if we can make the social side work.
Email in my profile.
With self-governance included in the package, it's not imposible to turn into another Framasoft in the long term.
Hi! I'm Adithya from Berlin. I've been building a job board for half a year and it's doing decently. I'm looking for a co-founder on the marketing and sales side.
It would be great if you're based in Berlin/Germany but remote is also good.
I've come up with several useful sections like hiring without whiteboard (1), four day weeks (2) etc. that has decent organic traffic.
Post mentions no job boards, hopefully that's only applicable to advertisements and not in this case.
Email is on the imprint on the website.
1 - https://arbeitnow.com/hiring-without-whiteboard
2 - https://arbeitnow.com/four-day-week-jobs
The industry has copied its print business models and simply put it content online. The UX, editorial operations, pricing models, all stuck in the past. For example, the choice of content is chosen at firm level and all lawyers have exactly same set of content. There is no content ratings and review systems in the software so publishers are missing an easy and cheap way to get valuable data which would aid in optimising content.
The solution I've specced caters for curating crowd-sourced content from practitioners (and providing them leads and publicity via their content in return).
(This is my secondary mail as I don’t want to share my personal one on public thread)
https://github.com/haael/white-box-fapkc
I'm building a Virtual Tabletop for RPGs: https://bonfiretabletop.com
I have a decent MVP online with a few active users, slowly getting out of the dark when it comes to awareness, primarily looking for someone with sales/marketing skills, social media/brand awareness, technical skills are also welcome. I'm an okay developer and improving (this project taught me a lot).
Email > contact AT bonfiretabletop dot com
I'm a technical guy, founder of Status Machine (https://statusmachine.com/), a pre-seed, pre-traction company that's building a dashboard (see the website for an example) for companies that manage many websites and need to see an overview of their status. Status = up or not, secure or not, etc.
I plan to integrate with as many tools as possible via webhooks and APIs.
I'm not sure what type of co-founder that I need. So feel free to get in touch, even if you are not sure either what you could bring to the company.
Email: julien @ the domain cited above.
Looking for co-founder(s) in area ASIC Design/Verification/Tooling/Services, preferrably with good market understanding. I've have a chunk of experience in the industry both as designer & verificator and was trying to throw multiple ideas to start something own in that industry, but nothing sticks so far. Have deep understanding of VPI, how simulators and backend (synthesis and STA) work, so tooling may also be an option. Would also opt for a full turnkey SoC, if a good market niche is found.
mail me: asic (dot) rebels (at) gmail (dot) com
Looking for a co-founder for a project in edutainment space. Project is at an ideation phase, so the idea is still taking shape.
Looking for someone with C/C++, Unity and AR/VR/MR/XR experience or someone who has the confidence to ramp-up and excited to work in this area.
I have a tech background(C/C++, mobile, desktop and servers, some game porting and 2D graphics experience, etc)
email id: eWMuY29mb3VuZGVyLm1hdGNoQGdtYWlsLmNvbQo=
base64, I like it
Very early stages, working on a no code product for that generates websites from video content. NLP/machine learning/React/Django/Airflow. Currently working as an engineer at a large tech company til I get this off the ground. Have a past minor startup success. Need a highly technical cofounder.
I'm building a virtual coworking platform designed to help independent remote workers stay focused and accountable while building community and having fun during the work day. https://focusparty.com
It's currently myself (design & product) and another technical founder who have just gotten started. We're looking for a more senior-level CTO to join us to accelerate development and plan for the future.
We've been working on this for only a few weeks together and already have a few awesome communities signed up to pilot the closed-beta, which means instant-users the moment we launch.
If interested, please email steffan at focusparty dot com. :)
I’m building a product to replace Google Photos/Drive/Contacts for people who won’t/can’t store their data in the cloud. Self-hosting is currently a pain with poor UX and more worries about security and backups than most people want to deal with. I’m well on my way to creating an MVP proving that an alternative is possible, and just as easy and sleek as mainstream solutions.
I'm a sw/systems architect with professional experience in consumer electronics, and have the ability to develop the product on my own if need be.
Email: username @ gmail
The goal of Couchmate (https://couchmate.com) is to build the future of social interaction and community around live TV where current platforms (namely Twitter) have failed. Couchmate creates real-time, ephemeral chat rooms for every single live show across every provider in the USA and Canada, currently.
Looking for a co-founder whose strong in Marketing, brand building, growing social media accounts and has some graphic design chops.
I'm owning the entire engineering side of the company and have already built the apps and backend to scale up quickly.
Would love to connect if you're interested, hit me up. Email in bio.
Ruby on Rails | React | HTML5 Canvas (for the poker table) | Postgres | AWS (Lambda, Kinesis, Athena, SQS, etc.)
Clubs Poker (https://clubspoker.com) makes it dead simple to play poker with your friends for fun. We’re going to make poker look more like a social game (think Fortnite) and less like a casino. Sound interesting?
Clubs is currently hosting around 1,000 poker games/month and avg growth is 100% month over month. We recently closed a round of funding led by Village Global, along with other angel investors and professional poker players.
About me: Former poker player, PM for 10 years, now CEO at Clubs Poker.
To apply, email me at taylor [at] clubspoker.com, mentioning this post in HN & a description of why you think you'd be a good fit. You should have noteworthy full-stack experience under your belt already.
https://angel.co/company/clubs-poker/jobs/1457533-cto-lead-e...
I figure that would be your biggest comparison/competition.