Show HN: I made a simple platform to find founders and buy side-projects
Hi Guys,
I got overwhelming support and feedback from my last post about secondfounder.com but still, I felt the need of connecting founders together so that they can together buy a side project. It's very often when a non-technical founder buys a project they have to find a technical founder to take that project further.
Today I have implemented this feature in secondfounder.com
Link: https://secondfounder.com/find-founder
Your feedback is always welcome.
Thanks
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 55.6 ms ] thread1. People might be more inclined to be interested in applying to be a co-founder if they can actually read the information on the founder/company before applying. However, currently there is a login barrier to seeing that information which may cause some people to decide it isn't worth it and leave the website without looking.
2. Add an easy way to close the login modal. Currently the only way I found was th e back button and that isn't a good solution for the reason in #3
3. Don't hijack the user's history and take control over the back button, it is very user un-friendly
yes, so much this. not as worse as hijacking my scrolling, but this comes second
Edit: OP stopped responding and it doesn't seem like anybody made it past the login-gate. If someone from the future is reading this, please take note, this is not the way to demo.
People don't want to create an account just to view things.
More broadly is there a market for side projects? I could understand someone's side project expanding to the point they need to bring someone else on board (which is what the name implies to me). It seems to me that if the founder is selling its probably because there isn't money in it. Or at least I would be concerned that the bulk of sales are for that reason rather than because the founder has another job or something.
If you take open source software or some white label solution and sell it, you're a founder.
If a company goes bankrupt, you buy the assets and then launch a new company. Founder.
If they already had a general release of product or service. I wouldn't consider them a founder if they joined afterwards.
In my opinion Instagram sold a bit early[0], but coming from an app that existed merely as the first widely used iteration of phone-camera filters, I can't necessarily blame them. Who'd have thought that Instagram, and also Giphy to an extent had -any- form of business model or potential for profit? I sure didn't.
[0] - sidenote: (in the financial and growth sense, not the chronological sense)
I think you have heavily heavily discounted that the people building aren't the same people ready to make the same time and financial risks.
That site is doing two things: selling projects, and finding cofounders. These are two separate functions if it isn't clear. You can buy a project and find a co-founder, not buy into a project and be the co-founder with someone that has another job.
Yes. I'm always interested in cool security projects.
Two of the premium offerings are: • Contact directly with the founder through messages • Find and contact second co-founder
That seems like the entire reason anyone would use the app, am I wrong?
I guess I'll be hunting for something I can turn into a lifestyle business. Then I'll just roll these lifestyle businesses into riches!
I would have done this with one of my old companies years ago if this had existed. At the time I was making like 80k/year off of it for maybe 30 minutes of work a month. Now the market is gone, but still.
I'm using US AMEX which works fine on all other Stripe checkouts I use.
Could you please use a different card?