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apantel
Just a design comment: the animated line background takes away from the user experience. It doesn’t add.
freeone3000
The domain on the email clickback, https://click.convertkit-mail2.com/, literally doesn’t resolve for me.

EDIT: because I was using quad9 doh, and this domain is on their blocklist

dewey
Are you running pihole or some other tracking protection?
freeone3000
Ah, yes, thank you! It was being blocked by Quad9.
flappyeagle
Stuff like this always has negative selection effects unless there’s some aggressive vetting up front
leetrout
I have not used any of these services so I decided to give this one a shot. We'll see... they say every profile is vetted and I had to agree not to "sell my stuff".
dazh
What negative selection does it result in? For people that can't network to a co-founder themselves?
flappyeagle
Yes. Just about every reason you have for not being able to find a co-founder yourself is detrimental to being a founder
djbusby
Finding a cofounder is hard! Cheers for trying this type again. Are StartupWeekend still a thing? Way back (~2008) they were these "idea to revenue" folk would join, some would pitch, others would join teams then work over the weekend building. Get a chance to evaluate your peers in the game. And the time box adds pressure.
leetrout
They are still around in various places. But I do see more pitch competitions and such more than the game-jam style of making a group and working on something in the same room. I think Founders Forge in the Tri-Cities in East Tennessee still does them along with ETSU.

https://myfoundersforge.com/

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