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Posted by u/whoisbuilding 4 years ago
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!

tbird24 · 4 years ago
Clubs Poker | seeking CTO | Remote (I'm based in NYC)

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...

exdsq · 4 years ago
I'm interested in poker and would definitely check out your app, but struggle to grasp the fortnite analogy. Is this related to how they've made social events like gigs possible within the game?

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bena · 4 years ago
What separates Clubs from just playing with friends over Tabletop Simulator?

I figure that would be your biggest comparison/competition.

kcorbitt · 4 years ago
Worth mentioning that as of today, YC is also publicly launching a (free) co-founder matching marketplace. (I'm on the team that built it, so would love any feedback on the platform as well!) :)

https://www.startupschool.org/cofounder-matching

stevengraham · 4 years ago
This is awesome.

Would love to see it featured in a "Launch" post, and perhaps featured more prominently as a permanent nav link.

IMO things like this bring balance back to HN being a place for thought exchange to spur creation - rather than just another reddit-like "let's react to the latest news URL posted".

kcorbitt · 4 years ago
We actually do have a "Tell HN" I posted an hour or so again. Looks like it's on the front page now! :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27750298

Glad you appreciate this; I think it's an important problem to solve!

Abishek_Muthian · 4 years ago
Congratulations on the launch Kyle!

I feel there's need-gap in solutions for finding a co-founder and Hope Co-Founder Matching addresses it.

P.S. I've added it to my curated list of startup tools - https://startuptoolchain.com .

mojuba · 4 years ago
Awesome!

Does the YC Startup School specifically target younger entrepreneurs, or is being 50+ Okay here?

kcorbitt · 4 years ago
There's nothing in the program or community that's directed towards people of a specific age! We don't collect demographic information, but based on my interactions with the community we definitely have lots of 50+ entrepreneurs on the platform.
adithyasrin · 4 years ago
Just signed up. If you save your profile without a last name, it turns into null.
kcorbitt · 4 years ago
Hmm, interesting. Will look into that! In the meantime, I assume if you edit your profile to add something to the last name field, it fixes the issue?

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PianoGym · 4 years ago
Piano Gym | Seeking Software Engineers/Business Partners | Remote (Based in Seattle)

Please see our introduction video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faxNDhOjlh4

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Piano Gym is a free website where anyone can use a real Piano to learn music theory and performance in the context of actual sheet music. It uses a myriad of flash card tools to teach complex topics, and all of it is managed for you by Piano Gym using spaced repetition. You just have to show up and do your reps!

Piano Gym provides courses and lessons using Piano methods books like The Mayron Cole Piano Method. However educators and learners can also create their own content to build material they may want to focus on instead. We love supporting teachers and learners together!

The overall goal is to support learners in completing their daily reps through deliberate practice while having fun!

Come and do your reps at Piano Gym! We’ll be spotting you!

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I am looking for team members who believe in the dream product. This will not be paid, but eventually may be revenue generating. We have a patreon here right now: https://patreon.com/PianoGym

I need someone who can execute technically.

I need someone who can execute in a business management capacity.

Right now my bandwidth is limited and Piano Gym is finally coming out of stealth. I need someone who can help deliver milestones and help create a community of learners who want to grow with our platform.

Please contact us through our social media or at `DoYourReps@PianoGym.com`

apineda · 4 years ago
Great! I had a similar idea a while back glad someone is doing it! Will it be open source? mostly curious what tech it is built upon.
PianoGym · 4 years ago
Hey there! Thank you so much for the positive feedback!

At the moment it will not be open source, but in the future there will be efforts to open source it. If not open sourcing the code at least open sourcing the learning material for Piano Gym.

Please tell all your friends we really need the exposure!

ck_one · 4 years ago
Love it!
PianoGym · 4 years ago
Love you! <3
sturza · 4 years ago
Please make this a thing on HN.
whoisbuilding · 4 years ago
I'll post this on the first Monday of every month moving forward.
brainless · 4 years ago
Hello everyone, I am Sumit Datta, a technical founder with many failed attempts. I have experience of working in about 12 startups in 15 years. 2 of them barely made financial success.

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.

your_challenger · 4 years ago
Hey Sumit. Would love to have a chat (in general) about India's markets and what you've built in the past.

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.

koch · 4 years ago
Swink | Seattle or REMOTE

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

opendomain · 4 years ago
My partner and I have created the next puzzle phenomena. Similar to the Rubik's cube, but with different mechanics and many more solutions.

We 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

dcz_self · 4 years ago
Looking for freelancers to start an IT cooperative | EU/REMOTE

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.

luto · 4 years ago
so, "think framasoft.org, but more commercial" (w/o implying that that's a bad thing)?
dcz_self · 4 years ago
That's not far off, at least based on the English descriptions of Framasoft.

With self-governance included in the package, it's not imposible to turn into another Framasoft in the long term.

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_448 · 4 years ago
What skill-sets are you looking for?