There are 3 rules
1. Put in your location in the comments 2. If there is someone in your local area looking for a cofounder meet them this weekend. 3. Not too much spiel - keep it fairly enigmatic
Three rules. Go forth and conquer..
Don't sit on the fence. Make stuff happen. This president's day weekend is finding a cofounder weekend...
What's the reason you don't have a cofounder? because you haven't done what's stated above.
1. An easy software solution for multivariate testing web pages. 2. A bid management tool for PPC. I'm thinking something like www.efrontier.com, but for small and medium sized businesses. 3. Totally different from the top two, but I'm interested in a personalized (or well-balanced) news site. Findory would be the best comparison. Of course, it failed, so I am a little bit hesitant and I think relying on advertising as your only revenue source is very risky. If you're interested in the latest technology that could be used in this area, check out http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~hinton/absps/sh.pdf
My email address is in my profile.
The email address in your profile is only visible to you and the YC management.
A site for the kind of people who'd try it to find out.
Actually, it is explained in News News (http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html), but maybe most people don't bother looking at that.
What kind of site calls a feature "noprocrast" without giving any detailed information about what it does? Only news.yc!
--edit
I wonder why I am being modded down. Maybe I said it too sarcastically. News.YC really does have a terrible interface. Look at the account settings page-- imagine yourself as a user who has never been there before. It's confusing and poorly documented. I love this site for the content and the simplicity, but Paul Graham is a programmer and spent very little time on the user experience, which makes sense. I don't blame him.
But it is still a bad interface. I'm pretty sure 99% of people who fill out the "email" field expect their email to somehow be visible to other users. It's right next to another field that IS visible.
When I hit the little ycn button on my dash, i'm immediately greeted with a list of interesting articles, flanked by comments that are worth reading. That's the most important part of the user experience for us, so here we stay.
It just has a sub-par interface. Compared to other sites, it has a terrible UI. It's not very user friendly, and it could be much more so.
(def good-login (user pw ip)
(let record (list (seconds) ip user pw)
(if (and user pw (aand (shash pw) (is it (hpasswords* user))))
(do (unless (user->cookie* user) (cook-user user))
(enq-limit record good-logins*)
user)
(do (enq-limit record bad-logins*)
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(let record (list (seconds) ip user)
...I agree that advertising is not the way to go. However end users have demonstrated that they are not very willing to pay for services unless its to meet girls ;)
Corporate, on the other hand, doesn't seem to want anything for free...
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John D. Rockefeller attributed most of his success to his frequent master-mind meetings with other business owners. In fact, 90% of what we now know as Rockefeller's achievements came after Thomas Edison joined his master-mind group.
If you are interested, send me an email and include your phone number: adammichaelc@gmail.com
2. Este fin de semana en San Miguel de Allende. La semana que entra en México, D.F. para http://consol.org.mx, buscando programador para http://twext.com/gig
3. http://twext.com/overview wants great hacker to add value to unicode texts by formatting them twext. Why? So we can more easily learn natural language like Español, Français, Português, etc etc. So we can communicate better. Twext text works on computers and prints on paper. Today, a billion people are learning English.
a.) http://olpcnews.com/content/localization/learning_language.h...
b.) http://more.read.fm/more_language#why.3F
4. Spiel: Lisp?
Unfortunately, I was an absolute noob when I came up with the idea ~8 months ago, so I am learning as I go along (ironically, what I really need is something like ezLearnz to help accelerate my learning). As such, progress is slower than I expected; I hoped to have launched ezLearnz by February, but I still have some development to do. Hopefully, the launch will occur within a week, give or take a few days, at http://beta.ezlearnz.com . I'm developing in RoR, so a RoR developer would be ideal.
My contact details are in my (public) profile.
If you are creating or have a nice idea for a client based on the webdav protocal (web-based or desktop), we would be interested to work with you. We have the server implemented already which works with existing clients and developing other clients
I'm not really interested in doing anything web-based though since my background is mainly desktop Windows development in C# for a few years now. If anyone's interested in talking to see if there might be some synergy shoot me an e-mail.
Elaborate?
Not looking for an immediate cofounder as much as just other local entrepreneurs with moxy to meetup with from time to time, exchange ideas and skills. If things click, we can go from there...
Looking for someone who can kick ass and take names. A Rails developer would be great, but I'm also looking for someone who has business chops and a good understanding of accounting principles.
25, university degree, looking for a cofounder with experience in natural language processing and clustering of documents (like http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~hinton/absps/sh.pdf someone else posted below). Preferentially Java. Idea is blog search related.
bluelu - where in .ch? I am in Zurich sort of regularly on business these days.
What about Zurich, btw., I think there are plenty of jobs there (mostly in banking...).
Ok, I'm not looking for a cofounder, but rather a lead developer to help commercialize our software. We are a funded startup company in Salt Lake City, UT. If interested, you can see our Craigslist ad at: http://saltlakecity.craigslist.org/sof/576377282.html
Graphic design, GUI, CSS+HTML, SEO, Blogging, Viral Marketing
wademeredith.com <---portfolio site/contact me here.
19 living in Santa Clarita, CA (just north of Los Angeles). Contact info, as well as stuff I've done is available in my profile.
Just imagine what would happen if you left this for next weekend. And then felt a bit lazy, and put it off for another few days. Then didn't bother meeting up at all. Chatted over IM, got offended by something someone said because they were nervous and then never met at all.
Momentum breeds momentum. People have a huge inertia to changing their situation.
If you want to stay how you are, then do it. Everyone around you will be finding great people to work with and moving on.
Anyone else from the UK, let me know. The Songkick guys held a UK hackers meetup last year, so we're probably due for another one soon. Maybe we could do one in Stratford-Upon-Avon?!
Location: Seattle, WA.
(Proximity not a requirement)
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/same-language-subtitl...
synxi theory: with tools to easily sync/caption youtube, kaltura, etc, we can make a fun way to learn/teach each other language, (ie engelsk, spansk, norsk, etc)
wow. Those are quite divergent worlds, I should say. You may be looking for two people.
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What would you suggest?
My partner and I have known each other since high school but he went off to college while I went into the military. After reconnecting we've been working on small projects on and off for the past couple cycles to learn each others quirks, styles, and most importantly trust.
And after attending our 5 year high school reunion it's really surprising that people we haven't talked to in awhile turned out to be doing very similar tech things as well, even if they're not in the area. It surely doesn't hurt to look up Facebook some old friends and see what they're doing or what they're working on. Maybe some hate big corporate culture as much as we all do here.
A better way would be for people to list out their work experiences or market they're analyzing for their startup.
For example, one of the failed ideas I was researching for was event planning and building an evite competitor. After 4 months I dropped it but I've kept plenty of notes about trends, other websites, feature lists, specs, and so forth. If anyone wants to discuss it feel free to get in touch with me at alaska.miller@gmail.com. I also worked at a big corporation working with CMS tools, search tools, publication, enterprise software for PLM processes. If you want to build software to optimize those fields, again, get in touch with me.
Likewise my current idea is dealing with Flash video and Flex environment, and accessibility. If anyone has experience with that, please email me.
Start emailing people and sharing with them your ideas for feedback, then ask them for another referral to someone else you can talk to until you've literally have no one left to talk to. I've been keeping track of all my conversations and people of interest in iCal and 37s Highrise and building my business network. I'm also inviting local people to lunch to pick their brains.
But it's completely youthful naivety to think this is the right way to cofound a business together.
Perhaps not the ideal way, if you already have a big database of contacts you should probably go through that first, yes. But I co-founded our company after meeting a guy I didn't know previously who had advertised for a hacker to do some contract work (as I said elsewhere on this thread) and 2 years later the company's doing great.. Don't rule out this as a possibility, basically.
In the meantime, back to work.
I'm in Bristol, UK if anyone wishes to get in touch.