Ask HN: Could HN be a dating bureau for entrepreneurs?

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Could I find my co-founder here on hn? So what if I wanted to advocate my interest in finding a co-founder, could that be a sub-part of hn?

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Sure, why not ? Just write up a nice description of what you are looking for in a co-founder and post it, I'm sure you'll either get some real respondents or you'll learn about what's wrong in the way you approach it.

have a look here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052950

and do a google search for

site:news.ycombinator.com co-founder wanted

and

site:news.ycombinator.com looking for a co-founder

best of luck!

I have to say I was thinking more along the lines of 'match me against criteria x and y'. Needless to say, the trust part is the most difficult part I suspect..

I don't think there are enough connections among individuals in the community to make that work. HN doesn't place a high priority on identity. No avatars, no karma display, no username differentiation. I'd bet the average HN member can only recall around ten HN usernames they have a good idea of the personality & project of.

http://socialstrategist.com/2008/04/16/your-users-are-boring...

HN did start a cofounder wishlist GoogleDoc a while back.

You can find it in a more searchable format on http://StartupLinkup.com

I agree with the parent.

Write up an Ask HN post about your project or idea and ask for feedback and then maybe at the end say that you're looking for someone to help with it as a partner. Or something along those lines.

As much as we'd wish HN to be a different type of community, this is still an online community and you can only know the next HN'er as much as anyone knows anybody else from an online community. However, when you discuss things of a non-superficial nature then you'd get to have a feel of the other person's personality.

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