Comment by edw519 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by edw519 | Hacker News Reader

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This is way too superficial to give a meaningful result. What's needed is something like "eharmony for co-founders", "based on 29 Dimensions® of Compatibility for lasting and fulfilling businesses". There needs to be a way of matching the things that really turn people on without anyone giving up their secrets.

Just a few possibilities:

  - background (education, experience)
  - specific industry experience
  - technical skill set
  - nontechnical skill set
  - space (iphone, web app, desktop, social media, business, gaming)
  - end user (consumer, SMB, enterprise)
  - model (freemium, advertising, subscription, licenses)
  - geography
  - source of capital (bootstrap, incubator, angels, VC)
  - goal (lifestyle business, exit in x years)
  - special domain expertise
  - pet peeves
  - favorite things already done
  - philosophical beliefs of how things should be done

I could go on and on, but you kinda get the idea. If enough of these meaningful "dimensions" could be identified and codified, you could probably narrow down a search to a few very good possibilities fairly quickly. Business idea, anyone?

Hiya, matchfounders.com is my baby. It is my pitch from launch48 (launch48.com)

I'll start by saying I completely agree with you... but add that I pitched this idea only three days ago... we built it over this weekend ;)

So when we say "MVP" here... we really have only just started.

That being said - love your ideas for fields to add to the db. As should be fairly obvious, we just grabbed a small handful of random fields just for show... now it's time to start thinking about stuff that would actually be useful.

Oh, and the idea I pitched was exactly "eHarmony for founders"... that's our goal. :)

If you decide to go deeper with the details like in the bulleted points above, I think 2 additional features would be useful:

1. Radio buttons for each item that lets the selecting person set how important that item is to them on a scale of 1 to 10.

2. Something to do with attitude/personality, such as (serious)(humorous)(quiet)(outgoing) etc... where both people can rate themselves on a scale of 1 to 10.

Another dimension for compatibility:

- religious beliefs (Emacs or Vim)

Nice suggestions @edw519, but I think what they have done is great as an MVP and can be improved gradually.

Yeah, I find it a little humorously ironic that the MVP drum gets beat here all the time, and when people announce an actual MVP, there's always someone saying that it needs more features to be useful. :-) (With all due respect to edw519.)

It's trial by fire here at HN. Yeah, people can be harsh, but HNers are nothing if not practical.

I'd rather some guy tell me my product sucks, here's 10 ways to improve it, rather than someone pat me on the head and commend me on a good job!

agreed :)

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