Find cofounders and share ideas

The site sucks big-time. I've been using it for a while and trying to find someone to do something with, and it's just impossible. The list is exceedingly long, you have NO idea at all what the real skills of the other person is, it's difficult to view the portfolio or so of the other person. You don't even know where the person is located!

It's totally useless, unless you want to just stab in the dark and pick someone. And even if I did that, I have no idea when he put that entry in, when I send him an email he has no idea who I am.

A real co-founding site would need the following features:

- Last login

- Date created

- Skillset of the person, in particular his strongest languages (too many people are just listing a bunch of stuff)

- If the person has to work on his own idea or if he is willing to work on other peoples ideas also

- If the person has money or needs to be funded

- Is the person working full-time or not

- List of all the projects, portfolio and other things the person wants to 'boast' about

And there should be a way to float the best potential co-founders to the top of the pool so everyone can compete for them. Flat lists like this are just not useful one bit. For such skill and talent based things, ranked lists are essential.

Step 1: meet possible co-founders in person: http://www.meetup.com/Co-Founders-Wanted-Meetup/

Step 2: test if the person is a possible co-founder for you: http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2010/10/15/how-do-i-know-you-ar...

Step 3: make it official http://foundrs.com

That's (literally) how I do it :-)

>What I Want: Developers, designers, basically people to do the job while I stand back and enjoy my sushi.

These are exactly the kind of people I don't want to meet.

FYI: The json that powers the ajaxy interface includes pretty much their entire users table, including email address. When they first launched the hashed password was also in there, but at least they fixed that.

So their claim: "your email address is not even available to be scrapped up by a bot when the web page loads" may be true only in the sense you don't even need a bot to scrape the emails.

I hate to be negative (nah, really, I love it), but finding a cofounder via this is a bit like finding a wife via a profiles-only dating site.

Sure, it might happen, but I wouldn't bet on it.

I have been trying to find a co founder there for some time now.

Although I do like the sleek style it's somehow lacking the conversation part wich make it hard to judge where to begin.

Graphically the site is designed beautifully.

Functionally; I hate it. My eyes have to travel all the way to the right side to view a skinny panel. The text is tiny, and is hard to read. Most of the fields in user's profiles are shown as empty.

I like the concept though and will watch it.

Out of curiosity, has anyone here found a cofounder using this site?

It's more like a Build an App with me then build a business with me. Making a stranger your business partner does't seem like a good idea.

I was just working on a web app for this same thing (pitched.in). I like your execution. Good luck with it.

Looks awesome.

What gives it that visual style, is it a particular web framework or something else?

No ideas/people are showing up.

Wow.. seriously, the site looks fantastic!