I am disappointed and furious about the progress of our communications industry. ISPs for far too long have been milking the taxpayers and foremost the customers.
During high school, I ran our town's dial-up ISP. This was a high school program to bring internet to our little town, at an affordable non-long-distance price. My most recent employment was taking a wISP from 1300 customers to 5000 customers in 2.5 years with a staff of less than 10. We had 2 IT wizards, the primary owner and myself. The rest were installers/physical maintenance and 2 secretaries.
I'm looking to found an ISP similar to my previous employer, BUT this is going to be a hybrid tower/fiber model ISP that must operate at the lowest cost to consumers possible.
I have worn so many hats it's time to put them all on at once. I'm just not sure if I can pull this off by myself nor will my savings cover the start-up cost.
Sorry for the rant, and no contact info. I should probably spin up the website/email server for contact points while thinking this over.
First, fiber can be done much better than any provider I've seen. Every house 4x10gbps openflow switches with P2P fibers to the neighbours brings down the network cost below $1 per month (from $10-$25 rental). IP transit cost for most would be just $1. Maybe another $1 for a huge disk cache (TV streaming). The most expensive part of the fee would be for helpdesk, support and billing.
The router can have TOR and anonymous VPN hardware at linespeed.
Better still to do Enernet: optical plus electrical grid, so you can trade your solar and ev battery electricity with the neighbourhood.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309254511_Fiberhood...
My primary frustration is the lagging adoption of IPv6 and the lagging reliance on advertising funded centrally managed servers/services that only exist to connect around NAT. For example if I wanted to text a remote user of share a file I should be able to do so without uploading to a server. In that case end-to-end encryption go from super challenging to incredibly easy.
I may have an excellent fit for you.
Pop a contact email/other method in your bio?
Already have a state-of-the art prototype that has better performance than $3k lidars for under a hundred bucks.
Applications are robots that need to navigate autonomously in a non-cooperative environment (humanoid robots, delivery drones, etc). There's also a dozen other applications to use the sensor for (indoor millimeter-localization with beacons, insect detection and identification, passive localization of sound sources, etc).
I'd love to meet someone with a strong technical background but who could help me on all non-technical tasks (getting funding, finding an application to focus on, managing certifications, etc)
More context at [1] [2]
I'm currently based in France but would like to relocate in March when I finish my current internship.
[1]: https://www.alextoussaint.com/2021-04-28_How-I-built-an-ultr...
[2]: https://www.alextoussaint.com/
alex at alextoussaint.com
[1]: https://lunni.dev/
alexander@notpushk.in
Have some fresh ideas for which I would love to team up. Technical/non-technical doesn't matter. You either build shit or are awesome at talking to customers. I do both as well. If this is you, hit me up. Will start with some side projects together to test compatibility first.
I am in East Coast (Southern NJ). 20 mins from Philadelphia and 1.5 hours from NYC, 3-4 hours from DC. For co-founders, I personally believe that we need to work together in person at least in the beginning. So that's a hard requirement for me.
Note: Experience with YC Founder matching has been terrible at least for me so far.
Though my current location (Japan) timezone is 14 hours ahead of you, I have a good family base in NY-NJ area with another home base on US west coast and professional network on both coast. So spending few months in the area to work together is not a problem.
I get contacted by too many "idea" people who are one developer or salesman away from making it big. I am not interested in such people. I am interested in teaming up with someone who is capable of doing whatever needed to move forward, someone who can also execute and roll up the sleeves to code when needed, outreach when needed, learn new things when needed, and not afraid to take on unknown. Excellent communication skills, and frequent and open communication are must.
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I have more of a 'business' background, have worked on policy projects for the tech sector and have a lot of project management skills. My day job right now is an executive position, and I can build teams, set vision, and implement. I also have enough coding background to build prototypes, so can contribute to technical aspects at the beginning.
Feel free to message me if you want to collaborate on a project!
for now i'm still building the primitives like spaced repetition, calendar, reminders etc.
imagine if zettelkasten took advantaged of: hypertext, web components, URL state, incremental reading, spaced repetition.
transforming itself into a 'digital collective second superbrain'
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( o.o )
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contact me at: adm [at] noite.ink for more
I am working on a kind of second brain / memex solution...
My angle on the subject matter is the individual and its companion, the mobile phone...
Maybe we should talk about interfaces, and maybe about a new UI idea for big and lengthy discussions..?
All the best!
Christian, Dresden
i'm also working on a memex/second brain-like solution.
I've been running my own product design firm for 10 years, and have personally designed and lead teams thatbdesigned many highly complex gurdwara products like surgical robotics, dialysis machines, artificial hearts, and many other products.
I run a small boutique hardware design firm here in San Francisco. I have a lot of equipment and capabilities that are super helpful for hardware projects and companies. I'm always looking for new clients, partners and potential co founders for my projects and my clients projects. More information and contact details are on my website at www.iancollmceachern.com
Please feel free to reach out!
If anyone is interested or can help, please do ping me - I'm sure we'll work something out. Email is azib [at] medangle [dot] com
I am not a good cofounder in India but maybe I could be of any help?
I’m Tanay . I’m building a search engine for bookmarks and knowledge to provide recommendations from users' bookmarks across platforms, including X, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, etc.
I chose to build this product because I had more than 3000 thousand bookmarks scattered across apps that I was not revisiting or using. Every time I start to scroll through, I would only end up with the first 10-15.
If you’re interested and passionate about building a tool that people love using and love paying for, shoot me a message.
Also might make a small platform for matching technical people with other technical people because of the other post[1]. You can message about that too, if you want to either participate in that as a regular user looking for a cofounder, or do programming to make that platform as a contributor or cofounder.
I built and sold a company. Regret it now. Would really love to get back into something new but haven’t found an idea which really grabs me.
Semi technical in the sense that I can architect sane systems that meet business requirements. But not a CS background, and while I can write code, it’s not a good use of my time.
Last time was 100% bootstrapped and solo founder. Would love to have a cofounder this go around.
Strong preference for someone based on NYC or willing to relocate here.
Open to working on any projects or coming up with ideas or just to network. Email in my about.
or because it's somehow a rude question?