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I just stumbled upon an old Ask HN with the same topic from 2010 and I thought this could be useful to resurrect.

You should probably mention what you are working on, where you are located, what stage you are in, who you are looking for, what you can bring to the table and a way to contact you.

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Hey everyone,

I develop Streamus, https://streamus.com // https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/streamus/jbnkffmin...

Streamus is a browser extension alternative to Spotify powered by YouTube. I have been developing the software for ~3 years and it currently has 300K active users. I'm interested in working towards a first round of funding after having misc. angels express interest in the past.

I live in San Luis Obispo, CA (smack dab in the middle between LA and SF).

I'm mostly looking for another developer fluent in JavaScript to aid in development. Bonus points for having a business/start-up background.

I'd like to think I bring a lot to the table. I'm currently coasting on savings while working on Streamus full-time, unpaid. I contract ~12hrs/wk to cover bare necessities. I have 4 yrs xp as lead developer of a small software company and am an active contributor to Backbone.Marionette, one of the leading open-source JavaScript frameworks. My efforts on Streamus are well known on Reddit with my latest marketing efforts resulting in the #4 post of all time in r/music, http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/2sypcn/seven_months_a.... My efforts have also been featured on TechCrunch, LifeHacker, TheNextWeb, Product Hunt (twice), and many other tech. blogs. I've declined a potential position at YouTube Music in order to pursue this project further.

Feel free to hit me up at admin@streamus.com for any business inquiries, or if you just want to chat and learn more about the product. :)

Cheers

I don't know Sean or anything about Streamus as a business, but I use it on a regular basis and it's a really well thought out Chrome extension.

It would be great to see support for easier sharing of user-created playlists (beyond copying/pasting URLs), such as an official & searchable repository with ranked lists of playlists for different genres and purposes (reading, coding, etc.).

:) It really would be nice. It's been on my mind and I've been gradually taking steps to evolve the website into something usable for that purpose, but, for now, I have a firm priority list of things which need to get done that users don't care much about. YouTube TOS concerns (nothing huge, I've worked through them with YouTube I just need to finish writing the code), some security/oauth concerns, and getting SoundCloud added as an additional catalog source. Once those things are done I'd expect a lot of the 'smaller' features to get implemented very quickly.

You can see a full list of feature requests here: https://github.com/MeoMix/StreamusChromeExtension/issues. I haven't embellished on all of the ideas yet, but the list should give you a general idea of what I think needs to happen -- including improving the UX of sharing playlists.

Very interesting extension. Doesn't the YouTube ToS prohibit playing just audio from a video? (#8 and #9 under Prohibitions are where I got this impression: https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms)

Indeed. Thus the talks with YouTube. The issue has always been more of a technical challenge than a political/design challenge. The foreground popup page used by most extensions is destroyed when focus is lost which makes it a very poor location for hosting YouTube's <iframe>. The audio would stop whenever the popup loses focus. So, the <iframe> is hosted on a background page which, unfortunately, isn't visible to the end user.

I've known about the issue since day 1 and went into this project with the mindset of, "If I make something cool enough to get shut down then I'll consider it a success."

A few years into the project I garnered their attention and was finally able to setup some talks to figure out what my options were for fulfilling their ToS.

My initial suggestion was to allow Streamus to follow in the footsteps of the Google Hangouts extension which uses Chrome Panels to display a tab-independent window over your browser. The intent was that the YouTube video could be displayed there and minimized when not wanted. However, this functionality is being deprecated and Google didn't have much interest in expanding the usage of it.

So, what I've got going now is some code which injects itself into YouTube's iframe and sniffs the responses from YouTube's server, https://github.com/MeoMix/StreamusChromeExtension/blob/Devel.... This allows me to pass around a pointer to the array buffer of video data being rendered in YouTube's iframe. Using this data I'm able to sync and re-render the video inside of the popup without having it coupled directly to the audio.

So far this seems like a satisfactory response to the issue. It's akin to having a YouTube video player running on an inactive tab. The user has the ability to watch the video, but isn't necessarily viewing it while listening to the audio.

I'm aware that I'm playing with fire a fair bit, but I think that's the case when using any API. YouTube has been nothing but completely understanding throughout all of our talks.

Fallback options include migrating Streamus to a Chrome App, which would not suffer the same issue but, IMO, has worse UX, or migrating away from YouTube in favor of other sources such as SoundCloud, MixCloud, SFX.io, etc.

Don't you think it's a bit risky to be building your startup on someone elses platform ?.

They might be ok with it now, but there’s nothing stopping them from changing their mind in the future.

Totally.

However, it's worth noting that there are much larger fish in this pond already! http://plug.dj/ employs 9 people and has 2.5 million in funding while being entirely dependent on YouTube's API for their business model.

I don't think that validates my decision, but it helps me sleep at night a bit. Plus, YouTube is trying to get into this sphere with software such as YouTube Music Key. They're failing to win over the general public with it, but Streamus doesn't seem to have any trouble convincing people to give YouTube a try as a more genuine music player. I'd like to think that they'd be more interested in acquiring the software than forcing it to sink alongside their own.

Okay, I'll bite...

I'm looking for a cofounder for a small business deal. I want to sell GNU Octave. Something like what the Julia folks are doing[1]. I do not foresee this will be a startup, not a build once, sell infinitely often kind of deal (I don't consider what the Julia people are doing is a startup either). We are in all probability not going to become millionaires. But hopefully we will be doing good in the world and we will find a way to fund others who are. Matlab is huge, and while Julia and Python chip around the edges of its market dominance, we need something like Octave that can take it head-on and be a drop-in replacement.

I do mathematics and programming. I know GNU Octave well, and I also know its community. I don't know how to do market research, advertising, how to negotiate contracts, or how to look for funding. If you think you could help me, contact me at jordigh@octave.org

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9516298

you mean sell support right (like what redhat does), or the actual software?

Both. And Red Hat also does both. You don't get access to download their software if you don't pay. If selling custom binaries for Octave works (under the terms of the GPL, of course), we should try that too.

I suppose you could sell custom binaries, but if you distribute them, you likely have to publish the code. That said, you could maybe run them in the cloud yourself and sell access.

> but if you distribute them, you likely have to publish the code.

Sure, publish the code to the person we sell them to, and no one else. If they want to take the job of rebuilding the binaries themselves, they're welcome to try, but I think the hassle of doing that is what we would be getting paid to do.

Maintaining an online version of Octave seems like another possibility. A couple of people have already built online versions of Octave, and when I approached one of them several months ago, they seemed receptive to the idea to commercialise it.

(Apart from using Octave i am unable to currently pursue any such opportunities)

I have one question; how do you foresee the competition's reaction to any sustained success? Certainly if you are successful, they are free to subtly change how MATLAB functions in small ways to break what you do. Right? Or am I missing something?

They already do that. Chasing after Matlab compatibility is no fun, but someone has to do it.

My impression right now is that Octave is too small for the Mathworks to take us seriously. It will take a lot of work to make Octave grow into something big enough for the Mathworks to acknowledge our existence. Hopefully by the time Octave is that big, we will have the means to defend ourselves, if it comes to that.

I'm the founder of Shaxpir, a word-processor in the cloud for fiction authors. I have a software engineering background, so I build the MVP myself. After two years of prototyping, I just launched the beta 2 months ago, and by now there are about 100 people using the beta. It's a desktop app built with web technologies (like Slack or Atom) and a Java backend on AWS with Elasticsearch.

Anyhow, I'm getting ready to start raising money in a few months, after the beta ends and we launch the product publicly. I've already recruited two co-founders, but I'm looking for a VP of Engineering. I'm based in Portland, OR, so somebody in the PNW would be ideal.

Here's a teaser video introducing the product:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFG8fpYkDxA

And the product website is here:

http://www.shaxpir.com

You can email at benji@shaxpir.com if you're interested.

That is very cool. Congrats on a great project - it looks awesome.

That is incredibly cool and great product video too.

Cool product, but how big is the market?

Have you ever read a book? Seen a movie? Bought a comic book?

It's a big market.

I hope we can get this monthly topic added to the "whoishiring" posting routine. Or perhaps this will surface where other's have had success finding matches, provided it doesn't get crushed by the Monday news cycle.

I am toying with the idea of "startup as a service" meaning taking care of anything that is on a startup checklist. That is, taking care of things like incorporation, hosting, even tiny amounts of seed money (a few hundred dollars) so that in this case rather than hitting up family, a 19 year old founder can fail fast anywhere in the world by just building and trying to get traction on our "startup as a service" platform. In other words, making it absolutely, positively, free to start a startup and start getting customers. (With ourselves as investors if it starts getting traction, or, of course, they are free to move off of our platform if they want.)

The idea is that nothing should come between a founder and the idea/MVP. Nothing. my ideal cofounder would have considerable experience with legalities, experienced regarding terms (since it's our model), and potentially on board for this as a future source of dealflow (i.e. someone who wants a source of investments personally would be a match as well.). hit me up if you'd like to have this conversation.

Things that scale to 10,000 founders:

-> Incorporation process with standardized terms

-> Docker containers with hosting (that we host) that we can look into and judge actual traction (to keep founders from wasting any time whatsoever on a seed round, no matter how disconnected they might be - traction unlocks it automatically, they should just build, build, build)

-> collective service agreements on behalf of all our founders, so that we can take care of service integrations. For example giving all our founders stripe integration so they can start billing for whatever they put up.

-> Basically everything that can be taken off of a startup checklist, when someone is first starting out and doesn't want to be distracted for weeks with business and service arrangements that are not about building product!

-> Streamlining a PR process by having key contacts get a steady stream of stories of traction by our founders.

I have been mulling over a similar idea. I was thinking about including the creation of an MVP as part of the offering to encourage non-technical founders to get involved.

However, the financial model I had been thinking about was that I would charge the founders at cost for time and materials for all the initial set up. With scale you could do it much faster and cheaper than they could and would reduce their risk. Max implementation time frame of 2 months. Hard limits on scope creep/late changes. Use frameworks to make implementation as fast as possible. Probably cost the founders $20k - $30k. You want them to pay up front to make sure they are committed to the project and aren't just wasting your time. I would head towards having standard code bases for various types of start up models.

Retain 20% equity in the start up that you've helped create.

Worst case scenario, the start up goes nowhere and you've covered costs. Best case start up does well and you've got 20% equity.

It's a good deal for founders because they reduce their risks, they get speed to market and they have access to a development team for further development if they get traction.

I'm afraid we have radically different visions here, mine is an incubator/accelerator model, yours is a consultancy model. I've deleted the rest.

I understand what you are saying and I agree that our visions are very different :)

What would be your financial model? Bear in mind that I'm in Australia, so $20k - $30k to me might be something completely different to you. From my perspective, if you can't find $20k, you aren't serious about your business. Also, in my model, $20k gets you to a point where you have a business that you can market, run and start taking orders.

AFAIK, YCombinator doesn't build you an MVP, or provide you hosting or do all the items on your start up checklist, so I don't think this is a fair comparison.

As for valuation, at the point that you walk in with an idea and nothing more, I think your idea is worth about $1. Valuation at this stage is fairly meaningless. They are paying $20K at cost for the services I'm providing. I forgo making a margin on these services in exchange for 20% equity. So, in effect we share the risk. I reduce my risks by making sure I at least cover my costs. They reduce their risks by knowing they'll get to MVP stage without any hassles caused by their inexperience or lack of technical prowess.

Maybe 20% is too much equity, I don't know. What I do know is that I want a potential piece of any large upside I might help create. That's my price for forgoing margin on the initial services I provide.

Yes, for the model you envision the marginal costs should be low. However, you are looking at requiring a very long runway. How long do you think it would take before you start making money? You've got to include the time not only to launch your own start up but launch the first customer's start up that makes money. Considering a potential 90% + failure rate, you might be waiting a while. This is why I think you need to at least try and cover your costs.

It's a shame you deleted what you wrote. It was an interesting perspective and it challenged some of my assumptions.

I wish you the best of luck with your start up.

I am genuinely curious as to how an incubator/accelerator model makes money. Maybe somebody else can answer?

Can you MVP this with a curated and detailed guide with referral links?

I had a similar idea for small businesses - a cost-plus based consultancy, to take on any technical or administrative task you had.

I'd be interested.

> The idea is that nothing should come between a founder and the idea/MVP. Nothing.

I think those barriers that come between founders and MVP are important obstacles to learn to overcome. IF you can't get an MVP off the ground, with all the distractions like incorporating, how the heck do you hope to survive the real challenges of a startup like figuring out how to make payroll when there is no money in the bank.

Maybe i'm wrong, but something about removing these barriers strikes me as self-defeating, and would likely lead you on a journey with lots of folks who never should be doing startups in the first place.

It's not like the barrier to entry is so big right now...but your belief that "nothing should come between a founder and an MVP" is fundamentally flawed. A better mantra would be, "A good founder wont let anything get in the way of launching an MVP."

Just my two cents.

Edit: Grammar

Our views are different.

Putting my 2 cents in - I think this is a really cool idea. While I'm not actively looking for a co-founder I'd love to read a regular post and see if I could lend a hand to a new project.

Could definitely be a useful, regular, monthly post.

It seems like there are a lot of interesting projects out there.

I'm a somewhat technical founder currently bootstrapping an elearning startup - Tapfun. Although I have a biz dev / marketing background, I wanted to be able to contribute on the product so I rolled up my sleeves and built all of our iOS apps to date. I grew up with computers but was never deeply technical (just building websites for extra income).

We have over 1M downloads on iPad and everyday tens of thousands of young students use our apps. Recently I hired some contractors to help build the next gen of our products with a proper backend. We have our first school client for the platform and they are rolling out an app for all of their grade 1 students using this technology (in place: contract iOS dev, backend, front end).

I've realized that I really need a technical partner so that I can trust someone to really own the technical side of the business and I will focus on raising a seed round and growing the customer base. I'm planning to move from Toronto to the US in the fall (either NYC or San Fran) depending on how my accelerator applications go.

Even though i've been at this for 3+ years i'm open to bringing in a cofounder. Seeking full stack expertise (bonus points for ML experience) with a desire to make a huge impact in the learning space. Drop me a line (email in profile) to chat about how education will change in the future.

I'm a technical founder building an easy way for consumers to seek justice against the large corporations we are forced to deal with every day (Comcast, Verizon, Bank of America) via small claims.

I'm seeking a legal cofounder to shape the product to be compliant and effective.

Currently building prototype. Email throwaway84557@gmail.com

Best of luck to you. I have considered something like this before. This would be very important work, and I really hope you succeed. Thank you.

I am not "actively" seeking a co-founder, but if the right person comes a long and we're in sync on the right things, i'm open to the idea. But I don't mind DIY either.

working on: The rebolder, an online social news site with a focus on donating to charities and providing an experience worth paying for in itself. There are no upvotes/downvotes but instead voteable tags, signup requires donation to charity, enchanced paid posting options and VIP accounts with more vote weight.

Stack: Rails + Postgres + ES

I live in Philadelphia.

Who I'm looking for: deeply ethical pragmatist and social capitalist, willing to make a living serving a public good on multiple fronts, not a build & flip. Interest in news and newspapers and associated history. Absolute unwavering loyalty to the users and their best interests.

What I bring to the table: everything that's not financials or legal, more or less.

Stage: mostly designed and built, a few integrations and tweaks to go.

Contact: r.rebolderco@ruru.name

This sounds very cool—sign me up for the beta if/when that's available!

I'm a technical founder (full stack + Android), currently bootstrapping a no sign-up, private/anonymous blogging platform. I've got the architecture and apps built out and in "beta," so the last step is building out optional user accounts and the premium features to go along with it.

I'm looking for someone primarily with business/marketing experience who's done this before, or someone technical who knows security and/or iOS. But above all, I need someone who believes in developing more privacy-focused tech. I'm trying to build a long-term business, and this product is just the start of a bigger picture I have in mind.

I'm based out of Jacksonville, FL, but location shouldn't matter. My email is matt@write.as.

There are too many apps out there (that includes websites). Hence, I'm building something that will replace them all (or 80%, to be realistic).

I don't care what you are, as long as you agree with the premise. This is your project too.

PS: For those who lack imagination, think of it as "what would computers and the internet look like if they were invented today".

I am intrigued. How could one contact you?

Let's start here.

Otherwise email me. I'm easy to find.

My E-Mail address can be found on my HN-profile.

It's a pretty bold, revolutionary statement and I can't seem to figure out the so-called obvious solution. Is it an "interface to everything" like viv.ai [0]?

[0]: http://viv.ai

Even though viv.ai sounds almost exactly like what I'm working on, there are important differences. I would say that viv.ai, being an AI, is more ambitious than my vision.

One of the main superficial difference between viv.ai and my project is speech. I don't believe that speech is a very good interface, and I have no plan to make it part of my system.

I have no doubt that viv.ai has the potential to be as good or better than Google Now, Cortana and Siri, but their focus on speech and natural language interface (from my perspective) will prove to be a huge limitation. Without an interface that forces people to think and communicate more clearly (i.e., not speech), they won't elevate humanity.

I see an idea but no execution.

Is the idea so earth shattering that you can't reveal it here?

I despise secrecy, copyrights, patents, etc. I will answer every question.

That said, there's not much to reveal. It's pretty much what I said above. Isn't the solution obvious?

I am working on Wealth.ai (https://www.wealth.ai/) -- a virtual financial assistant that consumers communicate with using natural language.

I have a technical background and am working with an excellent designer who has experience in an adjacent space. We're in NYC and SF, respectively.

We're looking for people on two fronts: marketing and technical (especially NLP and machine learning for technical folks). We've been operating with the plan of not bringing anyone else on, and have an excellent product nearing initial release, but would love to bring on someone with complimentary skills if there were a great match.

I'm also just happy to chat if you'd like. My email is in my profile.

Primrose Editor is a syntax-highlighting text editor component for virtual reality applications built in web browsers. Very soon, it will be a framework for creating applications and games in WebVR:

    https://www.primroseeditor.com/

I have also developed haptic devices for use with VR applications.

We will pitch consulting services in VR to universities, hospitals, retail spaces, reception halls, etc., to continue to build out the framework. The framework will be the core technology to games and applications we create.

I'm looking for help with biz dev, marketing, sales, systems ops, and software development.

Contact me through my HN profile.

I've built a working prototype of an intelligent system that can act as a virtual assistant for a narrow set of tasks. Think what clara labs or magic try to do - they are partly human and partly automated. Here's my earlier post [1] with more details. I'm looking for a cofounder with,

* A CS background (algorithms/ml)

* (Some) experience in implementing machine learning systems

* (Some) experience in low latency web services

* Generalist coding skills

In case you're into product stuff - lets chat as well!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9565645

What: classic online games (chess, bridge etc.)

http://www.playok.com/

http://www.kurnik.pl/ (in Polish)

Location: Warsaw, Poland

Stage: self-funded, profitable

Who: full-stack developer with strong html5/hybrid apps skills; obsessive about design, minimalism, ux

More info in Polish: http://www.kurnik.pl/misc/ninja/

I like the clean look of your games. Was it tough building traffic when you got started? How did you go about it?

I have a request, poker texas holdem please :P

Two player.. for now..

All I have for a simple poker game, that I can play is a flash game written 9 years back..? http://www.geewa.com/poker-texas-hold-em

all others are desktop apps with registration and things like that..

I was soo excited when I found your link and saw several games, only to realize there is no poker :(

Thank you..

We're building a 'TurboTax for personal financial plans.' Think LearnVest but automated instead of using human financial advisors. http://www.nickelhq.com

I'm a product designer and my co-founder is a certified financial planner. We're using lean startup and as of our eighth prototype I've maxed out my programming skills. We're looking for a technical co-founder to join us.

Contact me at victor (at) nickelhq.com

Great thread!

I created Post.As – a social platform for creating and sharing web pages. Drag and drop design with text/media/embedded players etc. "Instagram for web pages"

• Current version live at http://post.as: A very simple page creation tool - allows pushing pages out to feeds / following members.

•• The next version - simple page creation with ability to add powerful widgets for all kinds of social interaction. A social network like clay. Instead of content sitting inside of the social network's brand - every page on network is visually designed/owned by members. A kind of "subweb" vision with API for creation of widgets.

I am sole coder/designer (angularjs/rails). Looking to build team or find right collaboration.

A few example pages on current site: http://post.as/PostAs:9254687 - Mcsweeny's mashup http://post.as/DanNewman:6079957 - Hotel Utah show http://post.as/DanNewman:2782425 - Videos with original music

Email me: dan@post.as

I have a fashion-media startup called FutureClaw - it's both a print magazine and a website - that I bootstrapped and work on part-time over the last several years:

http://www.futureclaw.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FutureClaw

We've been featured in E!, Vanity Fair, Style.com, etc.

I do all aspects of the business myself, including graphic design, editing, writing, publicity, as well as full-stack web development in Django.

I also deal with hundreds/thousands of the worlds top fashion brands, creatives, publicists, etc., that I've carefully built relationships with over the years.

I'm looking for people that would like to create the next top fashion media brand. I'm open to ideas and also have a lot of original ideas in this space, from basic web-tech, to high-end e-commerce, advertising, photography, and more. All this could be based on what I've done and the relationships I've built.

These brand relationships are so important. I've seen so many fashion startups go under because they don't have work with the top brands or creative people, or are just out-of-touch stylistically and don't know the market.

Anyways my background is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mozumder

I'm in the Washington, DC area if you want to meet. You can contact me at: info@futureclaw.com

Disclaimer: I'm in the adult industry.

Not looking for a co-founder. But looking for someone who can help with a current project with ML (Machine Learning).

My company is in the ad space. I built the platform which is a mix of an ad server, tracking platform and email system with the data sharable among all pillars.

We buy traffic globally on a monthly basis and are able to generate our own banners, landing pages and email templates.

Through that inventory, we can spin any text and images for multi-variate testing. In addition, we can capture things like referrer, category, geo-location, mobile carrier/isp, device meta (30 data points), time spent on page, funnel activity and come out with many many data points for reporting to see what works and what doesn't.

I am looking for someone to help with the ML aspect. To analyse the data and optimise campaigns automatically, that is change the headline, call to action, hero image for the banner/landing page/offer page and also decide what is working and what not working across campaigns, pages, offers, images, text, etc. Potentially there is a lot of data to pour over.

In addition, I'd love to start figuring out how to analyse and catelog images in our repository. To give them scores and work out if certain images rank higher than others for certain categories.

Where I would want to get to. Is to get higher conversions for what we are selling when a user clicks a banner and lands on a specific sales page. Depending on the origin, the ML bot would test the best converting headline, copy, image for conversion and eventually have a winner.

If you want to talk more, hit me up on my username @gmail.com.

Thanks

Very appreciative of the replies I have had so far. Unfortunately, there are no positions for just software developers.

I'm looking specifically for Machine Learning developers and that you already have put a project consisting of ML into production already.

We are working on creating a smart ecommerce platform for women's clothing. People face following two problems while shopping online -

1. They are not able to buy all the matching things which can complete their look. Please visit here to see what I mean - http://www.janjuaclothing.com/black-white-net-dress . There is a section called 'Complete The Look'. We recommend items in this section based upon the current dress. This would be all done automatically. We are working on it

2. Finding the right size. We are also working on this. We will recommend perfect fitting brands\clothes to our users based upon their size. We are going to do without asking a single question to our users.

I am looking for a co-founder who have strong background in sales\marketing\business development especially in fashion industry. I have technical background. My email is in my profile.

Hi all,

Product designer here. My project is Bicycl. I'm reimagining the calendar app for freelancers and people who don't need to schedule every hour of every day.

Bicycl gives people a way to track their progress over time, starting with ideas and to-dos (future), to what you accomplish and learn (past).

http://bicycl.co

On a meta level, I'm fascinated by our perception of time--how we learn from our past, our personal cycles, how we expect things and believe in the future--and ultimately, how that impacts the rate at which we grow, progress, and create meaningful work.

On a practical level, there are gazillions of apps for managing future work, and only a small handful for retrospectives, but none that put it all together in a useful daily calendar, especially for the vast majority of people who don't use or need a schedule to micro-manage their time.

Over the past year, I've launched 2 mvp iterations to test different aspects of the concept (social, retrospective), and am now starting to build the next iteration. I'm open to receiving help in many forms. I'm a jack-of-all-trades (master of none), currently making a living as a designer based in Boulder, CO.

I'm mostly looking to join forces with an iOS developer. Though, a cofounder who can take a technical lead on all aspects of a consumer app's growth (eg Evernote) would be ideal. Local's great, but I've also been working successfully with people remotely forever. Talent and heart foremost.

So if you're interested, or have questions or inquiries, give me a shout at peter@bicycl.co or http://twitter.com/@crackedboulder.

PS. Long time lurker, first time poster. Thanks HN.

FYI - tried to add my email on your site and received error Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/bicyclco/public_html/download.php:4) in /home/bicyclco/public_html/download.php on line 48

Thanks Greg, fixed now.

I've developed https://www.ux-app.com, I'm looking for someone to partner up with who is interested in business development/marketing.

If you're a UX or Interaction Designer with an interest in business dev and marketing then I'd be keen to hear from you too.

my email is eli@ux-app.com

I'm working on developing open source pharmaceuticals. I'm located in Oakland, CA. The stage is "on-paper only". Looking mostly for someone who is on the business end of things (referrals welcome). I've got the tech down. I am probably okay at but could use help getting media attention, and I am probably not good at: wrangling legal issues, and (most importantly) developing business relationships with commercial partners.

The plan is to enter an incubator to pilot a proof of concept and then seek seed investment. I also have a strategic plan (hires, etc) on taking the seed to a series A with MVP potential.

Requirements: Passion for the idea of expanding open source. You're also willing for the company to make 1 billion, instead of 10, but leave the world a better place. An ability to understand and communicate either biology, code, or both.

Bonus points for experience in law/IP materials.

Contact info in profile.

Do you want to talk bioprinters? I got one built.

No, the short-term end goal is large-scale manufacturing of FDA-approved drugs. The long-term goal is to corner the manufacturing market.

What about all the generics manufacturers that already exist?

I'm a serial entrepreneur & young angel investor, with some coding background, but most of my value-add is in growth, sales, marketing, and other aspects of building a business. I'm searching for my next venture - to start or join - and seeking a talented tech founder or team, with some idea in dmind. I'm interested in / have insight into real estate, media, subscription services, uber-for-x. I also enjoy studying security, but have no special insight into the field, and am open to projects outside my core interests.

I'm happy to share more over email or skype. I don't have any particular project in mind (well, more specifically, I have too many projects in mind and can't seem to be inspired to dive into either of them full time just yet).

I'm also happy to provide some feedback and guidance on your project even if we don't end up working together.

What: HypedSound, http://www.hypedsound.com, soon to be http://www.hype.co, community where creatives can upload their media and sync their social networks to one simple, clean profile to showcase to their audience. Currently have API integrations with Facebook, Twitter, SoundCloud, YouTube, Instagram, and tumblr. Example: http://www.hypedsound.com/hypedsound

Stage: Self-funded, bootstrapping

Where: NYC, but willing to talk to people elsewhere

Who: Django developer who wants to help take the site and community to the next level. I'm the only person in the company, I work with freelancers, so I can offer very fair equity and possible stipend/contract work to start.

Contact: jonathan@hypedsound.com

I kind of am. Been doing done stuff since 2009, considering taking it past "personal project" and into something bigger.

I've refused money from, among others, NASA and Google.

http://www.robots-everywhere.com/

It looks awesome. Is there way to get in touch with you?

mkb@robots-everywhere will do it :)

Right now it's two of us. We are in NYC and Chicago. We raised a small amount of debt from an advisor. We have developed a long-short trading model based on data mining of SEC filings. We have innovated on academic white papers in our area. Between the two of us, we have a background in tech, software, math, sales, and marketing. Our latest selection model has a Sharpe over 90 but there are only one or two such opportunities per year; we have another model with Sharpe over 3 that offers more plentiful opportunities. We are looking for someone experienced and connected in quantitative finance to join the team. Email admin@armini.us with LinkedIn or whatever.

Looking For a Co-Founder

http://www.orbert.io/

iOS game launching in December 2015. Written in Swift 2.0 with mostly SpriteKit. Team is two: graphic designer + digital musician, also both programmer.

About you: have a Mac, use XCode, have been learning Swift. Want to download the most recent El Capitan beta and XCode 7. Are excited to work on a game for iOS 9, which includes the brand new Gameplay Kit and updated SpriteKit. BONUS POINTS: Have a game on the App Store. Are an Objective C ninja. Know how to use storyboards and GameKit for social add-ins.

E-Mail me if you're interested: joe@orbert.io

Compensation: We have no budget. You will earn 33% of the profits from the game.

One for the non-technical guys out there...

I'm working on Mondable - the best way to make new connections.

I started 1 month ago (in Zurich, CH) and have paying users & very strong growth. We're expanding to other cities (including NYC, London & Berlin) in July and I'm looking for non-technical people with experience in sales/marketing/UX, if possible with experience of the dating or headhunting industries.

Everything from a full cofounder position down to paid city-ambassador positions (3-5h/week, only in major cities) are on the table.

Get in touch via hireme@mondable.ch and find out more at http://www.mondable.ch

Thanks :)

Business person looking for a technical guy interested in building a location-based social discovery app. Particular market space open to be dominated :)

App is already designed and mapped out, high potential, already building interest with future users, just need a code warrior (or two) to build. Quit my job to work on this so I can only offer equity, but I can guarantee funding will come easy once we have an MVP out. I have already received interest from some investors, but I need a team and a usable product.

If you leave a comment with your contact info, I'll email you the link to the website so you can check it and see if it sparks your interest.

> but I can guarantee funding will come easy once we have an MVP out

you can't guarantee anything and this will be a huge red flag to anyone with half a brain

Haha, ok. So I was a bit salesy with my description :) I've already received offers of investments, but they were in small amounts (~10k) that I didn't ask for and didn't accept (why give equity for such small amounts?). Technically I could guarantee funding, but indeed, I can't guarantee specifics like how much, when. I can say that the likelihood is optimistic.

I'm working on an app for foodtrucks that's yelp/urban spoon on the consumer side, but for FoodTrucks it's a POS, Employee management, Catering Management tool. - List your meals for the day and location and all users will be able to find you on the map. They can also order on the app and skip the line to make you have more time to make food, than take orders. It'll also have loyalty programs built in, etc.. Price point will be around $50/month/truck. Also a free tier -just for listing current locations.

I'm working on vrcollab.com. We are trying to create a HTML like 3d standard and editor for virtual reality. How do you represent <table> in 3d? A 3d table.

We are located in sunny Singapore. We just got our first seed funding.

We are looking for another developer that is fluent in Javascript and interested in Webgl and WebVR. Or, Graphic (opengl) guy that is interested in bringing 3d to web.

It is an interesting project, the project will be open source (good career boost) and we got the funding! We will be providing Singapore working visa.

My email is jia@vrcollab.com

Umm... you know there is a standard for that. VRML was the original, but X3D is it's successor.

Yup, canvas to webgl SVG to X3d (declarative 3d)

But I want to build a modular html like standard with the power of web component. Drop me an email if you wan to discuss more!

I'm building an online community of rappers, lyricists, and producers to write and share rap songs, collaborate, learn how to freestyle, improve their craft, etc.

Tech + creative tools (natural language processing, lyrical analysis, etc.) + community = best place to get better at making hip hop.

http://www.rappad.co

This is a side project for me, but it's been going pretty well recently and I've gotten excited about it. I'm looking for anyone that would like to help.

It is built with Rails.

This is awesome, digging the site. Shoot me an email, it's in my profile.

An internet of things startup based on South East Asia, Indonesia. To be precise, Depok district in West Java. No funding at least for now (still struggling building the product). Currently we are creating something to easily track expedition truck. We are looking for people who understand about embedded system and ZigBee. Feel free to mail me d2F6YSBhdCBmYXN0bWFpbCBkb3QganA= (please decode that base64. I hate spam)

Hint: ODB bus, distributed network. At the backend, we use Postgres and Rails.

I'm actually looking for a biz dev/sales type person who is familiar with the digital ad sales space/publishing space.

Location doesn't matter right now except would be great if you were in a (relevant) major city. I'm in Bali right now, Malaysia & Singapore next week, Tokyo for the rest of July.

Product is there, currently talking to people about it.

Best to get me on advgeoff@gmail.com (Intentional obfuscation)

I'm looking for a cofounder. I am a Full Stack Developer with Android experience and getting into Swift. I am looking for either another developer, a designer or a business person. I'm working on a project to help people to maintain their weight or at least stop gaining weight and shift towards eating healthier food and exercise so they can be more productive and feel better.

This is something I am passionate about. Business person here. Email in my profile.

Also a business person. I am very into fitness and eating healthy. How can I contact you? Btw I'm not a "professional" designer, but I am pretty good and creating mock ups/wires as well.

kasmith@bgsu.edu

I have developed Nirror https://www.nirror.com/ a SaaS solution designed to support your customers on your website in real-time.

Looking for a bizdev / co-founder with experience on bootstrapping this kind of service.

The company is located in Paris, France but your location should not matter.

Contact me at tug@nirror.com

The project: file version control for the non - programming demographic.

Project status: About to release first version. Currently in the process of raising seed funding.

Looking for: Technical Co-Founder: Past Experience in Cloud infrastructure such as Azure/AWS/Rackspace. If you are not from a technical side, I would still love to hear from you.

Location: Bangalore, India

Contact: workatcatalyst@gmail.com

perforce?

I started in the design/marketing side of things and worked my way to the back-end. I created apps that you can see at http://maxsavin.com

I'm looking for a co-founder who would like to focus on back-end so I can get back to design/marketing/etc.

If you're interested in fashion & tech and based out of NYC, hit me up - arithmetic@gmail.com

Just saw this a day late :(

I'm looking to join with someone(s) to help collaborate on ideas and build something. I have an idea curation list on Trello. If anyone wants to look at it and add to it, possibly join forces let me know -

jxm262@gmail.com

Can't you just post a public link? I would love to have a look and add something.

Currently working on Uber for supercomputers. Would appreciate someone who is also college-aged in the Seattle/ north Puget Sound area.

I've got a website and a working prototype. If interested, email chroem@uw.edu .

What is "Uber for supercomputers?" I can't think of any interpretation that makes any sense to me.

"The Cloud"

time sharing

It's a volunteer supercomputer network made from commodity PC's.

Should checkout http://scienceexchange.com/ while not the target, you can get access to super computers through the marketplace.

Looking for: a domain expert with a great idea they want help on executing

Me: a full stack developer with some startup & business experience

Why: I have savings and a drive to launch a startup, but no good ideas

Where: NYC currently

Contact: me@morgante.net

What: Open Source Firebase, http://gunDB.io/ . Realtime, graph, decentralized, javascript database.

Stage: Funded, seed stage, with Tim Draper as lead investor.

Where: SD, LA, SF, and currently: Provo, Utah.

Who: A co-founder that has an academic/technical background and industry respect in databases, and wants to do more administrative/business/Series-A/enterprise/sales/marketing side of the coin.

Offer: 20% of the company, a small "cover your needs" $60k salary to start.

mark@gunDB.io

This looks very cool. Can't wait to try it out.

looks really interesting, not knowledgeable enough to add value but I'll be excited to see this in action!

I find myself needing this every other week. Best of luck. I wish I had time to be more than an onlooker.

I'd like to build a competitor to Betterment. I'm looking for someone to help me follow the steps to becoming a brokerage, find funding, and to build the app and website and tools needed. I found this http://www.investopedia.com/professionals/faqs/general/21010... I have the domain greenrobot.com and an LLC. My email is andy at greenrobot.com

Looking for a co-founder who has a strong ML background for SaaS business in retail/brick'n'mortar space.

ML as in MatLab or OCaml/Standard ML?

Probably machine learning?

He means machine learning.

I guess this further shows how ambiguous of an acronym ML is.

Wait, which Machine Language are we talking about?

looking for a cofounder with experience in apache spark, rails, and search.

I founded http://bookprice.co .. feel free to hit me up at team@bookprice.co if you are interested in building a search and fulfillment engine for not just books ;)

Looking for folks who are interested in working on IoT startups. Hit me up if this interests you!

Hey, I'm interested and have relevant tech and non-tech background in the space. My email is in my profile; couldn't find yours.

It might? IoT is _slightly_ nonspecific.

It does.

jamm@outlook.com

Thanks.

tech guy with domain proximiny.com

interested in playing around with ideas involving mobile/local based on user location.

if you share the same interest, hit me up at lbs@proximiny.com and let's chat to see if there's a match

located in nyc

matt

I'm looking for a technical co-founder for a geolocation app.

Currently working on a new type of design course at http://designflicks.com which aims to teach good visual design to coders, startups, beginners who basically start crying when it comes to designing nice things.

People who can build things but not nice looking things is our target market. The videos are creating using a inhouse animation engine which provides some cool effects right in the browser which is then screencasted for production.

Based in India, feel free to contact me @ rubyontails@gmail.com

I am looking to team up with designers who can design good looking things with a logical explaination. Also looking for people who can market and sell the course. Location isn't a problem since remote work is pretty good for me.

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