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I'm working on a Product Hunt competitor at the moment and I'm looking for a technical co-founder. If anyone is interested, please email or DM me on twitter.

asenna 11y ago
I'm guessing you've looked into http://www.telescopeapp.org/ http://www.telescopeapp.org/ ? If not, I'd really recommend you do so and also learn some Meteor.js. It's great for beginners.
- mrmondo 11y ago
  I really dislike when sites / products claim 'The easiest way...' or 'The best way...'. Its a statement that immediately makes me question the product, if something really is 'the best' as in 'the be all and end all' of something, I don't think it'll ever claim to be such.
  - asenna 11y ago
    Yep. I totally agree with you on that. But going past that marketing talk, sometimes the products do turn out to be pretty good. I say this with experience having worked with Meteor for the past year and also some playing around with Telescope. It is worth checking out especially since it caters to a person like parent of my comment. Setting up a customizable ProductHunt style website without much effort/coding can be a good start till you get more proficient with code or find a technical co-founder.
  - unclebucknasty 11y ago
    I just read it as an attempt to make the case for why anyone should care about them. Just a slightly less ambivalent formulation of "a pretty good way to do X".
- touchofevil 11y ago
  I actually created a site using telescopeapp.org in the past! When reddit's AMA section went on strike, I created Skhool.me Telescope won't work for my current project, unfortunately.
sergiotapia 11y ago
Are you an idea guy, or actually working on the code as well?
- touchofevil 11y ago
  ...I'm learning to code...(sound of pitchforks rustling)
  - goldenkey 11y ago
    For anything early enough such as an MVP, you will be utterly useless. You need a programmer. However a programmer really doesn't need you.
    - rl3 11y ago
      Ryan Hoover didn't know how to code. Product Hunt literally started as an e-mail list because of that, and the rest is history.
    - adrianmacneil 11y ago
      This may or may not be true, but we should be more accepting of people who want to start companies rather than simply telling them they are not necessary.
      - funkyy 11y ago
        To be completely honest, idea is just 10% of business. Any one man startup creator will confirm imo. Idea is good, but idea will not get you 50% shares of a project. Obviously people should open businesses - but hey, there are so many ways to do it. If you have ONLY idea, then do this two steps: -learn basics of languages needed to start it on Codecademy so you can also help in testing, double checking code and writing some small things - like initial code for the website so the developer can focus on important things -learn some marketing and business. Those are not that hard actually and best resources are forums imo. Start with Fastlane forum, BHW forum and BuilderSociety. All information you need for making successful startup are on this forums. Then read a bit about other startups on Medium and especially focus on startup postmortem - VERY important to learn from their mistakes. All of this will take you 2-3 months to learn assuming you spend ~4 hours every day on them. While doing it all socialize like crazy liking and interacting with people from your startups niche on Twitter and Facebook. Once you are done you have skills necessary to be very good idea co-funder that will bring enough to the table to want 50%.
codesushi42 11y ago
I have no idea whether this is satire or you're being serious. +1
- touchofevil 11y ago
  "I'm always serious." - Dr. Egon Spengler
arasmussen 11y ago
I've got an awesome idea for a cool song! Any musicians out there to play it for me?
- touchofevil 11y ago
  You mean, like a band?

asenna 11y ago

I'm guessing you've looked into http://www.telescopeapp.org/ http://www.telescopeapp.org/ ? If not, I'd really recommend you do so and also learn some Meteor.js. It's great for beginners.

mrmondo 11y ago
I really dislike when sites / products claim 'The easiest way...' or 'The best way...'. Its a statement that immediately makes me question the product, if something really is 'the best' as in 'the be all and end all' of something, I don't think it'll ever claim to be such.
- asenna 11y ago
  Yep. I totally agree with you on that. But going past that marketing talk, sometimes the products do turn out to be pretty good. I say this with experience having worked with Meteor for the past year and also some playing around with Telescope. It is worth checking out especially since it caters to a person like parent of my comment. Setting up a customizable ProductHunt style website without much effort/coding can be a good start till you get more proficient with code or find a technical co-founder.
- unclebucknasty 11y ago
  I just read it as an attempt to make the case for why anyone should care about them. Just a slightly less ambivalent formulation of "a pretty good way to do X".
touchofevil 11y ago
I actually created a site using telescopeapp.org in the past! When reddit's AMA section went on strike, I created Skhool.me Telescope won't work for my current project, unfortunately.

sergiotapia 11y ago

Are you an idea guy, or actually working on the code as well?

touchofevil 11y ago
...I'm learning to code...(sound of pitchforks rustling)
- goldenkey 11y ago
  For anything early enough such as an MVP, you will be utterly useless. You need a programmer. However a programmer really doesn't need you.
  - rl3 11y ago
    Ryan Hoover didn't know how to code. Product Hunt literally started as an e-mail list because of that, and the rest is history.
  - adrianmacneil 11y ago
    This may or may not be true, but we should be more accepting of people who want to start companies rather than simply telling them they are not necessary.
    - funkyy 11y ago
      To be completely honest, idea is just 10% of business. Any one man startup creator will confirm imo. Idea is good, but idea will not get you 50% shares of a project. Obviously people should open businesses - but hey, there are so many ways to do it. If you have ONLY idea, then do this two steps: -learn basics of languages needed to start it on Codecademy so you can also help in testing, double checking code and writing some small things - like initial code for the website so the developer can focus on important things -learn some marketing and business. Those are not that hard actually and best resources are forums imo. Start with Fastlane forum, BHW forum and BuilderSociety. All information you need for making successful startup are on this forums. Then read a bit about other startups on Medium and especially focus on startup postmortem - VERY important to learn from their mistakes. All of this will take you 2-3 months to learn assuming you spend ~4 hours every day on them. While doing it all socialize like crazy liking and interacting with people from your startups niche on Twitter and Facebook. Once you are done you have skills necessary to be very good idea co-funder that will bring enough to the table to want 50%.

codesushi42 11y ago

I have no idea whether this is satire or you're being serious. +1

touchofevil 11y ago
"I'm always serious." - Dr. Egon Spengler

arasmussen 11y ago

I've got an awesome idea for a cool song! Any musicians out there to play it for me?

touchofevil 11y ago
You mean, like a band?