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My Startup: A place for potential founders to meet
This isn't so much a new business as a new side project of mine. I've noticed a lot of people here and on other blogs and news sites saying how much they would like a place to find business partners. So in my spare time I put together http://www.FounderLink.com to fill this space. I've tried not to make just another social networking site and I am trying to keep the features as few and focused as possible while still being useful for the core functionality(Meeting potential business partners).
Any feedback or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
- chaostheory 19y agothere's already a couple out there: http://cofoundr.com http://cofoundr.com http://partnerup.com http://partnerup.com like yours, they have various strengths; but a consistent weakness is that there's no inherrent reason for anyone to come back unlike say yc news or meetup.com
- sanswork 19y agoThank you for the links. I agree that there is very little reason for people to keep going back once they have found a business partner which is why I'm keeping this firmly in the side project area. I think the biggest issue is that unlike other partner matching sites(dating sites) you're not likely to get many people looking for casual short term business partnerships. :) Thanks again for the comments.
- hooande 19y agopartnerup asks for money before you can do anything useful
- craig-faber 19y agoThanks. I'll use it.
- sanswork 19y agoGreat I hope it's useful for you, let me know if you find any issues or have any suggestions.
- truebosko 19y agoMy suggestion: - Fix your site in Firefox - Don't ask me to login / signup right away without giving me more info. Here's your intro page for me btw: http://www.simplebucket.com/p/mdeymdg.jpg http://www.simplebucket.com/p/mdeymdg.jpg
- sanswork 19y agoThanks for the tip. Which OS are you using if you don't mind me asking? I do all my development in Firefox(latest stable release) in Leopard. I agree with the login part and I am working on a demo/walkthrough for new users as part of an overall redesign of the landing page which is pretty blegh at the moment. But I'm not a very good designer, so if you know one perhaps recommend them to the site. :)
- paulsb 19y agoHas this anything to do with: http://www.founderslink.com/ http://www.founderslink.com/ (with the 's' in there)?
- khangtoh 19y agohttp://Programmermeetdesigner.com http://Programmermeetdesigner.com is quite popular as well for people trying to find someone to collaborate on a project/startup
- jaed 19y agoI was going to do a similar site like this last summer but decided not to. I'm looking to ditch the domain CoFoundMe.com for cheap if you're interested.
- jeroen 19y agoThe css for #tabnav li could use a cursor: pointer. And the min-width: 970px for #content makes the site scroll horizontally for me, while it has an awful lot of whitespace. You could easily remove some whitespace to prevent the horizontal scrolling.
- tx 19y agoMan I am so tired of "Sign Up!" buttons... Pass.
- sanswork 19y agoAny recommendations on how to get around requiring users to sign up? You can put in your OpenID url and receive full access that way but how else can I authenticate users without requiring them to sign up?