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Show HN: Find a co-hacker for your project

149 points by bloatedcarpel 9y ago

wolco 9y ago
Great idea hope I remember this link when I'm in need of a partner.
quadcore 9y ago
The biggest challenge I've seen so far to find a co-founder is that you need good reasons to spend time with the person before you screw anything because you actually dont "match" with the person. The process is awkward socially. Therefore, meeting someone for the reason of wanting to co-found a company is probably not the best way to find a cofounder. Going back to university or going to hackatons works probably better. Though, maybe what would work as an app for example would be to collaborate on fake projects because that way you sure you wont screw anything.
- bloatedcarpel 9y ago
  I agree with this sentiment with regards to more formal businesses. Like you say, you don't want to screw those up. But for smaller, side projects, I think this is usefull. I also believe in the "shotgun" method of pushing out an MVP, guaging the response, and seeing what sticks. This could be the perfect thing for finding someone to build "shotgun" kinds of projects with.
  - rgbrenner 9y ago
    And if the MVP is successful.. then what? Aren't you back to the 'formal business' problem?
    - bloatedcarpel 9y ago
      Yes, and individuals should be cautious about the terms they agree to when people are interested in pairing up. I used the term "co-hackers" on the site specifically, meaning people can pair up to work on projects together, not necessarily as co-founders.
      - quadcore 9y ago
        I like co-hackers. Sounds exciting without being to formal.
bootcat 9y ago
Great project, hope it works as advertised. I had asked for support in hackernews for supporters and co founders who can contribute and grow a product !
dharness 9y ago
I find the airtable kind of cluttery. All the content is on the far left, why not use the full width of the page? Then it opens the description in this tiny little window...
- bloatedcarpel 9y ago
  I agree. I'm open to using another service, but Airtable seems to be the best fit for now.
alain94040 9y ago
Mandatory post: Finding a Co-Founder (https://medium.com/p/259bb428377f https://medium.com/p/259bb428377f) The best co-founder is someone you’ve already worked with.
- onion2k 9y ago
  That article conflates "least risky" with "best".
alant 9y ago
A lot of people are in need of a partner / cofounder including myself. However just like dating, this is a hard problem to solve. I hope this helps!
rgbrenner 9y ago
Sorry bloatedcarpel, but I've always thought this is a terrible idea... I've been a solo-founder for 15 years, and I'll admit a co-founder would be awesome. But starting a company is not a walk in the park.. things are going to go wrong. It's not going to go as planned, you're going to feel like quitting at some point... And you have to trust this person you just met to handle that, resolve differences of opinion on the company, etc all while barely knowing how this person behaves under pressure, with their livelihood on the line (or their unrealistic dreams of riches). It would be some kind of miracle if it actually works out with a random person. I would never do it.
- bloatedcarpel 9y ago
  While I understand this angle, I do think this can be helpful to people with smaller side projects.
  - rgbrenner 9y ago
    thanks for the clarification, and removing "co-founder" from the hn title. For side projects it could be useful.
    - bloatedcarpel 9y ago
      Sure thing.
- jnordwick 9y ago
  > I've been a solo-founder for 15 years > I would never do it. So, it sounds more like you would never have a cofounder anyways. This idea probably isn't aimed at somebody who after 15 years still can't find someone available that they can trust. (P.s. dear hn, fix your formatting ability to bee able to have a line break without a paragraph break, or maybe block quote actually be useable)
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stochastic_monk 9y ago
Does anyone else get this error? "An error occurred during a connection to projectboard.xyz. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG"
Nuzzerino 9y ago
I've seen idea boards and similar projects to these in the past. What inevitably happens is the board gets flooded with lousy ideas, which are hard to filter out or sift through. Credibility weakens, leading to a bias toward people who don't see that as a red flag, and therefore a bias toward more bad ideas. I think that with a novel and effective solution, it may be possible to turn the tables and bias toward the best ideas being most accessible. Assuming you have to try something, how would you attempt to improve that situation? And finally, if someone claimed to have some promising ideas on how to improve it, would you be open to pursuing joining forces with them as a co-founder? If not, what do you think might be a different strategy to take to have this project stand out?
- bloatedcarpel 9y ago
  I'm trying to implement voting, so valuable ideas needing co-hackers show first (just need to find a way to integrate with airtable). To your second question, I'd definitely be interested in hearing you out.
mzzter 9y ago
I noticed very few of the projects list skills that the poster has. This is a big turnoff for any potential collaborator. One would want to know what the poster brings to the table skill-wise, too. Then I tried submitting a project and realized why: I can’t find a field that lets me add the skills I think I already have. Is it the optional “Specific Skills Needed” field? If so, it’s unclear that it becomes the “Skills I Already Have” section once rendered.
- bloatedcarpel 9y ago
  Thanks! Fixed now.
phoe-krk 9y ago
"Specific Skills Needed" has no option of supplying user-provided skills. I would like to insert Common Lisp there, but the most suitable option is "other", which is not specific at all.
- bloatedcarpel 9y ago
  I included Common Lisp as an option. I don't think airtable allows for users to input custom values. I'll need to think of a workaround.
ytNumbers 9y ago
McAfee Web Advisor has labeled your web site as not to be trusted. I was so looking forward to seeing what you built. Perhaps your site has been compromised in some way?
- thomaskcr 9y ago
  Could just be the .xyz domain -- I've been getting emails filtered just by including a .xyz link in the body from a personal account (i.e. not automated). A lot of web filters seem to just block all of .xyz by default. I have started only using that domain for development work - the domains are like 0.99 each so it works pretty well for that.
- matthew349hall 9y ago
  Perhaps you should get rid of your antivirus.
- Flavius 9y ago
  I am sorry, but this might be the solution to your problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg
- smoyer 9y ago
  Even John McAfee recommends you uninstall the McAfee security software.
- bloatedcarpel 9y ago
  Hmm. Looking into this now.
- akvadrako 9y ago
  Who cares what a McAfee product says?
kylesf 9y ago
Seems like a really great idea for small projects to help grow your skills. Also seems like a great place to spawn some open source projects. As an aside, I think it would be neat to sort open source projects by technical skills needed.
- bloatedcarpel 9y ago
  Thanks! Added Open Source as an option.
dktp 9y ago
This is a very stripped down version of a platform I'm currently creating with a friend. I love the idea, obviously. And I like the implementation. Simple (no registration too!) and understandable. And unlike many others here I think something like this is very much missing and could, in fact, bring a lot of interesting projects to life. Yes, like everyone else mentioned, there are a ton of problems with finding a co-founder like this. But not every project needs to be a company and not every project needs to make money. Especially on the web. Which is why the platform I'm building tries to focus on non-profit projects. Or rather, projects you want to build/help build because you want the project to exist, rather than to make money off of it. An example project that I wanted to make some time ago: I want(ed) to create a platform with all hip-hop artists, where anyone could write an opinionated, subjective, hopefully positive introduction to an artist they admire. The idea behind it is that there's plenty of artists that get bad reviews/critics but have a huge fanbase - so the fans could write what they like about the artist so much, rather than just seeing the "industry-respected" reviews and critics. Basically, get introduced to a new artist through someone who loves him already, rather than from someone who mainly critics him. Now I'm very confident in my web development (and hip-hop) knowledge. But I have no eye for design whatsoever. I couldn't make a beautiful interface to save my life. And the project is not start-up material since there's no business model around it and it's hard to get someone you know interested who can design and is interested in hip hop (or at least my project idea). In my circle that left me with 0 people. But I think a platform like poster's, if popular enough, could bring projects like these to life.
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throwaway_491 9y ago
I can't agree more. I understand the Silicon Valley bias against solo founders given that most celebrated founders are very young and in your twenties you don't yet have a well developed support system. Building a company is hard but it's really not that much harder than other things that are truly worth doing and haven't been done yet. Virtually everything worth doing is about failing repeatedly as you try for the few bits of success that you build on and turn into something truly worthwhile and this repeated failure is going to hurt your self-esteem badly unless you have a strong support system. If you already have a support system, you may be better off without a co-founder unless there is someone you almost have to have. I've had success building companies more than once as a solo-founder. Having tried it now with a co-founder, I would be very, very wary of doing it that way again, and I didn't try it with a "random" person.
git-pull 9y ago
Here's why I advise extreme caution when partnering up if you're a programmer: If you have a co-founder or co-hacker that goes postal, off on their own, acting shady, behaving badly, for whatever reason, you're lost at sea. If you don't have a safety net or savings in place to catch you, you're going to be living on the street. Thanks to someone else. You can't control other people. Your co-whatever could become a saboteur. The reasons why and how don't matter, it's about the ramification on your life and how deeply it reverberates. If that's the only thing you have going - your life is wrecked. You're humiliated by being kicked out of what you created. You have to start over, with an added penalty to all your family you can't support, your networking in tatters, and so on. Make no mistake - have a co-founder - you're one person away from having collateral damage done to your life. And they'll probably make the company tank afterwards. The main reason a co-founder was there was to keep each other's ideas/egos/visions/whatever in-check. Without that personality mechanism in place, the business is rudderless. So consider me a skeptic to this whole idea of sharing when I coded everything without safeguards in place for myself. That's the exact opposite reason I run my own thing. This is the one thing where I get control. If you got cash stashed away somehow, or other cash flow sources, you're in a safer spot to take your chances with a co-founder and bounce back should stuff hit the fan.
- godzillabrennus 9y ago
  There is so much truth to this. Just because someone is a good programmer doesn’t mean they will be a good partner in a venture.
- jnordwick 9y ago
  Why is this specific to being a programmer? This applies equally to every start up entrepreneur, from artists to inventor. And if you only waited until you have a firm financial backing behind you and you alone with nobody to split risk with, we wouldn't have very many start ups.
  - git-pull 9y ago
    > And if you only waited until you have a firm financial backing behind you and you alone with nobody to split risk with, we wouldn't have very many start ups. A programmer doesn't have to wait. Try to take it from a programmer's perspective: We already have ideas. There's a huge supply of programmers. One's that'd be happy to write an MVP for that inventor/artist/etc in exchange for 20k. But I guarantee you there's zero programmers waiting around, saying to themselves, "If only I had a visionary come along to give me an idea" Programmer's get used to it. But at least once per year many of us hear something like, "I have a vision", "I got this idea, psst", because you can guarantee 99% of the time, they're not willing to put any cash into it themselves. What I get is a person bossing me around, while I don't get paid, and I absorb all the risk of their idea. > This applies equally to every start up entrepreneur, from artists to inventor. If I take on a co-founder, co-hacker, inventor, what do I get? What role do they play? The "ideas guy". My above post was based on the assumption they have a 50% split. But since they view themselves as the unique, creative force behind everything, they want 51%. Maybe more. Now, this co-founder thing would make sense if we laid transparent ground rules up front: while all this comes into formation, am I getting paid while I'm crafting this "vision"? Programmers are in a unique position when it comes to tech startups. They can bootstrap by themselves. The burden lies on the prospective co-founder to balance that contribution through something more than dictating and having ideas. That usually is them going out and raising a seed or self-funding.
smoyer 9y ago
I have a reasonably large computer screen but when I select a project, the dialog is significantly taller than the screen and I have to scroll up to read it top-to-bottom. As I read I scroll down (of course) and then have to scroll back to the top to hit the close button. I suspect the portrait orientation works better on a phone/tablet but this process means that I've lost my place in the main list manipulating the dialog.
- bloatedcarpel 9y ago
  Yes, I'm not too happy with Airtable's layout. Will be building this out as a stand-alone web app.
chriszelazo 9y ago
It makes me happy to see one of these populated by people motivated to do a project. There were endless student projects like this in college to find a ___.
richard___ 9y ago
I made something similar, didn't take off: https://pushboard.net/ https://pushboard.net/
- jarofgreen 9y ago
  Any thoughts as to why that you can share? Thanks :-)
eterm 9y ago
If anyone wants this in an easier to read format and without the double scrollbars (and with far fewer trackers loaded) it's also available directly at https://airtable.com/shrbKl9sxaFJqtjAN/tblzm60W80AwbPLJj?backgroundColor=gray&layout=card&viewControls=on https://airtable.com/shrbKl9sxaFJqtjAN/tblzm60W80AwbPLJj?bac...
muzani 9y ago
I think this is a great idea. As someone who has worked with (and been screwed over by) lots of people, my main advice to those using this is to just trust your instincts. Your instincts are part of your decades of experience knowing people. Most of the time, you'll know if someone is a shady type.
vesche 9y ago
It would be cool if you could search by language.
- bloatedcarpel 9y ago
  Coding our country language? You can filter the view by coding language.
xstartup 9y ago
As someone who started 5 companies with different cofounders in last 10 years. I've lost 50K with in first startup, 200K in second startup, 300K in third startup, 500K in 4th startup and 5th startup is ongoing. Co-founders ripped me out of this much money in all cases! All startups were making loss and I sold each one of them for 10-20x the of my personal loss.

149 points by bloatedcarpel 9y ago

Great idea hope I remember this link when I'm in need of a partner.

The biggest challenge I've seen so far to find a co-founder is that you need good reasons to spend time with the person before you screw anything because you actually dont "match" with the person. The process is awkward socially. Therefore, meeting someone for the reason of wanting to co-found a company is probably not the best way to find a cofounder. Going back to university or going to hackatons works probably better. Though, maybe what would work as an app for example would be to collaborate on fake projects because that way you sure you wont screw anything.

bloatedcarpel 9y ago
I agree with this sentiment with regards to more formal businesses. Like you say, you don't want to screw those up. But for smaller, side projects, I think this is usefull. I also believe in the "shotgun" method of pushing out an MVP, guaging the response, and seeing what sticks. This could be the perfect thing for finding someone to build "shotgun" kinds of projects with.
- rgbrenner 9y ago
  And if the MVP is successful.. then what? Aren't you back to the 'formal business' problem?
  - bloatedcarpel 9y ago
    Yes, and individuals should be cautious about the terms they agree to when people are interested in pairing up. I used the term "co-hackers" on the site specifically, meaning people can pair up to work on projects together, not necessarily as co-founders.
    - quadcore 9y ago
      I like co-hackers. Sounds exciting without being to formal.

bootcat 9y ago

Great project, hope it works as advertised. I had asked for support in hackernews for supporters and co founders who can contribute and grow a product !

dharness 9y ago

I find the airtable kind of cluttery. All the content is on the far left, why not use the full width of the page? Then it opens the description in this tiny little window...

bloatedcarpel 9y ago
I agree. I'm open to using another service, but Airtable seems to be the best fit for now.

alain94040 9y ago

Mandatory post: Finding a Co-Founder (https://medium.com/p/259bb428377f https://medium.com/p/259bb428377f) The best co-founder is someone you’ve already worked with.

onion2k 9y ago
That article conflates "least risky" with "best".

alant 9y ago

A lot of people are in need of a partner / cofounder including myself. However just like dating, this is a hard problem to solve. I hope this helps!

rgbrenner 9y ago

Sorry bloatedcarpel, but I've always thought this is a terrible idea... I've been a solo-founder for 15 years, and I'll admit a co-founder would be awesome. But starting a company is not a walk in the park.. things are going to go wrong. It's not going to go as planned, you're going to feel like quitting at some point... And you have to trust this person you just met to handle that, resolve differences of opinion on the company, etc all while barely knowing how this person behaves under pressure, with their livelihood on the line (or their unrealistic dreams of riches). It would be some kind of miracle if it actually works out with a random person. I would never do it.

bloatedcarpel 9y ago
While I understand this angle, I do think this can be helpful to people with smaller side projects.
- rgbrenner 9y ago
  thanks for the clarification, and removing "co-founder" from the hn title. For side projects it could be useful.
  - bloatedcarpel 9y ago
    Sure thing.
jnordwick 9y ago
> I've been a solo-founder for 15 years > I would never do it. So, it sounds more like you would never have a cofounder anyways. This idea probably isn't aimed at somebody who after 15 years still can't find someone available that they can trust. (P.s. dear hn, fix your formatting ability to bee able to have a line break without a paragraph break, or maybe block quote actually be useable)
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stochastic_monk 9y ago

Does anyone else get this error? "An error occurred during a connection to projectboard.xyz. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG"

Nuzzerino 9y ago

I've seen idea boards and similar projects to these in the past. What inevitably happens is the board gets flooded with lousy ideas, which are hard to filter out or sift through. Credibility weakens, leading to a bias toward people who don't see that as a red flag, and therefore a bias toward more bad ideas. I think that with a novel and effective solution, it may be possible to turn the tables and bias toward the best ideas being most accessible. Assuming you have to try something, how would you attempt to improve that situation? And finally, if someone claimed to have some promising ideas on how to improve it, would you be open to pursuing joining forces with them as a co-founder? If not, what do you think might be a different strategy to take to have this project stand out?

bloatedcarpel 9y ago
I'm trying to implement voting, so valuable ideas needing co-hackers show first (just need to find a way to integrate with airtable). To your second question, I'd definitely be interested in hearing you out.

mzzter 9y ago

I noticed very few of the projects list skills that the poster has. This is a big turnoff for any potential collaborator. One would want to know what the poster brings to the table skill-wise, too. Then I tried submitting a project and realized why: I can’t find a field that lets me add the skills I think I already have. Is it the optional “Specific Skills Needed” field? If so, it’s unclear that it becomes the “Skills I Already Have” section once rendered.

bloatedcarpel 9y ago
Thanks! Fixed now.

phoe-krk 9y ago

"Specific Skills Needed" has no option of supplying user-provided skills. I would like to insert Common Lisp there, but the most suitable option is "other", which is not specific at all.

bloatedcarpel 9y ago
I included Common Lisp as an option. I don't think airtable allows for users to input custom values. I'll need to think of a workaround.

ytNumbers 9y ago

McAfee Web Advisor has labeled your web site as not to be trusted. I was so looking forward to seeing what you built. Perhaps your site has been compromised in some way?

thomaskcr 9y ago
Could just be the .xyz domain -- I've been getting emails filtered just by including a .xyz link in the body from a personal account (i.e. not automated). A lot of web filters seem to just block all of .xyz by default. I have started only using that domain for development work - the domains are like 0.99 each so it works pretty well for that.
matthew349hall 9y ago
Perhaps you should get rid of your antivirus.
Flavius 9y ago
I am sorry, but this might be the solution to your problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg
smoyer 9y ago
Even John McAfee recommends you uninstall the McAfee security software.
bloatedcarpel 9y ago
Hmm. Looking into this now.
akvadrako 9y ago
Who cares what a McAfee product says?

kylesf 9y ago

Seems like a really great idea for small projects to help grow your skills. Also seems like a great place to spawn some open source projects. As an aside, I think it would be neat to sort open source projects by technical skills needed.

bloatedcarpel 9y ago
Thanks! Added Open Source as an option.

dktp 9y ago

This is a very stripped down version of a platform I'm currently creating with a friend. I love the idea, obviously. And I like the implementation. Simple (no registration too!) and understandable. And unlike many others here I think something like this is very much missing and could, in fact, bring a lot of interesting projects to life. Yes, like everyone else mentioned, there are a ton of problems with finding a co-founder like this. But not every project needs to be a company and not every project needs to make money. Especially on the web. Which is why the platform I'm building tries to focus on non-profit projects. Or rather, projects you want to build/help build because you want the project to exist, rather than to make money off of it. An example project that I wanted to make some time ago: I want(ed) to create a platform with all hip-hop artists, where anyone could write an opinionated, subjective, hopefully positive introduction to an artist they admire. The idea behind it is that there's plenty of artists that get bad reviews/critics but have a huge fanbase - so the fans could write what they like about the artist so much, rather than just seeing the "industry-respected" reviews and critics. Basically, get introduced to a new artist through someone who loves him already, rather than from someone who mainly critics him. Now I'm very confident in my web development (and hip-hop) knowledge. But I have no eye for design whatsoever. I couldn't make a beautiful interface to save my life. And the project is not start-up material since there's no business model around it and it's hard to get someone you know interested who can design and is interested in hip hop (or at least my project idea). In my circle that left me with 0 people. But I think a platform like poster's, if popular enough, could bring projects like these to life.

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throwaway_491 9y ago

I can't agree more. I understand the Silicon Valley bias against solo founders given that most celebrated founders are very young and in your twenties you don't yet have a well developed support system. Building a company is hard but it's really not that much harder than other things that are truly worth doing and haven't been done yet. Virtually everything worth doing is about failing repeatedly as you try for the few bits of success that you build on and turn into something truly worthwhile and this repeated failure is going to hurt your self-esteem badly unless you have a strong support system. If you already have a support system, you may be better off without a co-founder unless there is someone you almost have to have. I've had success building companies more than once as a solo-founder. Having tried it now with a co-founder, I would be very, very wary of doing it that way again, and I didn't try it with a "random" person.

git-pull 9y ago

Here's why I advise extreme caution when partnering up if you're a programmer: If you have a co-founder or co-hacker that goes postal, off on their own, acting shady, behaving badly, for whatever reason, you're lost at sea. If you don't have a safety net or savings in place to catch you, you're going to be living on the street. Thanks to someone else. You can't control other people. Your co-whatever could become a saboteur. The reasons why and how don't matter, it's about the ramification on your life and how deeply it reverberates. If that's the only thing you have going - your life is wrecked. You're humiliated by being kicked out of what you created. You have to start over, with an added penalty to all your family you can't support, your networking in tatters, and so on. Make no mistake - have a co-founder - you're one person away from having collateral damage done to your life. And they'll probably make the company tank afterwards. The main reason a co-founder was there was to keep each other's ideas/egos/visions/whatever in-check. Without that personality mechanism in place, the business is rudderless. So consider me a skeptic to this whole idea of sharing when I coded everything without safeguards in place for myself. That's the exact opposite reason I run my own thing. This is the one thing where I get control. If you got cash stashed away somehow, or other cash flow sources, you're in a safer spot to take your chances with a co-founder and bounce back should stuff hit the fan.

godzillabrennus 9y ago
There is so much truth to this. Just because someone is a good programmer doesn’t mean they will be a good partner in a venture.
jnordwick 9y ago
Why is this specific to being a programmer? This applies equally to every start up entrepreneur, from artists to inventor. And if you only waited until you have a firm financial backing behind you and you alone with nobody to split risk with, we wouldn't have very many start ups.
- git-pull 9y ago
  > And if you only waited until you have a firm financial backing behind you and you alone with nobody to split risk with, we wouldn't have very many start ups. A programmer doesn't have to wait. Try to take it from a programmer's perspective: We already have ideas. There's a huge supply of programmers. One's that'd be happy to write an MVP for that inventor/artist/etc in exchange for 20k. But I guarantee you there's zero programmers waiting around, saying to themselves, "If only I had a visionary come along to give me an idea" Programmer's get used to it. But at least once per year many of us hear something like, "I have a vision", "I got this idea, psst", because you can guarantee 99% of the time, they're not willing to put any cash into it themselves. What I get is a person bossing me around, while I don't get paid, and I absorb all the risk of their idea. > This applies equally to every start up entrepreneur, from artists to inventor. If I take on a co-founder, co-hacker, inventor, what do I get? What role do they play? The "ideas guy". My above post was based on the assumption they have a 50% split. But since they view themselves as the unique, creative force behind everything, they want 51%. Maybe more. Now, this co-founder thing would make sense if we laid transparent ground rules up front: while all this comes into formation, am I getting paid while I'm crafting this "vision"? Programmers are in a unique position when it comes to tech startups. They can bootstrap by themselves. The burden lies on the prospective co-founder to balance that contribution through something more than dictating and having ideas. That usually is them going out and raising a seed or self-funding.

smoyer 9y ago

I have a reasonably large computer screen but when I select a project, the dialog is significantly taller than the screen and I have to scroll up to read it top-to-bottom. As I read I scroll down (of course) and then have to scroll back to the top to hit the close button. I suspect the portrait orientation works better on a phone/tablet but this process means that I've lost my place in the main list manipulating the dialog.

bloatedcarpel 9y ago
Yes, I'm not too happy with Airtable's layout. Will be building this out as a stand-alone web app.

chriszelazo 9y ago

It makes me happy to see one of these populated by people motivated to do a project. There were endless student projects like this in college to find a ___.

richard___ 9y ago

I made something similar, didn't take off: https://pushboard.net/ https://pushboard.net/

jarofgreen 9y ago
Any thoughts as to why that you can share? Thanks :-)

eterm 9y ago

If anyone wants this in an easier to read format and without the double scrollbars (and with far fewer trackers loaded) it's also available directly at https://airtable.com/shrbKl9sxaFJqtjAN/tblzm60W80AwbPLJj?backgroundColor=gray&layout=card&viewControls=on https://airtable.com/shrbKl9sxaFJqtjAN/tblzm60W80AwbPLJj?bac...

muzani 9y ago

I think this is a great idea. As someone who has worked with (and been screwed over by) lots of people, my main advice to those using this is to just trust your instincts. Your instincts are part of your decades of experience knowing people. Most of the time, you'll know if someone is a shady type.

vesche 9y ago

It would be cool if you could search by language.

bloatedcarpel 9y ago
Coding our country language? You can filter the view by coding language.

xstartup 9y ago

As someone who started 5 companies with different cofounders in last 10 years. I've lost 50K with in first startup, 200K in second startup, 300K in third startup, 500K in 4th startup and 5th startup is ongoing. Co-founders ripped me out of this much money in all cases! All startups were making loss and I sold each one of them for 10-20x the of my personal loss.