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Ask HN: What is the best way to find a technical co-founder?
I've been working on a startup solo for the last 8 months starting full-time and lately nights and weekends. I'm looking for a technical co-founder to come on board who would be able to commit a good portion of their nights and weekends as well. The project is music related, Ruby on Rails + significant Javascript.
I've shown the idea at work and to a couple able friends, all of whom like it and even use it as it is now, but none of whom have the time to help so that option is not very likely.
I tried weekendhacker.net when it came out but didn't get any bites despite offering to trade time with other projects.
I'd be willing to hire someone but I certainly can't afford the amount of commitment and quality I'd need at this point. Unless I can get a quality RoR hacker to work at $15/hour (can I?).
How have you had luck finding a co-founder? Is there a good service or site to do so that has a large userbase and is proven?
- Mz 15y agoIf you get no replies, you might want to elaborate on what you are bringing to the table in terms of skills. Also, e-lance and similar sites come to mind but I am not qualified to say if they would meet your needs. I have done some freelance work online but only as a writer, not a coder, and I have never hired anyone. Best of luck.
- philjones88 15y agoOpposite problem here. Can't find a business co-founder, I'm a guy that likes building stuff but has no ideas. Part of my problem as well is that I use different tools to rails, mainly ASP.NET MVC etc. You mention "The project is music related, Ruby on Rails + significant Javascript" but if you already have started coding why are you looking to hire a developer? I've read alot around the subject of business focused co-founders seeking technical co-founders (mainly so I could know where to "be found") and are you offering just a salary or low salary + shares?
- traxtech 15y agoYep, it's stange to see someone seeking a technical co-founder and trying to impose a framework. Let the future CTO do its job, grant him confidence!
- JVIDEL 15y agoI don't want to sound like an ass but from experience I can say that's because the founder read somewhere that X framework is "kwel" and the hottest thing right now so they gotta have it. But the end-user doesn't cares, case in point: Grooveshark its made with Flash.
- lix2333 15y agoCan't find a business co-founder? That's pretty unusual it seems. What kind of work do you expect your business co-founder to do?
- philjones88 15y agoIt's more the following: 1. Location. In Bristol, United Kingdom. Not London. 2. The .NET scene isn't very startup focused. Of all the .NET usergroup events I've attended (in Bristol) over the years I've only seen 1 person talking about their startup needing developers. 3. I scare other .NET (501) people with all these new hipster technologies like NoSQL (RavenDB, Redis) or cloud servers.
- thiagodotfm 15y agoI can work with ROR for $15/hour(I live in a shitty country) and I'm interested in it(would rather get some equity and create a business with you :) ). Add me on skype: art_is_t or e-mail me: t at art-is-t.me Thanks.
- hkarthik 15y agoI've got the opposite problem as a tech guy that likes to build stuff but I don't have the business/marketing skills needed. I've been pitched a few times, but I'm very picky about the opportunities I'd go after. I've listed myself on the HN contractor spreadsheet and on BuildItWith.me. One thing you should do is put your email or contact info your HN profile. That will help a lot.
- willpower101 15y agoWow, two hackers in one thread looking for a business guy? I have 40+ business ideas - some well fleshed out and others just a couple lines from a notebook - but I have no one to execute them. Between school and work I haven't had time to translate my basic knowledge of data structures into something like rails and python. And to be honest, I don't enjoy building as much as I should to be able to code them on my own. However I do have a BS with a focus on business and basically a minor in EECS. I pretty much figured I was SOL at finding a tech co-founder.
- orky56 15y agoIf you're still interested, feel free to contact me via my email in my profile.
- julanrouge 15y agoThere is a post on HN about this today: I can has cofounder: a tale of cheezburgers and k-pop stars. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3886800 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3886800