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I don't think I've ever received the kind of email the poster is talking about. Is there something wrong with me? Edit: I do get a reasonable number of cold(is

by Joeboy 14y ago

I don't think I've ever received the kind of email the poster is talking about. Is there something wrong with me? Edit: I do get a reasonable number of cold(ish) recruitment emails, but they mostly seem to be for real jobs. I'm not seriously worried about not receiving lame proposals, although I appreciate the sympathetic thoughts :-)

webjunkie 14y ago
Probably. Everyone gets them.
- MortenK 14y ago
  The people inhabiting your part of the world is not everyone.
  - webjunkie 14y ago
    Apparently the people inhabiting your part of the world don't have any sense of humor.
ayi 14y ago
Well, even the "create a wordpress blog for $100" kind of programmers get this kind of mails these days.
- mikle 14y ago
  Don't dishearten him. I think this is more location based. As someone in Tel Aviv I get a lot of these. Friends in less "Startupy" regions in Israel don't. To be more general - these "founders" know they have a bigger chance to find a technical-co-founder (I'm using that very liberally) is in a place with lots of programmers.
  - ayi 14y ago
    actually i was refering to entrepreneurs, not programmers. some of them think "important thing is founding the idea, any programmer can code it".
    - mikle 14y ago
      With that I can agree. Ideas are worth nothing. Execution is what matters. And luck. Mostly luck.
mkrecny 14y ago
There's nothing wrong with you. You probably don't have enough visibility on the web. Having said that, these emails are annoying and uninteresting 95% of the time.
mej10 14y ago
How many people know that you are a programmer? For a while, every social occasion I went to someone wanted to talk to me about building their startup idea. I eventually started hinting at things similar to this post. Some people get a kind of "shocked" look when you tell them the "I could just build this myself, what do I need you for?" line. Of course, I never meant any disrespect (though some did get quite defensive: "You can't just take my idea!"). Most people are simply unaware of what it takes to start a business, much less a tech startup.
ghettoCoder 14y ago
That just means you're not hanging where the cool kids are. Then again, judging by the quality of most things on github it is probably better. You may catch a GTD (Git Transmitted Disease).
redcan 14y ago
I too have never received this kind of email, though have been asked about it.
michaelochurch 14y ago
I get them, but not on a weekly basis. Possibly 3 per month, usually not phrased explicitly like that. But I'm not in the Valley and not that well-known. (If you're outside of California, it cuts the number you get in half, at least.) It's becoming a star economy where if everyone knows you're a 6, you're golden. But there are 7s and 8s and 9s out there who few people know about. In New York, you find a lot of them doing high-frequency trading in quant funds. Cold-calls don't mean much and you shouldn't take a lack of them to be indicative, especially if you're far away from that scene. Hot girls get a lot of mail on dating sites but it doesn't make their lives easier. Same principle.

by Joeboy 14y ago

webjunkie 14y ago

Probably. Everyone gets them.

MortenK 14y ago
The people inhabiting your part of the world is not everyone.
- webjunkie 14y ago
  Apparently the people inhabiting your part of the world don't have any sense of humor.

ayi 14y ago

Well, even the "create a wordpress blog for $100" kind of programmers get this kind of mails these days.

mikle 14y ago
Don't dishearten him. I think this is more location based. As someone in Tel Aviv I get a lot of these. Friends in less "Startupy" regions in Israel don't. To be more general - these "founders" know they have a bigger chance to find a technical-co-founder (I'm using that very liberally) is in a place with lots of programmers.
- ayi 14y ago
  actually i was refering to entrepreneurs, not programmers. some of them think "important thing is founding the idea, any programmer can code it".
  - mikle 14y ago
    With that I can agree. Ideas are worth nothing. Execution is what matters. And luck. Mostly luck.

mkrecny 14y ago

There's nothing wrong with you. You probably don't have enough visibility on the web. Having said that, these emails are annoying and uninteresting 95% of the time.

mej10 14y ago

How many people know that you are a programmer? For a while, every social occasion I went to someone wanted to talk to me about building their startup idea. I eventually started hinting at things similar to this post. Some people get a kind of "shocked" look when you tell them the "I could just build this myself, what do I need you for?" line. Of course, I never meant any disrespect (though some did get quite defensive: "You can't just take my idea!"). Most people are simply unaware of what it takes to start a business, much less a tech startup.

ghettoCoder 14y ago

That just means you're not hanging where the cool kids are. Then again, judging by the quality of most things on github it is probably better. You may catch a GTD (Git Transmitted Disease).

redcan 14y ago

I too have never received this kind of email, though have been asked about it.

michaelochurch 14y ago

I get them, but not on a weekly basis. Possibly 3 per month, usually not phrased explicitly like that. But I'm not in the Valley and not that well-known. (If you're outside of California, it cuts the number you get in half, at least.) It's becoming a star economy where if everyone knows you're a 6, you're golden. But there are 7s and 8s and 9s out there who few people know about. In New York, you find a lot of them doing high-frequency trading in quant funds. Cold-calls don't mean much and you shouldn't take a lack of them to be indicative, especially if you're far away from that scene. Hot girls get a lot of mail on dating sites but it doesn't make their lives easier. Same principle.