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Amichail, I know exactly what you mean. Some people work better on their own. But even if you're looking for a founder, there are some places where you're out o
by omarish 20y ago
Amichail, I know exactly what you mean. Some people work better on their own. But even if you're looking for a founder, there are some places where you're out of luck. I go to the University of Virginia, and to tell you the truth, it's nearly impossible to find good hackers to work on startups with (even though 50% of Reddit went here). And without that, there's no hope getting into something as prestigious as the YCombinator.
I propose we make a simple site that allows hackers find one another, locally. A single hacker isn't going to make a Meetup group to find other hackers; that takes too much work. It should be more like Craigslist, but for this startup community. Sorted by city, people can exchange email addresses, screen names, and most importantly, ideas.
All it takes is two founders, and you never know what kind of matches people will find.
Granted, they should know that they can work together before taking on a huge project, but I think that something of this sort will really help people discover one another and get their startups going.
I'm not suggesting we re-invent Craigslist, but there are enough people here to merit something like this. Ruby on Rails, anybody?
- sharpshoot 20y agohey omarish - i'm in on this. Shoot me an email. Sumon [at] zintilla [dot] com
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- mattculbreth 20y agoActually, why not do it here? I bet that sort of functionality could be integrated somehow into this site, and from Paul's first post to the group on the reasons for the site I think it would fit in well. Then again you won't be able to use Ruby...
- sharpshoot 20y agoyeah if we fill out the profiles - and add a location and status field. It'll work pretty well at first - as you can browse people's profiles to see if they are also looking for a co-founder etc. Things can then be taken up on email
- omarish 20y agoVery good idea. We can assume most people here are in the startup community. So perhaps there should be a search by location field on a page here so that people can find each other.
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- danw 20y agohttp://www.buildv1.com/ may be what your looking for.
- sharpshoot 20y agobuildv1 is quite rigid - and it doesn't have the activity of this site. I think the principle of buildv1 is great and essential - i'm not sure if the execution is quite correct.
- M_Arrington 18y agoThis is why we can't have nice things.
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- jamiequint 20y agoif you guys are interested I could host this (the site and SVN) and maybe hack away at it a little bit (If you're doing it in Rails) I totally feel you on this one, its shouldn't be as hard as it is to find passionate people who are technical AND entrepreneurial.
- omarish 20y agoI'm with you. Paul - what do you think about this? Hosting that sort of thing here would foster the entire YC community, but doing it over there means a more select user base of people who are specifically looking for partners to work with.
- pg 20y agoWe'll gradually be adding more features of this type.
- M_Arrington 18y agoThis is why we can't have nice things.
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- jamiequint 20y agoforgot the email.... its jamiequint **AT** gmail
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- danw 20y agoIdealy we should have profiles with location, url, short description and email address fields. If that doesnt happen then this cofounders meetup board would be good. Count me in. You can find me via danshub.com or contact me at dan@danshub.com.
- M_Arrington 18y agoThis is why we can't have nice things.
- drop19 20y agoall, I decided to give this a try. Please let me know what you think: http://www.founderfinder.com/
- Arrington 18y agoThis is why we can't have nice things.