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> It is surprising you are having a tough time finding a tech co-founder ... you have traction, a site that seems fairly developed, and a decent idea. It's lik

> It is surprising you are having a tough time finding a tech co-founder ... you have traction, a site that seems fairly developed, and a decent idea. It's like a handsome, successful, wealthy, socially well-adjusted man who has trouble finding a new girlfriend because he only goes out with his current one. Any developer's first reaction to a new project is to wish they could raze it and start over from scratch, imagine how much more intense that is when the initial development was done by an MBA.

Major_Grooves 13y ago
Ummm I didn't develop it with my own fair fingers. Can we stop with the MBA-insults please? The code is good. Enough people have looked at it for me to know that. Unless we change language it is something to be built upon, not razed.
- vinceguidry 13y ago
  That should be the least of your concerns. Finding a co-founder is hard enough without expecting him to know Java. Pick based on other criteria, then let him rebuild it as he sees fit. There's a good chance that even a Java guy would end up refactoring it beyond recognition. It's exactly what I would do.
  - Major_Grooves 13y ago
    OK, I think this will have to be the subject of another blog post as I have never seen tech guys to polarised between "pick based on other criteria" versus "you've built something solid in Java, you'd be mad to change". It's almost a 50:50 split, and not much middle-ground.
  - makerops 13y ago
    I do think though, a lot of this will depend on the code, and how complicated his site actually is (doesn't seem too crazy complicated though). I think this is more of a developer market fit/social question.
- ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
  I'm not saying it's not good, my point is that a "technical co-founder" will want to redo it _regardless_ of whether it's good or not. (Also not trying to disparage MBAs, it's just that's how technical co-founders will think of them.)

Major_Grooves 13y ago

Ummm I didn't develop it with my own fair fingers. Can we stop with the MBA-insults please? The code is good. Enough people have looked at it for me to know that. Unless we change language it is something to be built upon, not razed.

vinceguidry 13y ago
That should be the least of your concerns. Finding a co-founder is hard enough without expecting him to know Java. Pick based on other criteria, then let him rebuild it as he sees fit. There's a good chance that even a Java guy would end up refactoring it beyond recognition. It's exactly what I would do.
- Major_Grooves 13y ago
  OK, I think this will have to be the subject of another blog post as I have never seen tech guys to polarised between "pick based on other criteria" versus "you've built something solid in Java, you'd be mad to change". It's almost a 50:50 split, and not much middle-ground.
- makerops 13y ago
  I do think though, a lot of this will depend on the code, and how complicated his site actually is (doesn't seem too crazy complicated though). I think this is more of a developer market fit/social question.
ArbitraryLimits 13y ago
I'm not saying it's not good, my point is that a "technical co-founder" will want to redo it _regardless_ of whether it's good or not. (Also not trying to disparage MBAs, it's just that's how technical co-founders will think of them.)