Ok with all the cofounder finding going on. I thought i'd start a useful thread.<p>There are 3 rules<p>1. Put in your location in the comments
2. If there is someone in your local area looking for a cofounder meet them this weekend.
3. Not too much spiel - keep it fairly enigmatic<p>Three rules. Go forth and conquer..
I know pg says you need co-founders, but I have a feeling that partnering with a <i>stranger</i> will hurt your chances of success more than it will help. I remember Jessica saying a major cause of death in startups was founder disputes (link: <a href="http://www.grid7.com/archives/189_podcast-28-jessica-livingston-of-y-combinator.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.grid7.com/archives/189_podcast-28-jessica-livings...</a>, around the 14 minute mark).
Okay, I'll start. I'm 24 and living in San Francisco. I'm a programmer but would like to find another technical person to work with. I have three ideas for a startup:<p>1. An easy software solution for multivariate testing web pages.
2. A bid management tool for PPC. I'm thinking something like www.efrontier.com, but for small and medium sized businesses.
3. Totally different from the top two, but I'm interested in a personalized (or well-balanced) news site. Findory would be the best comparison. Of course, it failed, so I am a little bit hesitant and I think relying on advertising as your only revenue source is very risky. If you're interested in the latest technology that could be used in this area, check out <a href="http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~hinton/absps/sh.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~hinton/absps/sh.pdf</a><p>My email address is in my profile.
I'm a technology entrepreneur in Provo, UT. I'm starting a "master-mind" group here with other entrepreneurs, business owners, or executives of start-up's. I want to keep it to under 10 people for now. If you're not familiar with the master-mind concept, it's where entrepreneurs sit down all (in our case Saturday once a month) day and brainstorm on eachothers' business ideas.<p>John D. Rockefeller attributed most of his success to his frequent master-mind meetings with other business owners. In fact, 90% of what we now know as Rockefeller's achievements came after Thomas Edison joined his master-mind group.<p>If you are interested, send me an email and include your phone number: adammichaelc@gmail.com
I live in southeast New Hampshire, about an hour and a half drive from Boston. I'm interested in meeting people who are involved with the intersection of political activism and technology. I'm working on a web application to help grassroots groups run letter writing campaigns and various other activities. I enjoy working with Ruby and Rails and also run the NHRuby.org user group. Drop me a line at sgarman at zenlinux dot com.
1. México. Will move as needed to get text twext.<p>2. Este fin de semana en San Miguel de Allende. La semana que entra en México, D.F. para <a href="http://consol.org.mx" rel="nofollow">http://consol.org.mx</a>, buscando programador para <a href="http://twext.com/gig" rel="nofollow">http://twext.com/gig</a><p>3. <a href="http://twext.com/overview" rel="nofollow">http://twext.com/overview</a> wants great hacker to add value to unicode texts by formatting them twext. Why? So we can more easily learn natural language like Español, Français, Português, etc etc. So we can communicate better. Twext text works on computers and prints on paper. Today, a billion people are learning English.<p>a.) <a href="http://olpcnews.com/content/localization/learning_language.html" rel="nofollow">http://olpcnews.com/content/localization/learning_language.h...</a><p>b.) <a href="http://more.read.fm/more_language#why.3F" rel="nofollow">http://more.read.fm/more_language#why.3F</a><p>4. Spiel: Lisp?
Hailing from State College, PA (home of Penn State) here. Working on an app that aims to be a one-stop shop for open source learning: a cross between Wikipedia (for students) and SourceForge (for teachers); with courses, lectures,
classes, and tutorials that anyone can create, edit and use.<p>Unfortunately, I was an absolute noob when I came up with the idea ~8 months ago, so I am learning as I go along (ironically, what I really need is something like ezLearnz to help accelerate my learning). As such, progress is slower than I expected; I hoped to have launched ezLearnz by February, but I still have some development to do. Hopefully, the launch will occur within a week, give or take a few days, at <a href="http://beta.ezlearnz.com" rel="nofollow">http://beta.ezlearnz.com</a> . I'm developing in RoR, so a RoR developer would be ideal.<p>My contact details are in my (public) profile.
Santa Monica, CA.<p>If you are creating or have a nice idea for a client based on the webdav protocal (web-based or desktop), we would be interested to work with you. We have the server implemented already which works with existing clients and developing other clients
Looking for a Lead Developer for the coolest new music site. We're 2 fun, music obsessed girls looking for the right engineer to make our great idea a reality. We're located in San Francisco. email rose at imthemusic dot com
Three liberating real-world app ideas on the table. Atlanta, 30.Two successful ventures under belt. Looking for young-ish, VP of Engineering to partner / co-found / code third.
I live on the Maine/NH/Mass border area about an hour north of Boston. A Ruby developer. Lots of ideas, in various prototype stages. Looking to take some time off of freelancing and focus on one of them with 1-2 other people for a few months.<p>Not looking for an immediate cofounder as much as just other local entrepreneurs with moxy to meetup with from time to time, exchange ideas and skills. If things click, we can go from there...
24 living in Atlanta. Working on an accounting suite for small businesses called Aloe. Very very raw pre-alpha quality build up at <a href="http://aloe-acct.com" rel="nofollow">http://aloe-acct.com</a><p>Looking for someone who can kick ass and take names. A Rails developer would be great, but I'm also looking for someone who has business chops and a good understanding of accounting principles.
Switzerland, Luxembourg or inbetween ;)<p>25, university degree, looking for a cofounder with experience in natural language processing and clustering of documents (like <a href="http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~hinton/absps/sh.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~hinton/absps/sh.pdf</a> someone else posted below). Preferentially Java. Idea is blog search related.
Hi all,<p>Ok, I'm not looking for a cofounder, but rather a lead developer to help commercialize our software. We are a funded startup company in Salt Lake City, UT. If interested, you can see our Craigslist ad at: <a href="http://saltlakecity.craigslist.org/sof/576377282.html" rel="nofollow">http://saltlakecity.craigslist.org/sof/576377282.html</a>
I'm in Palo Alto, California. I'm 24, I've been running my company for 10 years, and I'm looking for someone who knows how to sell the products I already have to people. Or, if you'd like to help code new ones, that would be cool, too.
I'm not exactly looking for a co-founder but I'm looking to meet smart people with interesting ideas. I like working on interesting projects whether it's my idea or someone else's. I'm located in Chicago (for now).
While I'm not sure how well HN works as a co-founder-finder (confoundit), I'll test the waters. :P<p>19 living in Santa Clarita, CA (just north of Los Angeles). Contact info, as well as stuff I've done is available in my profile.
1 man band in Tampa. Wouldn't mind teaming with a LAMP / AJAX rock star. Here's what I'm doing...<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=114568" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=114568</a>
It looks like a lot of people are simply interested in meeting other hackers in their area, whether looking for co-founders or not. Maybe that should be part of the site at this point.
I need a person into writing copy. If you like to write articles, sales text, web page copy please let me know. Click on "gscott" to see what I am doing and where it is going.
I'm in the Los Angeles area. Mainly looking for an interface graphics designer, but anyone else could be interesting. Doing work in Seaside. phil at dizm.com
I am not exactly looking for a co-founder right now but I'd definitely like to make friends with ppl with startuppy interests.<p>Location: Seattle, WA.<p>(Proximity not a requirement)
i'm a programmer fresh out of college in bergen, norway (planning to relocate to boston or bay area). i'm 34, and i'm building a neural network to do speech to text. i need another programmer, preferrably someone with more experience than myself, especially with browsers and low-level signal processing.