Straight to the point.
I'm a single founder starting a small company that has the potential to become huge. I emailed YC regarding co-founders and they suggested HN, so here I am.
I only qualifications needed are to be well versed in social network advertising and a massive amount of free time. That's it.
I can't discuss the company details here but, obviously, it has something to do with social networks and advertising.
Let's go.
No offense, but this reads like a posting on a game development forum looking for an engine programmer to complete his awesome vision.<p>Edit: cperciva made a good point. If you're idea is so fragile that merely finding out about it would give your competitors the upper hand, then they're probably going to have the upper hand no matter what you do. Is your startup very early stage, and explaining your idea would give them months of dev time?
<i>I emailed YC regarding co-founders and they suggested HN, so here I am [...] I can't discuss the company details here [...]</i><p>If your idea is so fragile that discussing what it is will destroy it, you really don't have anything useful.
Okay HN boys, I think we can figure this out. Here's what we have so far:<p>- Its about monetizing twitter<p>- Needs someone familiar with social network ad rates and companies that buy social advertising so that he can price his product properly<p>- "Ridiculously simple" that it can be summed in 1 sentence<p>- <i>Not adwords for twitter</i> apparently, claims he's never seen this done before.<p>The fact that he needs someone familiar with selling to companies means the buyers will be businesses. The fact that its monetizing twitter means his publishers will be twitter users. So he'll be facilitating advertising from businesses to tweets on twitter users. I suppose publishers can join his network, select categories of products/services they're ok with tweeting about, and then get paid for tweeting out sponsored messages.<p>Anyone else have hypotheses?
The requirements are rather vague. Who nowadays does not consider himself "well versed in social networks" and "not too busy to make money"?<p>Seriously, you've got to narrow the pool a bit. Telling us your startup plan will do X will not mean some random entrepreneur will suddenly work out an entire functional plan for X'ing.<p>"Something to do with social networks" is about akin and officially evil as a freelance project offering $50 to clone Facebook.
Not to sound rude, although I will admit that your tone annoys me. Why would someone need <i>you</i> for this? If they already have the key assets needed to make this project successful, what value would you add? The ability to annoy HN?
I've got it. I'll know on the 13th if i've made it through to the YC interview. If I do, i'll just ask for their advice re cofounders. If not, i'll throw my plan wide open here and see. Thanks.