Recently, someone on HN started a HN Contractors spreadsheet so that it becomes easy to find contractors who are here at HN.<p>I was wondering if anyone would be interested in developing a website around that idea. Only instead of contractors, it would be for findingco-founders.<p>I was thinking that the site would have two sections.<p>In one, it would allow people wiling to work for equity to post their skills/resumes.<p>In the other, it would allow people to post their ideas (say a web app they want to build), and put up requests for developers, designers, etc, who have the necessary skills. And also indicate how much equity s/he would be willing to share with each.<p>The reason I think this will be good idea is because I am a designer and a very good one at that (my portfolio is at www.alexwyser.com), but I dont have any coding skills. My head is full of all kinds of interesting ideas, but I cannot execute them. If a talented developer(s) would be willing to work with me on my ideas, I would gladly give him/her 80% or more of the equity.<p>I understand that it is best to find co-founders from among you real-life friends/acquaintances, but some people simply don't know anyone with the right skills.<p>I am sure that a lot of people here have ideas they can't execute because they lack the skill and don't know anyone with those skills, and would find this site very helpful.<p>So what do you guys think? Would it work? Is it worth trying out? Would anyone like to work with me to build this website?
A few more sites that help to find co-founders:<p><a href="http://founderdating.com/" rel="nofollow">http://founderdating.com/</a>
<a href="http://startupsquare.com/" rel="nofollow">http://startupsquare.com/</a><p>Why don't you start a meetup group like this one?
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/Co-Founders-Wanted-Meetup/" rel="nofollow">http://www.meetup.com/Co-Founders-Wanted-Meetup/</a>
Briefings from the meetings:
<a href="http://aurametrix.blogspot.com/2010/03/bay-area-startups-looking-for.html" rel="nofollow">http://aurametrix.blogspot.com/2010/03/bay-area-startups-loo...</a>
<a href="http://aurametrix.blogspot.com/2009/11/bay-area-startups-looking-for.html" rel="nofollow">http://aurametrix.blogspot.com/2009/11/bay-area-startups-loo...</a><p>If you want to build something similar to what already exists, you will be able to do it by yourself.
If you want to create something like e-Harmony - matching people based on demographic, educational, job history, psychological and behavioral characteristics and their encounters, feeding gigabytes of data into sophisticated models on a daily basis, think about measurable expectations before proceeding.
You might want to check out: <a href="http://builditwith.me/" rel="nofollow">http://builditwith.me/</a><p>I posted an idea on there a while back and got several responses from interested developers and designers.<p>In the end I decided that I wanted to work with someone who I could meet face to face and who I had a previous relationship with. I think it's hard to set this type of thing up through a website.
People are loathe to register the ideas they're working on, for obvious reasons. Here are a couple sites that I know of:<p><a href="http://findmycofounder.com" rel="nofollow">http://findmycofounder.com</a><p><a href="http://programmermeetdesigner.com" rel="nofollow">http://programmermeetdesigner.com</a>