i honestly don't get these services.<p>the market is too insignificant. Even if you get 100% market share, you'll end up with something like 1000-10000 users, most of which will be the business type looking for a code monkey.<p>can anyone actually think of a single founders team that found a cofounder like that and was successful?
Have any of you ever considered building something on your own, and trying to bring someone on-board with something in hand, instead of joining a co-founder dating site?<p>This is becoming a repeating theme here on HN and it seems like its another way for the people who aren't doing anything to feel like "entrepreneurs". It also seems like what takes place at a lot of conferences these days and especially on twitter.<p>If you're serious about building something, build it. If it's any good, even if incomplete, people will want to join you. It doesn't matter what it is. Really. The guys building the traffic/headline grabbing companies today are just farther along in the process. You can't get there without starting <i>somewhere</i>.<p>Are you a business guy looking for help building your idea? Outsource it. Pay someone to build it for you. Don't try to "convince" someone else to join your vision and build it for you.<p>This stuff has to be obvious to 95% of the members on this forum.<p>Sorry for the rant but this nonsense is getting old...
Okay, just tried the search function and it does not give me any results whatsoever... but I just flipped a few options.<p>oceanician, are you the founder/creator of this project? When did you start it? Could not find any information regarding that but it would be interesting to read.
Just a heads up, I'm not anything to do with this project but its from an event in the UK called Launch48, this idea was started on friday night and the idea is that over the weekend you build a MVP then work on it after the event.
Nice idea, but results I get from a quick search seem to be more suitable for a dating website.. "24, male, 5.9ft, dark hair, brown eyes.", "I'm a good guy".<p>Anyone actually found a co-founder through this website?
1) You should have a list of short 1-2 week projects that founders can work on together. Something founders can work on that is pretty generic and can put a price tag on.<p>2) You can charge for forming groups around these 1-2week project. Like 5 pounds or something.<p>So, teams can be formed around ideas and there wouldn't be so much focus on the other person. You can collect their personality types and track which group went on to form teams, this data will be useful for PR.<p>You can even charge for people to watch a project progress. This might be useful for early start-ups who want to find good people[essentially the same thing as finding a co-founder]. This should open the market up beyond the 1,000-10,000 that vaksel talked about.<p>Also, matchfounders.com might be infringing on match.com name, so that might need to be looked into.
This is way too superficial to give a meaningful result. What's needed is something like "eharmony for co-founders", "based on 29 Dimensions® of Compatibility for lasting and fulfilling businesses". There needs to be a way of matching the things that really turn people on without anyone giving up their secrets.<p>Just a few possibilities:<p><pre><code> - background (education, experience)
- specific industry experience
- technical skill set
- nontechnical skill set
- space (iphone, web app, desktop, social media, business, gaming)
- end user (consumer, SMB, enterprise)
- model (freemium, advertising, subscription, licenses)
- geography
- source of capital (bootstrap, incubator, angels, VC)
- goal (lifestyle business, exit in x years)
- special domain expertise
- pet peeves
- favorite things already done
- philosophical beliefs of how things should be done
</code></pre>
I could go on and on, but you kinda get the idea. If enough of these meaningful "dimensions" could be identified and codified, you could probably narrow down a search to a few very good possibilities fairly quickly. Business idea, anyone?
If you want to start a business, you should get out of your comfort zone. Finding a co-founder on an online platform is the opposite.<p>Get involved in your area's tech (or whatever your startup is about) scene and find a partner. That validates your idea, too. If you can't find a co-founder in real life, you may need to change your plan.
I have some experience in the field of co-founder finding. I recognize a couple of features we had speced out in the early days of FairSoftware, that we gave up on fairly quickly.<p>My advice if I was to do this today: think of the Angel List model: a highly curated e-mail of top-notch founders going to top-notch potential co-founders.
I like the service you are creating, but it's hard to take the results seriously... are there any better (read: outside of box) ways to determine how good the potential cofounder is?<p>Also, I'm playing devil's advocate here - how do you differentiate yourself from LinkedIn? It's something I have relied on in the past.
The site looks neat and I personally know a lot of single founders. But, when you bring in drop-down menus that talk about the number of months / days one can commit, doesn't it hamper the sanctity of the 'Co-founder' role and make it more like a freelancer website?
I gave the tool a try and at first the search page would just refresh itself.<p>It turns out it does that if there are no results. I tried a more general search and a few profiles were returned.
While not a necessity, it'd be nice to filter by geography. Also, you should have to throw out three ideas you have -- just so there's a way to differentiate people.
I registered last week to see if there's any value in such a service, but after doing a search I cannot find myself in their database. What's up with that?
Shouldn't the sector you want to work in be a very vital thing? My choice of ideas and my connection with a co founder will depend of my previous experience, interests and domain specific knowledge.