Question for HN: I cannot imagine starting a company with a stranger. There are so many intense moments, points of extreme trust, and ways for things to go wrong, so much passion, and so much blending of self and company, that I wouldn't ever feel comfortable embarking with someone that I didn't know incredibly well as a cofounder.<p>Are there reasons to believe that starting with a stranger as a cofounder will generally work out well if you can pick the stranger carefully?
Interesting idea with likely unwanted consequences. Browsed it for 10 minutes and it seems the vast majority of posts are "looking for technical co-founder to program my idea."
Does anyone know of something similar for matching technical people with non profits? I’m suddenly filled with free time and want to find a non profit with short term technical needs. Ideally looking to help lgbtq organizations if that helps
Well I think this is great, and some of the posts are from startups that actually have a MVP already built, with founders who have decent credentials. There's also some fun moonshots in there like this one: <a href="https://founderslist.com/cofounders/view/80" rel="nofollow">https://founderslist.com/cofounders/view/80</a><p>If you're in SF or already part of the startup/VC community this website probably isn't for you. But for thousands of entrepreneurial minded, experienced people who just need a partner, this is a great resource. (Of course caveats apply! But don't they always? If you're joining/founding a startup nobody will do your due diligence but you!)<p>Thanks for posting, and I will be going through some of the posts with great interest.
This feels more PlentyofFish rather than Tinder.<p>Is there more of a tinder version? Just dump two people into a shared video chat and pair programming session to just start building something with someone?<p>Not code-roulette, but paired like founders list here. Just less reading and more connecting.<p>Or a shared repl, Jupyter notebook, or Google doc/sheet/slides for collab.<p>Anything closer to something like that exist?
If you are fortunate enough to have some capital in this crisis, what better opportunity will you have in your life to start a company? A significant amount of incumbents (a.k.a. your competition) will be wiped out or have reduced market share when the economy starts back up, and there will be unique challenges and opportunities in the post-covid world.
Something similar [1] (but rather for side projects) was posted here on HN a few days ago.<p>[1] <a href="https://redsand.io/" rel="nofollow">https://redsand.io/</a>
Founder seeking co-founder to found founding funding finder for other Founders. Have found several other promising Founders but still have not found what I'm trying to find.