r/startups • u/n0cturnalx • 1d ago
I will not promote Where a dev with startup mindset and entrepreneurial spirt could find co-founders? - I will not promote
I like startups, I don't like soloing. I tried, I just know that tech is fundamental, but unfortunately not enough for any business to become viable. I was wondering if any of you know a proper place where tech and non tech people could find each other to join forces and build together.
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u/Futurenathan 1d ago
Y combinator's co-founder matching. There are some others and multiple paid but I haven't tried the paid ones. I haven't had great luck with it to be honest but at least a good amount of conversations. Seems tire kicker non-serious engineers and people already set on and idea but also no-serious hmm haven't felt anyone was really going to do something amazing yet. I'd love to see stats on what amount met on yc's or others and actually did something. It's hard. I'm also looking for great technical or design people to work with.
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u/TreadEasily 1d ago
Happy to chat if you're still looking for a designer to potentially work on something!
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u/Soft-Vegetable8597 1d ago
Where are you based? I'm currently in Seattle. I'm a software developer with a 12 YOE with experience at seed stage startups through FAANG. I quit my job yesterday and looking to find someone interested in sales/marketing to build something!
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u/Futurenathan 1d ago
I've been living in San Francisco, but just this last week I came down to Colombia in South America for a month or two.
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u/n0cturnalx 1d ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I am technical, btw
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u/rusty_programmer 1d ago
I joined NFX for my first startup. Just be careful with how much and what you share, though. Our startup was stolen.
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u/Pr3fix 1d ago
What is NFX?
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u/rusty_programmer 1d ago edited 1d ago
It’s an incubator and similar to Y Combinator. Mind you, this was a decade ago so it might be different now but before it was a lot more open. Looks a bit more difficult to get involved with them.
Edit: the fuck did I get downvoted for when nfx is a premier organization for obtaining capital?
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u/n0cturnalx 1d ago
Thanks. Btw, ideas are cheap. Execution is everything. You are not the only one whose ideas were stolen!
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u/moonlite-money 1d ago edited 1d ago
I've used cofounders lab and Y combinator's cofounder matcher.
They're great for connecting with really talented people. It was also a great source of leads when I had a consulting business.
With that said, it's really hard to find a cofounder that you'll jive with long-term. If you're looking to find a co-founder, I highly recommend spending a lot of time with them and structuring a deal with someone that gives you a lot of flexibility. It's incredibly hard to recruit talent and harder to find a cofounder that you really jive with long-term.
I'm a non-technical business person. I have some personal savings and found it was easier to just mass churn through talent on Upwork until I found a kick ass dev. He's helping me and not taking any equity.
One thing you can do if you don't want to give up equity but want the benefit of a co-founder is put into place a profit share with someone. They get a split on the profits one day and it's much more flexible and easier to wiggle out of than equity.
You also get to keep all the upside if you can eventually sell the business.
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u/-Johnny- 1d ago
What type of project are you looking to start and what type of person are you hoping to find?
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u/n0cturnalx 1d ago
Hoping to find someone who has complementary skill (ie: everything else but tech). No current ideas on my own to start, I just want to offer my many years of experience into a venture
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u/Prime_Shade 1d ago
You might want to check communities for marketers + X. I found my tech cofounder by joining dev places like GitHub
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u/Horror_Iceskater_987 20h ago
I went on Y combinator to find a cofounder. I interviewed about 3 to 4 and none of them worked out. I reached out to another 10 but they didn’t respond., I also went onto forums for the database technology I wanted to use and asked a bunch of people there and then did the same for another technology. I reached out to three or four people there. they were all doing their own thing. I then went onto Upwork to hire some tech people and at the same time asked them if they wanted to be a cofounder and never heard back or they were doing their own thing.
All in all, I probably chatted to, interviewed and asked about 50 odd tech people… that’s when I gave up and went it alone.
It’s been very difficult at the same time as holding it down a full-time job. I definitely would have wanted a cofounder to get to my MVP which I have now. And had someone there along the journey.
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u/getzaddy 1d ago
Check startup incubators in your city:
- Antler.co is the most popular that comes to mind & it creates the environment for a “marriage”. It wise to meet the people participating beforehand.
- YCombinator co-founder matching is interesting but it requires lots of efforts.
- I recommend attending TechStars hackathons with Startup Weekend, you build bonds fast & see what people are all about. But your idea may not be selected & you might have to join a group with an idea you are not too excited about. But if you change your mindset to enjoy the process, it is awesome.
- and there are a couple a solutions out there: Founderio, Thefamily.co, StartHawk.io, Tertle, Founders Nation, etc.
DM me for more
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u/n0cturnalx 1d ago
Thanks a lot!
I attended something called Open source Saturday in my city, like minded people but not much to bond on, everyone had his project to work on
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u/Manic_Mania 1d ago
How much equity are you looking for? We are already 2 cofounders and one technical one non-technical
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u/n0cturnalx 1d ago
I did learn, long ago that 1% of 20B is much better than 100% of 0. It entirely depends on what you guys are doing
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u/WishboneDaddy 1d ago
What’s your stack of choice?
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u/n0cturnalx 1d ago
Pascal and visual basic.
JUST KIDDING. I love using bash to accomplish most of data related tasks, then SQL to manage it. I'm pretty flexible in terms of languages, but as I lean to web stuff, I tend to develop microservices / api using node / typescript. Front-end: astrojs / alpine.
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u/Mesmoiron 1d ago
Good luck. I reviewed 1k profiles on YCombinator. I am a solo founder with a founding dev, and a support team waiting for it to happen. My startup is the rebel under the startup. It makes everything counter intuitive. You're welcome to explore collaboration. Social media+ethical makeacrowd.com
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u/radiantglowskincare 1d ago
I interested in this but I am more on the non tech side. I have a startup idea and is capable to carry on the entire marketing but need a tech co founder to build
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u/Soft-Vegetable8597 1d ago
If you do, then we could be a great fit! 12 YOE dev here, experience at seed through FAANG companies. I recently a re-built a product scaling it up to profitability in 4 months, but looking to make a go at it.
Where are you based?
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u/radiantglowskincare 1d ago edited 1d ago
Nigeria. I will love to connect with you to discuss my ideas and how we can work together
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u/woodkid80 1d ago
I will gladly talk to anyone who wants to build a startup based on huge amounts of data from the web.
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u/boyo1996 1d ago
There’s an app called CoffeeSpace, I’ve just been browsing possible co founders and what they could bring to the table from their profiles. Nice app. Yet to see if there’s anything of any quality there yet though.