Please state the location and include REMOTE if you are open to building a company remotely. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.
Please only post if you personally are the founder (or one of the co-founders) of the startup. No recruiting firms, venture builders, or job boards. Only one post per company (how many co-founders can one look for anyway). Please explain on a high level what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to these posts telling people why their idea won't work. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in committing yourself to a co-founder role. No "CTO for hire" companies!
Ruby on Rails | React | HTML5 Canvas (for the poker table) | Postgres | AWS (Lambda, Kinesis, Athena, SQS, etc.)
Clubs Poker (https://clubspoker.com) makes it dead simple to play poker with your friends for fun. We’re going to make poker look more like a social game (think Fortnite) and less like a casino. Sound interesting?
Clubs is currently hosting around 1,000 poker games/month and avg growth is 100% month over month. We recently closed a round of funding led by Village Global, along with other angel investors and professional poker players.
About me: Former poker player, PM for 10 years, now CEO at Clubs Poker.
To apply, email me at taylor [at] clubspoker.com, mentioning this post in HN & a description of why you think you'd be a good fit. You should have noteworthy full-stack experience under your belt already.
https://angel.co/company/clubs-poker/jobs/1457533-cto-lead-e...
Please see our introduction video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faxNDhOjlh4
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Piano Gym is a free website where anyone can use a real Piano to learn music theory and performance in the context of actual sheet music. It uses a myriad of flash card tools to teach complex topics, and all of it is managed for you by Piano Gym using spaced repetition. You just have to show up and do your reps!
Piano Gym provides courses and lessons using Piano methods books like The Mayron Cole Piano Method. However educators and learners can also create their own content to build material they may want to focus on instead. We love supporting teachers and learners together!
The overall goal is to support learners in completing their daily reps through deliberate practice while having fun!
Come and do your reps at Piano Gym! We’ll be spotting you!
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I am looking for team members who believe in the dream product. This will not be paid, but eventually may be revenue generating. We have a patreon here right now: https://patreon.com/PianoGym
I need someone who can execute technically.
I need someone who can execute in a business management capacity.
Right now my bandwidth is limited and Piano Gym is finally coming out of stealth. I need someone who can help deliver milestones and help create a community of learners who want to grow with our platform.
Please contact us through our social media or at `DoYourReps@PianoGym.com`
I am looking for a co-founder who would ideally be the CEO, who thinks long-term and wants to build solutions to empower people. I am happy to have a chat or call. Timezone IST at the moment. I have a couple ideas (1) but I am open to figuring out other ideas too.
I am interested in Marketplaces, (omni-channel/e) Commerce, Data exploration, No-code, Healthcare. But I place impact over profit and believe that profit comes to great products. Having mental issues, I have been focusing on my work routine since last year. I am open about my mental struggles; am aware of some things that work, but it is still a learning process.
1. Data exploration: https://dwata.com
Email: My full name (written above, no space in between) at that email domain of Google.
I'm working on better QR codes. I think current QR codes suck because first of all you don't know what they go to by looking at them, so I embed a link preview into my QR codes' patterns.
I'm also working on creating and embedding apps so instead of just scanning a QR code and getting a PDF of the menu, you could order food, chat with wait staff, join a queue, etc. etc.
I need a more sales/marketing oriented cofounder, it isn't my strong suit.
Email -> rob at sw.ink
We have worked on this project for 5 years, We have developed 3D VR models as well as 3d printed several working prototypes.
We have this product ready- we just need help with Marketing and Sales. Any experience with crowdfunding or manufacturing would also be key.
Also, If anyone is interest in playtesting, please let me know.
email: Puzzle AT free DOT TV
The cooperative will have a strong free software focus, equal salaries, and ownership=membership.
The aim is to start with freelancing to reduce risk, and then develop more product-like projects. Let's see if we can make the social side work.
Email in my profile.
Write.as is a simple, privacy-friendly blogging platform made for writers. It's focused on doing just one thing well: helping you get your words published on the open web. It's powered by open source software called WriteFreely, and is part of a suite of interconnected publishing tools that I'm building: Snap.as for photos, Submit.as for submission management, Draft.as for collaboration, and so on.
As a company, we're entirely bootstrapped and founder-owned, and after 6 years, very modestly profitable. But in many ways, we're still very early. Our customers are writers, bloggers, teachers, and authors, plus some companies, publications, and public libraries. There's no "exit" or fundraising potential in sight; just a small, sustainable company I hope to continue running for many decades.
I put most of my focus on building product and supporting current customers, to the detriment of us growing quicker. But there is plenty of room to grow, and I'm looking for someone who can join in a cofounder-like capacity to help move the needle in a way that matches our calm pace and principles [0]. If you're interested, I'd love to hear from you: matt {at} write.as
I'm a solo founder and am interviewing next week in the final stage of a somewhat well-known tech incubator.
The open source framework / SaaS I'm developing is called Fastmap https://fastmap.io. The one-liner is: "Fastmap offloads and parallelizes arbitrary Python functions on the cloud" but I'm also considering the more colloquial, "Fastmap is a server in your pocket". My short term strategy is to market to data scientists. My long term strategy is to offer a smarter way to do backend infrastructure.
As far as skill set, I am looking for someone with a deep level of expertise in distributed systems and/or data engineering. I would also be open to a non-technical co-founder with business experience in SaaS.
Building a co-founder relationship at a late stage is inherently tricky. For what it's worth, I believe that relationships work best when they are equitable and that 95% of the work of Fastmap is in the future.
Interested? Email me! Let's see if we can find a way to test whether we click: scott@fastmap.io
The idea: Improve the way people learn by building an open learning map, leveraging crowdsourcing and graph database technologies. Think Google Maps x Wikipedia for learning. It would allow users to navigate knowledge in a seamless and rewarding way, by tailoring the best online content based on what you know, how you learn best, what you want to learn.
State of the project: I’ve been setting up the tech and working on an MVP, which will soon be ready to launch. The next step is to grow the userbase, build a community around the platform and apply for funding. That’s where you come in. Desired profile: Looking for a driven and ambitious CEO with strong communication skills. Aside from the traditional responsibilities of a CEO, this project also requires a fair share of online community management and brand building.
About me: I have a background in applied mathematics, software engineering and graph theory, and I’ve worked in Berlin startups for the past 4 years.
Feel free to share with people you think would fit this profile :). Here’s my email: olivier.ramier@gmail.com
Mitta provides methods to crawl, index, tag, filter and search various information over time.
My thoughts are that I will continue to work on this over the coming months to explore a few use cases for managing imagery for ML based business models, including analysis for time series data and bookmarking, such as we did at Loggly with system logs.
A versatile product oriented cofounder who codes would be useful in taking this proof of concept to market.
Email kordless AT Gmails.
Unusual opinion alert: We think the future of chat starts with a better GIF camera. What we’ve built so far is basically like GIPHY or TENOR but all the GIFs are you and your friends. Not to flex, but it’s really fun to use. Just wrapped building the beta.
When you’re close with a group of people, you mimic each other: use similar words, slang, gestures, opinions. What we’re trying to do is build shared visual language. Instead of sending a emoji, send a GIF of yourself or a friend doing a party dance. Instead of sending a gif of Shaq doing a shimmy dance, make your own. Instagram filters made everyday people feel like their photos were good enough to share. We’ll make people feel like their gifs are expressive enough to share. You have to try it. It feels nonobvious until you try it. It’s not quite there yet but we’re not far off.
I’m a product designer…. Up until two weeks ago I freelanced designing the first versions of things for YC teams. (Warmly S20, Virtually S20, Zaam W20, Zippi S19). In prior lives built stuff for Intel, Intuit and Intercom.
I’m working with a crazy talented engineer (built Safari for the original iPhone launch) doing it for the cause but he has a family and won’t want to do this for more than a few months.
From a technology perspective we’re doing a lot of stuff with images and video, plus generalist “let’s move fast and learn” things. Over time we’ll invest in letting people deepfake themselves to make gifs and memes based on what is trending in their interest graph and the people we’re talking to.
This is gonna be a slog. We’re going to have to do the best work of our careers to have a shadow of a chance. This is a big bet. If we do it right, we have a chance to build the way everyone talks to each other.
Email me! I’m weird, often in useful ways. What the hell: maybe we’ll change the world.
brendanDmcdonald@gmail.com
We, at Valinor Earth, are building climate intelligence tools and data for profit and sustainability. Our current focus is Food - production, its transportation, and consumption.
My co-founder is super connected and we are land-grabbing really fast but yet to be revenue positive.
My official email is brajeshwar@valinor.earth and we are geographies agnostic team.
On a different note, Y Combinator has a Co-Founder matching[1] platform on its StartupSchool. Pretty interesting people there.
The industry has copied its print business models and simply put it content online. The UX, editorial operations, pricing models, all stuck in the past. For example, the choice of content is chosen at firm level and all lawyers have exactly same set of content. There is no content ratings and review systems in the software so publishers are missing an easy and cheap way to get valuable data which would aid in optimising content.
The solution I've specced caters for curating crowd-sourced content from practitioners (and providing them leads and publicity via their content in return).
Hi! I'm Adithya from Berlin. I've been building a job board for half a year and it's doing decently. I'm looking for a co-founder on the marketing and sales side.
It would be great if you're based in Berlin/Germany but remote is also good.
I've come up with several useful sections like hiring without whiteboard (1), four day weeks (2) etc. that has decent organic traffic.
Post mentions no job boards, hopefully that's only applicable to advertisements and not in this case.
Email is on the imprint on the website.
I’m a product manager that is sick of operations & other PMs asking me to write simple SQL queries or create tableau dashboards.
I’ve seen many friends/colleagues that say they want to learn SQL, but never do.
Yet, companies are looking for talent in all departments to learn these skills for decision making.
Rather than having non-technical people try to learn SQL and tableau, I’m exploring a product that translates human text into simple sql queries to enable data analysis for everyone without needing to learn SQL.
“How many [column name] did we have on [Date]”
This isn’t easy, but if done successfully will be extremely valuable.
I’m primarily looking for a data scientist with NLP experience, ideally around semantic search. However, I’m willing to chat with everyone who wants to!
Respond to this comment and/or Email me: wigrizer[at]gmail.com
I'm a technical guy, founder of Status Machine (https://statusmachine.com/), a pre-seed, pre-traction company that's building a dashboard (see the website for an example) for companies that manage many websites and need to see an overview of their status. Status = up or not, secure or not, etc.
I plan to integrate with as many tools as possible via webhooks and APIs.
I'm not sure what type of co-founder that I need. So feel free to get in touch, even if you are not sure either what you could bring to the company.
Email: julien @ the domain cited above.
I've created a Transactional Email provider (competitor to mailgun, postmark, SES etc.) https://ohmysmtp.com
We have some traction, with a growing customer base.
I'm looking for someone to help keep development moving at pace (specifically Rails, node.js/typescript + our OSS language integrations e.g. PHP, Python, Go), help with scaling out our servers, and drive more Developer-oriented marketing.
Email the support directly or reply here and I'll pick it up.
I'm building a Virtual Tabletop for RPGs: https://bonfiretabletop.com
I have a decent MVP online with a few active users, slowly getting out of the dark when it comes to awareness, primarily looking for someone with sales/marketing skills, social media/brand awareness, technical skills are also welcome. I'm an okay developer and improving (this project taught me a lot).
Email > contact AT bonfiretabletop dot com
OMPA is currently a PyTorch model that predicts if you’ll find a face attractive or not. It requires about 10 minutes of work from a user to gather enough data to train an accurate model specific to that user. It involves ranking 7 faces from most attractive to least attractive.
I have a working model that is good enough to be used as an auto-swiper, but my goal is more ambitious: solving the “stable marriage problem” and fixing digital dating’s well-understood problem: the most attractive users capture almost all the matches, leaving normal people like myself with less interest than we’d receive offline.
Also, we need to Optimize for Mutual Emotional Attraction. But one hard problem at a time! :)
To do this I need an equal partner who is great at “Product” — i.e., using an innovative technology like OMPA to create a product that people will actually find value in.
OMPA isn’t a product yet. It’s just a tool. The question is whether that tool enables the creation of a product capable of fixing digital matchmaking. I believe it can, but know myself well enough to know that without a brilliant CEO guiding it, OMPA will remain just a cool toy I tinker on.
I’d love to schedule a demo of anyone who is interested: nate.wildermuth@gmail.com
I am the solo founder of Scribie, an AI powered audio/video transcription service. Scribie originated as kind of a rebound project after my first venture failed. I just decided to put my head down and focus on building the product this time around. It worked and the business started growing. Scribie consumed my life for next couple of years and I was working 80+ hours per week doing everything from business development to writing code. I loved programming and I was having a blast. However, I made the bad mistake of falling in love with my product. It was my baby and I never allowed it to grow up. I have now fallen out of love. So after 13 years, here I am looking for a co-founder!
We are in a fast growing market and we have a good product (we did 1M in revenue in 2020 with zero sales/marketing). I think this is the right time to pivot to a traditional SaaS product. Given that others are at 100M ARR mark with similar products, we can definitely do much much more. I'm just looking for the right guy to execute this pivot.
I can be reached at rajiv at scribie dot com. Learn more about me at https://archive.is/CbCsi.
I'm based in the UK (Oxford). I'm open to a remote co-founder but I'd prefer someone in the UK so we'd be able to meet in person and get to know each other.
I've got a mixed background, I used to work in finance (did the CFA etc) but have worked as an engineer in the data space since 2016. I got to know the data industry and the analytical challenges that finance and marketing teams face really well, and now I want to solve some of the (many) problems I've encountered.
I have spent the last couple of months talking to as many businesses as I can. The goal has been to learn about how others are working and whether they have experienced the same problems as me. I am now quite confident in a few of my market hypotheses and I think I've got a promising direction to take an MVP in.
I've also been looking for a co-founder! I'm interested to meet anyone who is highly motivated, and who has expertise in the industry - either as an engineer or as a PM or in sales. Ideally you'll know what it's like to work for an early stage business, and you need to be willing to commit full time (for the right idea of course!). I will be putting _all_ of my time into this and I need to find someone who is willing to do the same. I think that there is a big opportunity to be had in the B2B data space over the coming decade, and there are loads of great businesses to be built.
If you're interested in setting up a call to get to know each other and see if there's a fit you can reach me at thomas dot d dot firth at gmail dot com.
Cheers!
Tom
edit: grammar
Zoned game servers, generation of building interiors and cities, perlin noise with layers, erosion, etc. I was inspired by outerra and others, but outerra is not planning to make a game so I want to do it. I have demos to show my progress.
I'm based in France, but I'm fluent in English and C++.
What Temin is: Create whiteboards, sticky notes and virtual displays in a multiplayer 2D + 3D virtual environment that acts like a version controlled graph database.
I built Temin out of frustration when I was trying to get a Big Idea about the future of computing out of my head and ran out of wall space. With that in mind, it would be good to find a co-founder that shares my vision of the future/the utility Temin/what it could become.
What I want to do: have/implement ideas, talk to stakeholders, lead people.
What I want in a co-founder: someone to compliment the above as much as possible, and is willing to help pick up whatever slack is left over. Understand how to give a startup the best chance of success? How to sell/market something? What I should actually be looking for and don't realise it? Contact me.
oli@temin.co.uk
Dev looking for marketing co-founder in edTech.
Devs don't teach programming in schools, because of small salary and loads of stress. Students don't seek programming, because it seems hard and boring.
Tinkr is bringing programming to schools. We offer any school teacher (physics for example) an opportunity to teach programming in their school. Training, materials, live coding environment, lessons and a professional coder helping in the background - everything a teacher needs to teach the class.
Tinkr also makes coding awesome by letting students write real-world webapps like websites, chat and multiplayer games that they can share to friends (they actually work, with database and everything).
I'm based in Estonia, looking for people that want to scale to the world, primarily missing a marketing person, but also designers, sales and wouldn't say no to dev help either.
First full-length course has been done and paid for. Students were thrilled.
Contact me hncof@krister.ee.
Reach me here https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-tewiah-8984231/ or via email: ed @ the domain above.
I’m building a product to replace Google Photos/Drive/Contacts for people who won’t/can’t store their data in the cloud. Self-hosting is currently a pain with poor UX and more worries about security and backups than most people want to deal with. I’m well on my way to creating an MVP proving that an alternative is possible, and just as easy and sleek as mainstream solutions.
I'm a sw/systems architect with professional experience in consumer electronics, and have the ability to develop the product on my own if need be.
Email: username @ gmail
We're rating data sets by their markets' performance. We're building the S&P 500 for data. Our website is https://rugpullindex.com. We're looking for someone that's interested in what we're doing. Ideally you're technical and you have no problem taking on responsibility.
We're grants-sponsored and we're not looking for VC money. I'd prefer if we bootstrapped. The job is remote and on a freelance basis.
I don't think we'd be offering any role or "co-founder" titles. Also, there won't be a classical salary. But since our project is quite young, I guess you can call yourself a co-founder.
The goal of Couchmate (https://couchmate.com) is to build the future of social interaction and community around live TV where current platforms (namely Twitter) have failed. Couchmate creates real-time, ephemeral chat rooms for every single live show across every provider in the USA and Canada, currently.
Looking for a co-founder whose strong in Marketing, brand building, growing social media accounts and has some graphic design chops.
I'm owning the entire engineering side of the company and have already built the apps and backend to scale up quickly.
Would love to connect if you're interested, hit me up. Email in bio.
I'm building a virtual coworking platform designed to help independent remote workers stay focused and accountable while building community and having fun during the work day. https://focusparty.com
It's currently myself (design & product) and another technical founder who have just gotten started. We're looking for a more senior-level CTO to join us to accelerate development and plan for the future.
We've been working on this for only a few weeks together and already have a few awesome communities signed up to pilot the closed-beta, which means instant-users the moment we launch.
If interested, please email steffan at focusparty dot com. :)
Blynd (https://eatblynd.com) takes the decision fatigue out of online food ordering. Restaurants serve one dish at a time. It is unknown to customers and can change at any time. Sound interesting?
Blynd is pre-launch and looking to get into 10 restaurants before launching.
About me: Software engineer at hedge fund, looking to spice up online food ordering with Blynd.
To apply, email me at nick [at] eatblynd.com, mentioning this post in HN & a description of why you think you'd be a good fit. You should be a foodie with a love for social media and design.
Looking for co-founder(s) in area ASIC Design/Verification/Tooling/Services, preferrably with good market understanding. I've have a chunk of experience in the industry both as designer & verificator and was trying to throw multiple ideas to start something own in that industry, but nothing sticks so far. Have deep understanding of VPI, how simulators and backend (synthesis and STA) work, so tooling may also be an option. Would also opt for a full turnkey SoC, if a good market niche is found.
mail me: asic (dot) rebels (at) gmail (dot) com
I'm looking for a co-founder with elixir and strong front-end experience or product and sales experience. Technical preference for now. If you like mycology and working with Neo4J feel free to drop a line!
The product I've been working on is intended for the pharma space and somewhat similar to Benchling but targeting a very specific agricultural niche. I've yet to start looking for institutional investment, but now that covid is over I have the bandwidth and drive to take this product full-time!
please email hydrated chia AT gmail DOT com
I'm building a web service to make it easier for developers to add media upload and playback capabilities to their apps at: https://view.dev
People with strong B2B marketing and sales skills is what I'm looking for to drive revenue growth, once we launch.
At the same time, I'm looking for more people with experience in building mobile apps.
Please email me, if this sounds interesting or if you have any feedback: admin [at] vcraft.net
Shushan, New York - Remote
Pokémon Go meets the environmental movement, enabling people with gamified missions and activities in the real-world to promote stewardship of their local environment and that of the world. Act local first, then think global.
I’m looking for someone to build this ground-up with me and give people a new way to engage with the environmental movement.
Email me, Michael Maturo, with a sentence or two about your interest: Mike at GoGreenGo.earth
Www.gogreengo.earth
Hi, I'm interested in joining as CTO, and I've 7+ years of experience of building web, mobile as.
My condition:
- Fair equity - Basic compensation for initial few months or MVP/Prototype
Why basic compensation: To showcase that you're serious about your idea. And tech development is not cheap. Till we build MVP, and launch in market, I should be compensated a fair amount for work done
So if you're interested mail me at "intragalaxycom @ gmail"
Looking for a co-founder for a project in edutainment space. Project is at an ideation phase, so the idea is still taking shape.
Looking for someone with C/C++, Unity and AR/VR/MR/XR experience or someone who has the confidence to ramp-up and excited to work in this area.
I have a tech background(C/C++, mobile, desktop and servers, some game porting and 2D graphics experience, etc)
email id: eWMuY29mb3VuZGVyLm1hdGNoQGdtYWlsLmNvbQo=
I'm starting a green hydrogen midstream company. Amazing team, product, promise. Pre-funding; working on site control for first project. We are still fleshing out the founding team. Feel free to say hi!
sdrost@gmail.com
I’m working on making it easier for amateur endurance athletes to take it to the next level. I’m at MVP stage but not married to the idea yet.
My forte is tech (Rails, iOS).
Ideal co-founder would be technical as well and I’m looking to bootstrap small but ambitious products.
Contact: rony at fadel io
Pref. strong marketing / growth hacking background. Node.js is a plus but not required.
/hey /at /passinghands /dot /com
I'm currently working solo on https://codeamigo.dev/.
I've got some positive feedback from the community here in the past (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26464998). I'm trying to grow the user base to generate some content/lessons more organically.
I'm looking for someone who is passionate about e-learning, design, and tech.
Need someone to talk to VCs etc. as too autistic to do it myself
Toonclip.com lets users create animations in minutes.
Looking for a marketing cofounder who can help in getting more users and traction.
Email leisenming AT protonmail DOT com to connect.
Looking for a growth marketing cofounder for our B2C SaaS offering. Contact details are in my profile.
pdf2qrcode (https://pdf2qrcode.com) makes any pdf reachable via a QR Code.
About me: software engineer at a university hospital.
To apply, email me at support [at] pdf2qrcode.com, mention this post and HN.
Very early stages, working on a no code product for that generates websites from video content. NLP/machine learning/React/Django/Airflow. Currently working as an engineer at a large tech company til I get this off the ground. Have a past minor startup success. Need a highly technical cofounder.