My Startup: A place for potential founders to meet
This isn't so much a new business as a new side project of mine. I've noticed a lot of people here and on other blogs and news sites saying how much they would like a place to find business partners. So in my spare time I put together http://www.FounderLink.com to fill this space. I've tried not to make just another social networking site and I am trying to keep the features as few and focused as possible while still being useful for the core functionality(Meeting potential business partners).
Any feedback or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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http://cofoundr.com
http://partnerup.com
like yours, they have various strengths; but a consistent weakness is that there's no inherrent reason for anyone to come back unlike say yc news or meetup.com
I agree that there is very little reason for people to keep going back once they have found a business partner which is why I'm keeping this firmly in the side project area.
I think the biggest issue is that unlike other partner matching sites(dating sites) you're not likely to get many people looking for casual short term business partnerships. :)
Thanks again for the comments.
Here's your intro page for me btw: http://www.simplebucket.com/p/mdeymdg.jpg
I agree with the login part and I am working on a demo/walkthrough for new users as part of an overall redesign of the landing page which is pretty blegh at the moment. But I'm not a very good designer, so if you know one perhaps recommend them to the site. :)
You can put in your OpenID url and receive full access that way but how else can I authenticate users without requiring them to sign up?