Probably a boring story but I worked with my co-founders for years at a larger company before we agreed we wanted to scratch our own itch, quit, and make a startup. Nothing beats a multi-year test drive.

Indeed, my co-founder and I were colleagues at the time and we were given the opportunity to lead a new service (almost like a startup inside a larger company), with me as the technical lead and him as the business lead. We had discussed starting a company before, and we thought it might work, but after that we knew it would work. Five years in and I have no regrets.

All online. Places like reddit, indiehackers, programming groups on discord/slack, YouTube videos (with chat groups associated to them). Wherever you hangout online - find those chat groups and reach out to people. Because of that I've been able to build/ship 3-4 different projects with people I met online - for some of these I've worked with the same developers.

A lot of the advice around finding a co-founder is focused around college/childhood friends. And I think that's why most brush off online forms of finding partners to work with as inferior :shrug: - I think this is a mistake.

Quit viewing it as finding a co-founder and just view it as finding people to build and ship cool stuff with. It takes some of the pressure off the interaction and gives you all a chance to just practice working together.

Also if you want to collaborate on something find my email on my profile and here is my github https://github.com/roymoran. There just did it. If it works out cool, if not cool.

People that just want to collaborate and build stuff will do so. I don't think you need much convincing.

I hung around with friends who talked about starting businesses. One guy was experienced with distribution but attracted to tech. I set up a meeting with him, asked him to start a business together, and he was an excellent co-founder. Not everyone has to be friends for years, and many long term friends ended up terrible.

The other option is to solve a problem and see who is obsessed with solving the same problem.

I have the same problem I have a lot of good ideas and no one to work with. Maybe we should go solo like Jeff Bezos.

Thank you guys. Appreciate your inputs.