Partners for what? What space are you working in? What is your domain of competency? Are you the product visionary guy, the business execution guy, the technical execution guy? Is there a particualar location you need to be in? Is there anything you've done in the past that indicates you've got the right DNA for your role and the space you want to be in? So to review: 1) What? 2) Why? 3) And why with you?

Come on, sell me a little.

Not to divert too much attention from the OP, but where might individuals go for this purpose online? Specific forums? Meetups? I want to meet programmers with the desire to start something together as well, but am embarrassed to say I don't know where to look, and I want to find ways to go out and hang with people locally to have a good time with a common purpose: talking technology, science and the future. The ideas we want to develop into reality.

You gotta KNOW people, as in personally, before you can make that invitation... I would never dump my thoughts and hopes onto a stranger, but a cup of coffee a few weeks in, and you have a good bead on a friendship prospect. Where can I find these guys outside of a college bar, which is creepy as hell, being as I am no longer in college. Can you imagine the conversation/intro: "Hey buddy-- you code?......<cough>"

Where do you meet people that are legitimately interested in talking shop about this kind of stuff, assuming you don't have them in your circle already?

Go to Meetup.com, find a local user group for whatever language/technique/framework you like working in and go to the meetings. When you are at the meetings actually get involved and introduce yourself and ask people about what they are working on.

I actually poked around and couldn't find anything relevant on MeetUp... I was hoping there was a super-secret underground group of coderhippies that congregate somewhere I've never heard of... alas, my search continues.

Well, i am a developer, i know a few languages including Java,C++, C#, Groovy, and a few other scripting languages.

I had a different entrepreneur tech idea in my mind at the time i posted this question here. Now since there's no place on the web to find coder-hippies ;) or business/marketing entrepreneur people, why not create a place for all those entrepreneur students who are looking to connect to one another. I don't mind anyone stealing this idea and working on it, but if there's anyone who would like to join me in creating this application please buzz me.

I am living in a Asian country, and geographical location would not effect a startup.

let me know, what you think :)

My thinking as well...

So any plans to work on it :D

This. http://www.guotime.com/2011/07/how-to-have-successful-early-...

Except for people even earlier in the chain. I'm talking no investors (in any official capacity) or anything formal/markety- Just guys and ladies that want to find people that want to flesh out their ideas through exposure to like-minded people. I can envision forums with a geography element that is specifically oriented towards orchestrating get-togethers. Or even better, how about using Elgg to make open networks to connect people by interest? http://www.elgg.org/about.php

That would be cool.

My internet is down outside of work, so I'm limited to my phone currently, which I'm glad to have, but loathe to use for extended typing. Thoughts?

Whatever this is, you want it to create a "culture of intent" that clearly demonstrates to its users that the goal is community interaction, cooperation, and friendly optimism. We need someplace a little more personal and under-the-radar where we can enter the software development scene, such as it is, so that we can share our early education with smart people near to us, so we can combine the best elements of "hometown familiarity" with global, futuristic scope and stage.

The division if labor has brought us here to this place on YC together- it's simply in our interest to find find each other near where we sit- at home. It makes sense to combine intellects and personalities to help guide the way to the many big-time plans and creations. I want a hometown launching pad for getting to San Francisco Bay, custom built to show me the local people reading this that want the same challenging but totally do-able map to creating world-wide success in the technology world. I'm looking at this world, and it's in need of an on-ramp to all the talent percolating in every small town on the map. Imagine the state of science today, the internet being one lense of which, where every truly interested person within 1000 miles of you were able to go to the same places to feed their computing human culture- face to face, instead of looking at everyone in the internet world as a collection of digital sentences, with the 3/5 conveyance of intent delivered, which is the average ability of a written sentence to say exactly what was intended. The other 2/5 is body language and eye contact. We should make real efforts to find each other and create from our current homes, until we have a stable of nailed-down implementations we can confidently present to the pro's.We have the neighbors nearby that want to work together, with smart, cool, fun, and dedicated people. We each try our best to be that way ourselves. I see so many of you here- I wish I could meet you and talk about these amazing, exciting advances in our technology and abilies to change the world in incredibly powerful ways. I think we should make a network that exists for this purpose. I want to work with you people. We all want the help from our friends, so we should put these friends of common interest together. Plus, there's beer, social commentary, new information, and connection to the bigger world. That would be cool. Would you agree?

yeah, sounds good to me. i looked at elgg as well, i believe one should create this social engine from scratch. It could be innovative and who knows, we might be able to make it better than elgg it self. your thoughts?

Perhaps ground-up would be effective in the long run, but my imagination wonders if an index of pre-populated mini-networks all rooted on one "jump page" might work better in the near-term. At least that's the functionality I imagine- the index could be similar to a traditional forum layout, where the categorized interests lead you to Elgg-like (again, only as an example) focus- and/or geographically-specific group of people. They would of course be fully capable of interconnecting between other networks throughout the site, but the goal here is sharing among people in your local group of like-minded people. It's fun to think of the possibilities here- there are many. Back to you- PS- just saw this and thought it might apply http://blog.garlicsim.org/post/7699968171/why-making-a-cool-...

http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/ http://www.meetup.com/trizpug/

Seems like there is a bunch of stuff in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill. It may be a bit of a drive for you - not sure how far away from that area you are - but if you are really interested it might be worth a drive up there once a month.

It's about two hours... If I didn't already work 6 days a week between three jobs, is be down for the road trip... But a man's gotta sleep sometime

It might be helpful to know where you are, as obviously the options vary hugely.

Wilmington, NC. Not a computer nerd mecca, per se... well....per anything, really. I've thought about maybe Craigslist, but that seems 'off' somehow. I don't use facebook.

I dunno-- I'll find people, but I'm still open to suggestions. I may try something interesting.