Idealy we should have profiles with location, url, short description and email address fields.
If that doesnt happen then this cofounders meetup board would be good. Count me in. You can find me via danshub.com or contact me at [email protected].
Re:Applications open for summer 2007 YC funding
by mattculbreth on Thursday February 22, 2007 @12:09PM
(#500)
Actually, why not do it here? I bet that sort of functionality could be integrated somehow into this site, and from Paul's first post to the group on the reasons for the site I think it would fit in well.
Then again you won't be able to use Ruby...
Re:Applications open for summer 2007 YC funding
by sharpshoot on Thursday February 22, 2007 @12:14PM
(#501)
yeah if we fill out the profiles - and add a location and status field. It'll work pretty well at first - as you can browse people's profiles to see if they are also looking for a co-founder etc. Things can then be taken up on email
Re:Applications open for summer 2007 YC funding
by omarish on Thursday February 22, 2007 @12:19PM
(#502)
Very good idea. We can assume most people here are in the startup community.
So perhaps there should be a search by location field on a page here so that people can find each other.
Re:Applications open for summer 2007 YC funding
by jamiequint on Friday February 23, 2007 @04:59AM
(#646)
if you guys are interested I could host this (the site and SVN) and maybe hack away at it a little bit (If you're doing it in Rails) I totally feel you on this one, its shouldn't be as hard as it is to find passionate people who are technical AND entrepreneurial.
Re:Applications open for summer 2007 YC funding
by omarish on Friday February 23, 2007 @12:09PM
(#706)
I'm with you. Paul - what do you think about this? Hosting that sort of thing here would foster the entire YC community, but doing it over there means a more select user base of people who are specifically looking for partners to work with.
We'll gradually be adding more features of this type.
Re:Applications open for summer 2007 YC funding
by danw on Thursday February 22, 2007 @11:21PM
(#607)
http://www.buildv1.com/ may be what your looking for.
Re:Applications open for summer 2007 YC funding
by sharpshoot on Friday February 23, 2007 @03:44AM
(#637)
buildv1 is quite rigid - and it doesn't have the activity of this site. I think the principle of buildv1 is great and essential - i'm not sure if the execution is quite correct.
Re:Applications open for summer 2007 YC funding
by sharpshoot on Thursday February 22, 2007 @11:52AM
(#497)
hey omarish - i'm in on this. Shoot me an email. Sumon [at] zintilla [dot] com
Re:Applications open for summer 2007 YC funding
by drop19 on Saturday March 10, 2007 @02:35PM
(#3443)
all,
I decided to give this a try. Please let me know what you think:
http://www.founderfinder.com/
Re:Applications open for summer 2007 YC funding
by jamiequint on Friday February 23, 2007 @04:59AM
(#647)
forgot the email.... its jamiequint **AT** gmail
I propose we make a simple site that allows hackers find one another, locally. A single hacker isn't going to make a Meetup group to find other hackers; that takes too much work. It should be more like Craigslist, but for this startup community. Sorted by city, people can exchange email addresses, screen names, and most importantly, ideas.
All it takes is two founders, and you never know what kind of matches people will find.
Granted, they should know that they can work together before taking on a huge project, but I think that something of this sort will really help people discover one another and get their startups going.
I'm not suggesting we re-invent Craigslist, but there are enough people here to merit something like this. Ruby on Rails, anybody?