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Hello everyone,

we are running the annual survey again. Last year we had almost 2k responses, and it would be great to top that!

The survey covers all roles and levels: ICs, managers, directors and freelancers. This year we also added a couple of questions on benefits, remote work policies, AI adoption, and salary negotiation.

it takes about 4 minutes, and the full report will be published a couple of weeks after the survey closes.

Thank you so much!

Feedback/additional ideas welcome!

Link again: https://handpickedberlin.substack.com/p/issue1?s=w

Reminds me of the famous Wolf of Wall Street scene with M. McConaughey:

"Keep the client on the Ferris wheel, and it goes, the park is open 24/7, 365, every decade, every goddamn century. That’s it. Name of the game."

It does not mean you never can start something again! I am definitely gonna keep trying ... my thinking was only: I need to get more into a startup scene and Berlin should be a great choice for this.

Good luck with your search!

Yes, I have ... you are right, should have maybe mentioned it at the end.

I was looking at Product management mostly, and at the end ended up in Project management where I had most experience.

I admire this effort and wish you a lot of success with it.

I see three main problems:

1) tech people probably do not cook much and more order/eat out, so it is hard for me to imagine chefs/grandmas/not-tech-savvy people using it;

2) main problem for people cooking/experimenting is to decide what exactly to cook - and here you would usually go for something proven (e.g a cook-book or a website)

3) there is a reason not everyone can be a good recipe developer, because it takes a lot of experience and knowledge and you cannot really copy/paste and publish from existing pages/books. I am not sure if I would try a random "forked" recipe.

Good luck, I am interested in what comes out of it!

I really like the idea. I have something similar, but it's only my collection of excellent recipes at lindyrecipe.com

Much more basic idea, basically a blog with curated recipes.

Thanks for taking your time Kelly, you are right!

Link to Docsend: https://docsend.com/view/ewkqzza7izzsycf2

I am very new to this community, and you can immediately notice the high quality of opinions, ideas and good discussions.

Hi _ah, thanks a lot for this input, it really helps. I wish I read some of these points a couple of weeks ago, but ok, can't complain.

You are right, especially about user-research. I will do that.

I got some people interested, but again, you are right, feels like a blind date.

And of course it feels really weird to just publish everything. So, how would you tackle it? Just publish and hope nobody does it?

Thanks again!

Thanks for your thoughts, Irongirl1, I am actually based in Europe, so I hope there is some hope left. But I also get your point. I have gotten some nice feedback on my advert at least, so this feels good. I also got some "applicants", however only one followed my instructions. :) Also got bunch of people offering me their service...

I will check your suggestion! Thanks for taking your time.

Hm, that is an interesting point as well. I have a basis in Python, but I also know that my strengths are rather elsewhere, so then if I invest 18 months in learning to code it is still likely my coding skills will be below average and I will just add another "not really an expert" skill into my CV. You can see some of my context on the link I posted to other comments here in the thread.

Hi Patationo, I posted it here: https://bit.ly/cofounder-wanted

You are right, I was not sure if I can post it initially.

https://bit.ly/cofounder-wanted

So, at least ... I got some replies, do you think I should repost? I do not know how it works, because I only recently joined, and did not wanna come across silly.

No worries, I like your input. I think I am in the category of solid business knowledge/skills/experience :) And I am also curious to learn stuff and have some technical skills.

And I studied political science :) https://bit.ly/cofounder-wanted

Haha, I love your 99 analogy! I am in fact thinking in this direction already (eg. Zapier and similar) and will do majority of ground-work myself. But I am also aware that my topic is sensitive, so it will be hard to prove that it works.

I am worried there is a big difference between some playgorund and the real deal.

I was thinking about hiring someone - but then I also watched Y Combinator stuff and realised it will be very hard for me to iterate and that my failure probability will be much higher.

Ah and btw: here is my link https://bit.ly/cofounder-wanted

Yes, that is exactly what I did: https://bit.ly/cofounder-wanted

I was not sure if I am allowed to put links into the initial post, so I did not add it.

Thanks a lot Svennek. It makes a lot of sense what you are saying ... I have been getting some traction to my advert and I am also realising I need to learn to do at least basic stuff by myself.

Here is the advert: https://bit.ly/cofounder-wanted