Ask HN: Who Is Looking for a Cofounder?

Please indicate if your ideal cofounder is or not TECHNICAL and what skills you'd like them to excel at. Also present your startup or idea here. Tell us what's it that makes you unique or distinguishes you from your competitors as well.

Don't forget to include an email people can get in touch with.

Location Station — AI audio local + global news (equity-only, pre-funding) Building a hyper-local, AI-personalized audio news app. Daily spoken briefing with detailed follow-ups + convai; publishers paid by attention minutes (incl. conversational minutes via explicit citations). Potential patent around multilevel provenance chains. Think Spotify AI DJ meets Apple News.

Looking for:

Technical cofounder (LLM/audio + mobile): prod LLM/audio, streaming, evals, retrieval, latency/cost tuning. Stack: Node/TS, AWS, DynamoDB, OpenAI Assistants, ElevenLabs; mobile: Kotlin/Android, iOS (Swift/SwiftUI), React (web); ffmpeg multitrack mixing; HLS/WebRTC.

Non-technical cofounder (content/revenue): newsroom/media operator; publisher sourcing, licensing, payouts, GTM for SF + North Bay. Status: prototype components running; 10-min demo slice; early publisher outreach. Terms: pre-funding, significant equity-only; remote-friendly (PT), Bay Area plus. Email: david at locationstation dot net.

5 months agoby eniveld

Don’t do this imo.

You can try YC co founder matching but that’s also filled with incompetent people at best or toxic snakes at worst who will waste your time end of the day, especially if you have made progress already.

Your best best (if you’re serious and not just a fan of calling yourself a FOUNDER) is to just learn, build, and sell.

Learn what you don’t know. Build what you can. You need to get comfortable being uncomfortable.

Your cofounder is probably burning out at a golden handcuffs job and might see your progress and want to join.

Don’t waste your time or worse equity (yes 1yr cliff and vesting, but still you’ll meet complete idiots who don’t understand anything who just waste your time) on randoms who are probably 5% as passionate about the problem you’re trying to solve.

Hire people if you need. There are loads of people who are open to work right now and you can hire them on fixed contract.

6 months agoby moomoo11

I'm a product designer / dev - usually doing a ton of solo side projects. Looking for a cofounder with design and dev knowledge to collaborate on cool projects together. I have a list of ideas I'd love to share over a call

some recent things I've made https://www.mindthenoise.com/ https://www.realtimefascism.com/

I don't have an anonymous contact method so just DM me here https://bsky.app/profile/realtimefascism.com

6 months agoby visekr

I'm working on a project of next generation large manned space station, to replace aging ISS. Looking for cofounders - technical (aerospace, mechanical, electrical, software etc.) or business (skills in market of ultra-high net worth individuals, possible crypto funding, wide networking in the space or customer industry like biotech wouldn't hurt). Most important skills are enough interest in space and serious, cofounder-level approach to participation. The project is employing new launch technology - large payloads and low price to orbit, something which competitors are apparently undervalue. alex.mikhaylov@stridentspace.com .

6 months agoby avmich

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I'm a fullstack dev looking for a cofounder with contacts for B2B (coding skills not needed), maybe YC companies themselves, and that's good at selling. The project is about bringing 1,000 employees to your pocket, like Devin AI but for anything. The ideal customer are startups that need quick fixes in many different areas integrated in their environments (Slack, GitHub, Discord...) rather than big enterprises. Hit: contacto.nty.es@gmail.com

Recent projects I made: https://donsir.com/, https://arcalate.com/, Arcal language learning app

6 months agoby dontoni

Looking for a partner or three for doing a space tech company. I have an idea for a reusable, simple spacecraft that can wait in orbit and be contracted out to link up with orbital payloads and safely return them to earth.

6 months agoby bilsbie