If you found your co-founder online: What's your story?
Title says it all!
If you originally met your co-founder online (even if you later met up in real life), what's the story? How/where did you meet, how did you start working together, what made you decide to try building something long-term, and what has your experience been so far?
And if a partnership w/ a co-founder you met online already ended: Was it worth it? Would you do it again? What would you do differently?
PS: Good opportunity for a shameless plug for the project you're both building, you have my blessing!
Hey! I met @JeroenvanGils in an online community for founders and execs called fireside!
We talked about some topics and at some point came up with the idea for fullservice, setup a voice meeting and started building it.
Btw: We are running www.fullservice.co , a productized service startup delivering development and marketing services to bootstrappers and businesses.
We were motivated for this because current marketing and development agencies are overcharging and intransparent to the customer, thus we created small, result oriented service packages with transparent and fair pricing.
So far it's been great, we already have customers and are now growing everyday :)
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Built http://www.githustle.com for this exact purpose. I found that finding a non-technical co-founder online usually resulted in getting a ton of "pitches" for me to build their MVP.
I wanted a developer-centric site that allowed developers to "pitch" their products and attract some non-technical talent (sales, marketing, biz dev) to partner with.
I'd love to hear feedback!
I like your focus on the dev<>marketing relationship. It's not right to find a co-founder in the general sense (not just dev/marketing), but that focus is its value.
Increasing the value of the average post (e.g. w/ more detailed curation/questionnaires) could be helpful.
Couldn't agree more here. The rationale behind the hyper-focused site is to get talented people with complementary skill-sets working together.
Typically developers need help with marketing/sales and sales/marketing needs some technical help from developers.
My hope is that brining together a pair like this can produce some awesome results.
We are all product people at the end of the day and have a vision and a burn in the belly.
Pretty sure the term "founder" was barely used back then - I worked in collaboration with Spec Bowers on his AppMaker (Classic Mac) code generator product back in the 90's. We "met" because I started using the product, gave feedback, wrote articles about it for MacTech and ended up writing a companion product that generated Windows apps. We collaborated informally in this manner for about 8 years.
We had a joint booth at a couple of Macworld San Francisco trade shows in I think 1997 and 1998 then the show became less relevant as Apple ceased to participate. With the changes for OS/X he ended up effectively killing the product, as Apple for a very long time refused to give out enough details for the purely binary nib format and he couldn't afford to keep reverse-engineering to generate them.
For what it's worth I now have the rights to it. In an amazing coincidence, ended up using it and my knowledge in 2009 to help a local company move their product to Windows - they had originally generated the GUI with AppMaker and I was able to pick up their original file and use it for the new GUI. I wrote the final code generator for AppMaker to generate a WPF app.
I met my cofounder by initially joining a community he was starting to help users get into development. After quite a few of suggestions I joined to help on the community.
We are now working on our second project together, a customer support tool to help small and medium business move from email based support to an online tool called CloudSPRT (https://www.cloudsprt.uk).
Kind of shocked at the lack of answers here... If anyone is looking for a co-founder, you could try my website https://cohounder.com.
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Ah. You do know how to get my attention. Consider my interest piqued. 🧐
You're welcome to ping me here (or on Twitter: SebVercammen) when you publish.
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