#looking-for-cofounder
Tl;dr: Technical cofounder with an alpha version of a webapp, looking for another cofounder to take it to the next level for fun and profit.
For the last few months I’ve been developing the Get In Touch webapp. I spend 15-20 hours/week on it. You can check it out here, though, be warned, it’s still an alpha version, so there are still more bugs and usability issues than there are features! https://www.getintou.ch . I'm working on it rapidly, though, so I expect it to be a much more viable MVP in around a month.
I started developing Get In Touch because I was frustrated by my inability to keep up with friends and relatives. The app helps you remember who you want to talk to, and how frequently. It’s all about helping you build stronger one-on-one relationships.
The idea is that the app will:
People seem excited when I talk to them about this app idea. It seems almost everyone wished they did a better job of staying in touch with friends. About 25% of developers I mention this to say they’ve considered building something like this themselves! I think there’s a lot of opportunity here.
Besides the potential profit, here’s what you could get out of this:
On top of all that, our cofounder agreement would stipulate that we’re both free to use the generic webapp code from our codebase to create a boilerplate, which we can each use for free, and without restriction, on future projects.
I’m open to meeting remotely, if you’re not in the SF bay area. I’m interested in other types of collaboration, too, so hit me up if you want to suggest other ways we can work together.
I'm also open to working with a non-coding cofounder.
Tech details, since I've gotten some questions about it: Node/Postgres/Express on the backend, and React/Redux on the frontend.
Hey I'm in the bay area and thought this was a cool idea! I could help out with some design if you still are looking
Cool, I'll email you!
Hey feldspar idt I got ur email. Mine is kawallis@icloud.com and my telegram is cwallywall
I wonder whether looking for another technical co-founder is the right approach. I think there's a danger here in over-featuring your product. Given that your core value proposition is to help people keep in touch with friends and relatives, does your app need to do anything other than send reminders?
I've actually been giving this problem some thought recently. Maintaining my professional network is something I've not done a very good job of in the past. As a part of running my first business, I build up many contacts in the regional K-12 education market. Unfortunately, I haven't really kept up with any of them since I shut the company down. Now that I'm trying to start a second, I realize that I should have put more effort into maintaining those connections.
There are many people whose livelihood depends on building professional networks. Having a tool that goes beyond LinkedIn or Salesforce might be a real asset to those people.
Anyway, I'm rambling now. I'd concentrate on what your core value proposition is. Then concentrate on getting the product in front of users and see what happens. Finding a co-founder who enjoys the marketing side of the business could be a real asset in accomplishing that.
I'd definitely consider working with a non-coding cofounder. Someone with great design skills, or excellent marketing abilities, for example, could also be great to work with. I'll add that to my post.
That said, there is a lot more feature work I want to implement, which I think is important to give the app enough value to stand out. If the app didn't do anything more than send reminders on a per-contact schedule, then it doesn't offer anything more than, say, a set of calendar reminders. As a user myself, I want a lot of the other features I described above, which all require coding, beyond just sending user notifications.
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