I've been building Polar for the last 4-6 months. Launched about 3 months ago.

We're doing VERY well. 65% growth last month and 7000 users - all organic growth via word of mouth. Our users have uploaded over 100GB of documents and annotations in the last three months.

We're on target to hit these numbers again this month.

Revenue is doing well too and is typically what one would see from a freemium app (5%).

None of this was via SEO or any marketing - it's all just because users love the product.

I'm looking for 1-2 co-founders with some combination of the following skillsets:

React + Frontend. You're a React ninja. You think Typescript is awesome. Understand JSON + REST APIs and love webapps.

Design + UI/UX. This is going to be a consumer product so I'm also open to someone REALLY strong in UI/UX and hopefully understands enough coding that they could work on the frontend. This is going to be a consumer facing product so having solid design is important. I want to gamify the system to really encourage the users to stay involved.

Growth. Someone VERY strong in growth. The plan is to grow this to 100M users and I want to start measuring retention, conversion, and build a scientific platform for optimizing which features to ship.

Right now I'm working on raising grants + planing a seed round. If the grants come in we might just work on the grant funds while improving the core product for the next year to avoid raising VC and selling part of the company.

I've been a successful entrepreneur in the past. I've ran my last company for the last ten years. 7 figures of revenue. Sold my previous company to Six Apart. Sold my company before that as well.

Invented RSS and tons of web tech and Open Source.

I'm VERY passionate about this project. Working 10-12 hours per day 6 days a week.

It's also a product that I need. I won't rest until I have it...

I was working on a doing a previous startup when I came up with the idea for Polar. What you see on the site is only the tip of the iceberg. I think it's going to be ground breaking. Something you can tell your kids about.

Send me a PM and lets discuss.