Wanna team-up with an SRE to build a product and/or company?

[meysamazad]

Hey, dear hackers,

Firstly, this is my first submission, and anxiety is off the roof.

But, apart from that, I'd like to express my desire and passion to create a product, ideally with another technical co-founder.

I can't even be sure if I'd be criticized for asking it in this community, but, to be fair, I have already tried startupschool dot org for a few months, and I didn't find much luck.

A bit background about myself: I am a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer with 6+ years of production expertise, having hands-on experience in containerization and Kubernetes, GitOps, and especially FluxCD, different CI/CD vendors but specifically and recently GitHub Actions.

I regularly blog(ed) at developer-friendly dot com (prior to that, meysam dot io). I love what I do, and I am good at what I do. Now, I am confident that I can use all this gathered knowledge and channel it towards building a startup with another like-minded and passionate individual.

For your reference, here are the links to my profiles:

* linkedin dot com / in / meysamazad * github dot com / meysam81

I track ideas in Reddit & LinkedIn and I try to get inspired by other successful entrepreneurs, but honestly, I have no clue what is what! That is the main reason I am asking for a peer to join me building something together, maybe something in the following lines, though I am absolutely open to any possible other venture:

* Developer tools to increase productivity * Observability tool to focus on cost saving and low overhead * a SaaS of some sort that can deliver value to B2B and/or B2C

Please comment below to show your interest, or refer a friend you think might be interested.

I appreciate any and all helpful comments in advance.

[riffraff]

This makes me think: maybe a neat little project would be "tinder for founders" :)

[mettamage → riffraff]

As someone who has extensive experience in dating IRL and Tinder, be careful with that analogy.

Problem in romance: rejection

Proposed solution: Tinder allows you to swipe so no rejection is felt because no one rejects you in your face.

The current reality: most men get very few matches. When they do get a match, it converts to a date at a 10% rate at best.

I think a similar unintended thing will happen with Tinder co-founders.

[kevinmershon → riffraff]

This is effectively what Bumble Bizz is trying to be.

It's terrible

[gardenhedge → riffraff]

Ycombinationor themselves have this product

[fuzztester]

Some years back there was a site called techcofounders.com, by a Korean guy in the US.

I had signed up for it. I got quite a few invites to be a cofounder, but none of them worked out, either because I wasn't interested, or the other the guy wasn't, after we talked a bit about their plans and my skills, i.e. there wasn't a match, on either of those dimensions.

But I thought the idea of the site was a good one, with potential.

[mooreds]

Highly recommend reading all the stuff Amy Hoy has.

https://stackingthebricks.com/video-sales-safari-in-action/

Is a good place to start.

You want to find people who need something, then build it. Not the other way around.

As far as finding a co-founder, I'd reach out to people you worked with and enjoyed. Don't forget it is like getting married without the sex, so not something to enter into casually.

[mso96]

We are building AI first observability copilot as a startup; check out @infrastackai and @msefaoruc on Twitter. We would like to meet other people who are interested in observability. we are looking for new teammates

[technological]

I am very much interested. Can we have a quick meeting?