-- I just have to say, many of my comments are getting downmodded, I am answering legitimate concerns to a legitimate posting. If someone has a deeper problem of more than just "I don't think this will work and I don't agree with what you're doing" kindly let me know.
Sorry to say, but after reading this thread, my gut feeling is 'run away as fast as possible'. I think others are trying to communicate the same more politely.
One important thing that you are missing: you would not want to startup with someone you don't know from before, and have complete, blind trust in. And you cannot 'hire' a cofounder. You hire workers, but a cofounder doesn't work for you, by definition.
I have a deeper problem with it. You are bringing NOTHING to the table. I said it: NOTHING. And you are trying to EXPLOIT an engineer, someone who has developed ACTUAL SKILLS through YEARS OF HARD WORK, STRESS, AND FRUSTRATION. These skills have GLOBAL SOCIAL VALUE. That means that people are willing to PAY ENGINEERS MONEY on the market in order to build things. You claim you are bringing an IDEA, but truly, ideas are WORTHLESS: NOBODY will pay you money for them. On the other hand, if you have something PATENTABLE, that's a different story.
If you had been around the site a while, you would have observed these things for yourself. Oh wait - checking out your profile, you have been around for over a year. In my opinion, your complete lack of social/political savvy will lead to your complete failure as a businessman.
"Hero on the quest for truth" ay? thought you'd be more skeptical than cynical.
I'll bring my money to the table if all else fails, that has currency, and it's something that many software developers are solely only interested in: they'll bleed you dry, I've seen it for myself. You think I'm trying to exploit people? Wrong. A sense of ownership and shared success is what I though approaching this community could garner for my idea, if there were any takers.
You can take a horse to the water but you can't make it drink.
I agree that it's not fair for you to be downmodded so ruthlessly. I think you're getting a lot of decent feedback on this thread about why your approach to starting a company through YC might be misguided. So I did whatever I could to at least raise your comments up to a 1.
Friendly request to moderators: please only use 0 and below for trolls and other unhelpful comments - don't just downvote because you disagree with the commenter.
