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I need a cofounder, so I built okcofounder.com
- te_chris 13y agoI've known Anthony for a while, good developer and fun guy to hang out with, hope this works well for him!
- cyphersanctus 13y agoDid anyone else think he created a solution for everyone and not just for himself?
- Macsenour 13y agoYep!
- 27182818284 13y agoI sure was. It is even styled to look like OKCupid, so I figured it would be matching people like that.
- dllthomas 13y agoThat was initially my assumption. Clearly, that's what he should build...
- girvo 13y agoI think that he should pivot his entire startup to build this.
- incision 13y agoI'm a bit disappointed. I was hoping for a full-blown site for entrepreneurial individuals to find and connect with each other.
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- epynonymous 13y agodoesn't angelist do some of the same things?
- vineet 13y agoIf you are looking for a full-fledged site, you might find these guys relevant: http://www.cofounderslab.com/ http://www.cofounderslab.com/ (I haven't used them)
- dhawalhs 13y agohttp://founderdating.com http://founderdating.com is another one.
- bravura 13y agoIf you are sick of co-founder dating and looking for that perfect match, are ready for something serious, why not consider: eCofounderHarmony.com (I just made that up. But perhaps the "eHarmony" approach to cofounder matches makes more sense than OkCupid. Since, ya know, you're "married" to your cofounder.)
- twic 13y agoAdultCofounderFinder.com?
- ISL 13y agocfHarmony.com ...
- simcop2387 13y agoI don't like that one, reminds me too much of cold fusion.
- michaelkscott 13y agoA little too much, you see.
- bazillion 13y agoPlenty Of Co-Flounder pocf.com
- unoti 13y agoCool site! Typo on the book The Selfish Hene.
- anthonycole 13y agoOops! Fixed that.
- tehrania 13y agoThere's a typo; the selfish gene.
- hjay 13y agoI get where the domain name comes from, but are you sure the co-founder you're looking for is only "ok"?
- nedwin 13y agoDo you feel the same way about OKCupid? "Are you sure the boy/girlfriend you're looking for is only 'ok'?"
- rdl 13y agoWith OKCupid, I thought it was implying the selection process is "just OK" -- as in it's a sort of effective but not perfect matching system. Not that the people found are only OK (I personally only ever found crazy people, but I know a few people who got married from OKC...)
- anthonycole 13y agoI actually don't have an OKCupid account. I deleted it a few weeks ago. I've heard of other people getting married and a few of my best friends met through a dating website, but yeah. I think that it's not necessarily because of it. danah boyd's talk here is a good reference: http://talks.webstock.org.nz/speakers/danah-boyd/culture-fear-attention-economy/ http://talks.webstock.org.nz/speakers/danah-boyd/culture-fea... The TL;DR I got from that talk is that "Internet bullying isn't bad as normal bullying, it is just portrayed differently". In line with that argument, I would say that dating websites in general just bring out those "crazy people" you meet in a different way. Because at the end of the day, the "crazy people" would still exist.
- goodside 13y agoThe story of the name "OkCupid" is here: http://www.quora.com/OkCupid/Whats-the-story-behind-OKCupids-name-How-did-they-choose-OK-as-the-prefix http://www.quora.com/OkCupid/Whats-the-story-behind-OKCupids...
- dylangs1030 13y agoI'm going to be frank with you, Anthony. I checked out okcofounder.com and read about you. Then I checked out your project, residen.se. In my humble opinion, I think you should abandon residen.se and work full time on okcofounder. This is not something I'm saying lightly. Consider it this way: 1. You designed and created okcofounder with a clear need in mind. I don't "feel" the same sort of inspiration and personal connection with residen.se 2. There are at least three comments at the time of this writing in this thread that express disappointment at okcofounder not being for finding cofounders and being applicable to their lives. You just got user feedback. 3. Residen.se looks like the perfect web 2.0 model of what a tech startup should be, but okcofounder is something that is immediately relevant and comprehensible on the front page. I had a little trouble figuring out what residen.se was for immediately. Not so with okcofounder. I'll come out and say that I'd pay for a service like okcofounder. I live in NYC and it's harder to find people than it is in Silicon Valley. okcofounder satisfies true entrepreneurial need - despite the odd fact that it's a meta-project, you created it trying to solve a problem for yourself. But there are users saying they'd love the idea on a wider, open scale. So do it.
- anthonycole 13y agoThanks man. I... kind of built it as a joke, yeah. I got bounced back from an incubator because I didn't have a co-founder and wanted to build something slightly ironic. I didn't think other people actually really had a need for something in that respect. But... I guess you have a very good point.
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- dylangs1030 13y agoI hope you don't take it the wrong way. I'm not criticizing residen.se - I'm just praising okcofounder a hell of a lot. But, hey, good response to being rejected. At least you're doing something about it.
- inspiredworlds 13y agoGreat response & bounce back after not getting into the incubator. Residen.se is a excellent idea trying to solve a problem in the lucrative real estate sector. I'm helping out Anthony, who is a good friend of mine and I use to share a house with him in Melbourne.
- HunterV 13y agoUnintentionally neat idea, but I'd be wary of the legalities behind using that name or any other variation of a popular dating site. They'll be onto you as fast as you gain popularity.
- anthonycole 13y agoI've added a campaign monitor subscription form to the site for anyone who's interested in potentially using an idea like this. I'm not sure where I'm going to take it, but if you'd actually use okcofounder for real, then I think we should keep in touch.
- krmmalik 13y agoYou seem to have gotten many positive comments already but just to respond to this point specifically. If it was a site as the audience was expecting i would have signed up and could have done with something like this a couple of months ago. I come across people quite often looking for co-founders. They don't necessarily need them, but that's their choice.
- unholyalliance 13y agowhy not something millionaire match maker styled, where you pay an MBA to get you hitched?
- gregcohn 13y agoPiling on the comments that say you should consider developing this as a general service. One constituency to keep in mind is the person who has a job but would quit it if they had the right cofounder -- ie some form of anonymous or semi-anonymous matching until both sides choose to reveal.
- weisser 13y agoI like this concept and I too was disappointed I couldn't sign up to check it out. I have a co-founder but I would love to try a service like this to bring on early employees.
- rickdangerous1 13y agoHey Anthony, If you do pivot and take okcofounder forward as your primary venture, can you do all us solo founders a favour? Can you NOT take on a cofounder for okcofounder? That way the irony of it all will make the startup scene a better place for solo guys like me. All the best!
- tuxidomasx 13y agoThis site was not what I thought it was. I want to find a match-- but nothing too serious... I'm really just looking for a good time. I want to be someone's interim technical co-founder with benefits for a while. Just temporarily. And not for equity (you see, I have a problem with commitment), but for cash. Just long enough to get their idea from conception to climax. And then we can part ways and I can find someone else who could benefit from my expertise. I need a high-end co-founder matchmaker service, and okcofounder was not that.
- epynonymous 13y agoanthony, just a note, you should also buy the domain residen.ce for the other half of the world that uses a bastardization of the english language :) you can just redirect to residen.se good luck with your venture. some thoughts on okfounder: 1. where is the return value of the site, in other words, if i found a great founder on the site and am happy with him/her, what incentive do i have to revisit? maybe your idea is that most people will start something else up, but that number won't necessarily be high. perhaps of more value is to find startup people, not just founders, but initial employees, founders, consultants, advisors, etc. 2. personally i don't feel some of the content are that relevant, such as your favorite artists/people, books you've read, there's a much better place for this information (facebook, twitter), you should link to those. you should put more things along the lines of what you're trying to build, personally, i don't think ideas need to be secret, that's what will really draw in a cofounder or employee, not whether or not you both like catcher in the rye.
- phylofx 13y agoFirst level .ce-Domains are not available for registration. The domain name is not that important anyway. Residen.se is fine in my opinion.
- lessnonymous 13y agoIMHO, it's more important to get residense.com than residen.ce I have a site that uses the '.se' and the (non tech) people who are my target market keep asking '.com?'
- synapticism 13y agoCute, but think twice about making this the focus of your time as people have advised above. Finding a cofounder is a pain point for many people (myself included) but the market can't be very large. You will also have to address a challenge that regular dating sites have, namely that those who successfully find a match will no longer use your service. Unlike regular dating sites, cofounder-matching sites seem stacked with people looking for help with their idea, perhaps because those willing to work for someone else already have a job and aren't as driven to get involved. Are there really an equal number of people who think "I'd love to work on a startup but don't have an idea of my own that I am passionate about"? That being said, none of the cofounder-matching sites I've used have solved my problem so I suppose there is room in this space. If you did take a cue from OKC and institute a system of curated user-generated Q&As you might be on to something. The services I've used were primitive in their matching ability (e.g. I am a developer looking for a designer, which tells you nothing about values, principles, working style, etc.) so hey, maybe you could make it work.
- qompiler 13y agoYour website is blocked on any major corporate network with a web-filter for using "dating" in your title, just letting you know.