A lot of my friends at the Founder Institute are actively looking for co-founders (http://founderinstitute.com). And they have very cool projects spanning very diverse industries. You can check a more detailed list at http://www.thefunded.com/job/list

Bottom line: if you are serious about joining a startup pre-funding, where most of the fun and the action is, Silicon Valley is full of such opportunities.

The challenge is to build trust so that the team doesn't break apart after a month. How can you trust a stranger? Friends of friends are a great way to start. Ask people you trust who they trust.

I'll start with my own background and requirements -

I'm currently working on a social shopping startup - Shopialize. Shopialize is a Founder Institute (http://founderinstitute.com) incubated company. Currently I'm the only founder and developer at Shopialize. I'm actively developing the product and hoping to launch beta by October.

I'm seeking a bay-area based talented and passionate backend developer to join me as a Co-Founder to build this innovative and valuable product which will help consumers to discover great products and save money when they buy products.

Responsibilities: As a technical Co-Founder, you'll be primarily responsible for scalable software architecture and backend technology. You need to have experience in data-mining, information retrieval, and search engine technologies. It'll be great if you have experience in semantic web and machine learning as well.

I'm proficient in PHP and MySQL technologies, but if you convince me that we need to use other technologies, then I'm open to listen and change if it makes sense.

Compensation: It will be generous co-founder equity. If you want cash as well, then we can discuss cash+equity model as well. But Shopialize is currently in a pre-financing stage, so cash will be reasonable. To start with, you can start working with me in the part-time with minimum time commitment of 20 hours per week. When the company secures financing, you can expect a salary that will rise over time as revenue grows. It will then require a full-time commitment.

Contact: If you are interested, then please write to me aditya.kothadiya at gmail.com. You can send me your resume, or link of exciting projects you've done. We can meetup locally and then discuss the details in person.

To learn more about me, my recent project was http://tweeght.com and my blog is http://adityakothadiya.com

Don't look for a cofounder by stating the technical requirements -- that sounds like a job posting. If you want your technical founders to feel vested in the company, they'd prefer to hear what the company is aiming to do.

I understand your point, but I disagree.

I don't think I've posted a job posting. I'm still being very broad in description. But I'm looking for a co-founder who is more experienced in backend technologies. I'm not looking for passionate startup person who is great in design, and have no experience in backend. I'm trying to compensate my skills.

About what the company is aiming to do - I can't write all the details openly and with everybody. My approach is to discuss the details with the right set of people - on one and one basis. Once someone shows any interest, then I'll discuss the details with him.

I'm looking for a co-founder in Seattle. I have product ideas involving voice-to-text, automatic speech recognition, and mechanical turk, but would love to discuss other ideas as well. I'm an experienced Python/Django developer and Linux server admin, created Browsershots in 2005. Email is on my profile.

You mean like Jott? ;-)

Yes, but for transcriptions of hour-long material like podcasts, interviews, speeches, essays, long emails. So it would be more like castingwords.com but faster and cheaper because of speech recognition.

I'm working on speech stuff as well but geared towards telephony. Its a hard task.How far along are you?

You mean like Twilio or lavarockhq.com? I know it's hard but I consider that an advantage. But I'm still brainstorming, exploring existing solutions, and working on a very basic demo to see if it can be done with open-source software.

Not like either except for the speech component. Yours can be done using the speech open src sft but the accuracy will be bad unless you buy or make a good acoustic model. Very painful.

Yes, but the acoustic model (or models if you account for male/female and different accents) can be improved with all the input that the service gets over time. The bad accuracy can be fixed by human intelligence using Amazon Mechanical Turk.

Always looking for help, I've got too many ideas and not enough time. To the point I did http://www.collegecofounders.com/beta/. Feel free to add to that listing. :)

Hi quizbiz, I've added my info to your site but some fields got (severely) truncated. I am, in fact, not a lamp, but a LAMP / Android developer :) You may want to add some "maxlength" attributes to your form fields, or else expand your database field length to accommodate more info. Thanks!

Earlier this week I kicked off Italian Graffiti Factory, which is an overly-pretentious name for a site that is focused on bringing together co-founders and helping them to get and stay motivated. For the alpha stage, the site is going to be very specifically focused on helping co-founders to come together to build a prototype and submit a killer application for YC Winter 2010.

If you're interested, you can check it out here: http://www.igfactory.com

Im interested, but live no where near the Valley. Located in Melbourne, FL...

My contact info is in my user info on HN. Find me and we can talk if you don't get any hits on this.

Sure. I'll keep you in mind if things don't work out here.

Cambridge, MA mobile startup here. Our dev team is located abroad, graphic designer in Silicon Valley, and we could use the additional dev help (front-end/server-side) in Boston to work on the next iteration of our app. New platforms, new servers, new features, and plenty of challenges to keep us busy. Userbase is about 10K at this point, and we're working on a business model. We've been a top 30 free social networking app on iTunes a few times since launch. Funding from friends, family, and fools (the founder). Looking to contact with co-founders in the Cambridge area.

We (2 of us) have a Ruby on Rails app in the online classifieds space that is in an "Alpha" stage.

We have an exciting opportunity to be in front of lots of important people in the very near future, and we're looking to round out our team with someone who possesses the technical chops we lack.

We have lots of plans and we're looking for someone who wants to really dig in with us, get involved, and contribute. Get in touch, let me know if you have any questions. Looking forward to telling you all about it! Thanks! gb5150 [at] gmail [dot] com

I'm looking for a graphic designer and/or sales guy and/or information architect, usability guy.

I'm a python and javascript hacker. I have a couple of ideas, but the one I'd like to persuade is real-time web analytics with understandable, beautiful presentation of data and statistics to the user. However I'm not insisting on this, I'll gladly discuss your ideas.

Interested? Let's talk; contact details are in my profile.

I'm looking for a co-founder. I have an app in true beta stage that's going ... nowhere. I'm looking to sell what I have, or find someone with the spark to reanimate it.

I'm in MA, and not willing to relocate (have a fam/business). Don't need someone local, just someone with passion and the geek cred to make my (and soon our) vision real.

Anyone looking for a co-founder in NYC? My email address is in my profile.

Just FYI, I don't see an e-mail address if I click on your username here. I am logged in.

(I'm not looking for a co-founder at the moment, but would be interested to hear about any projects going on in the DC area.)

Thanks for the heads up. Fixed.

Interested, but your profile seems empty..

I don't know that we're looking for a co-founder at this point -- we have a team of three that should pretty well cover our needs.

But we'd really love to find a good graphic artist for icons, layout, etc.

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I was hoping you'd give some login information in the comments, too, so curious ones could take a look.

Ah, that's not actually our project -- that's an old(er) site of mine that I use for client work, etc. The front login never got completed.

The comment there was a bit tongue-in-cheek. It's for some old JS that once upon a time faded in / faded out a "coming soon". Bleah.

checkout logomyway.com

crowdlancing logo design. You can ask for a project and find a good designer that you can keep working with.

Why did you choose them instead of the most popular 99designs? I'm curious.

I had forgotten about 99designs; thanks. There's some pretty impressive stuff on there that's exactly what I'm looking for.

You're welcome.

Looking to do a startup, doesn't matter where ping me with details.

You should check out my company:

www.transactor.com

Also, take a look at my post about the type of person I'm looking for.

If you are interested, please feel free to shoot me an email and we can setup a time to talk.

-Scott

I'm in the UK. North East to be precise. I'm not new to business, nor programming, but I'm looking for a co-founder for a Python related app related to brand monitoring.

I live in Southern New Hampshire (Nashua, NH), on the border with MA.

Anyone in the area looking for a hand, or at the very least someone to talk to about their project?

I'd be happy to talk to you about my project.

I'm based out of Seattle, but with the magic of the internet, I don't think that would be a big problem.

Would you be available to talk on Skype sometime?

We're a team of 2 applying to YC and willing to bring in a third founder. E-mail in profile.

The email field in profiles is not publicly visible. You have to enter it in the "about" box.

we (2 of us) are interested in a third. diN0bot@bilumi.org

my partner just wrote up a neat survey that we're using to quickly understand prospectives. love to get feedback on that, too ;-)

EDIT: cambridge, MA closeness is a strong requirement from now until the end of december.

Anybody looking for collaborators in the Minneapolis area? (Email in profile)

would've said yes 9 months ago, then I moved to Boston :)

Any industrial designers out there?

I'm looking for a co-founder, or really a partner, because my company is already founded.

My product is currently in Beta and I should be releasing V1 soon.

You can download a copy of my product here:

http://www.transactor.com

If you are interested, please send mail to:

cofounder@transactor.com

I'm looking for an engineer who can help start work on V2 of the product.

The basic qualifications that I'm looking for are:

1. You have to be willing work with out pay (in return for a big chunk of equity), until we start generating revenue.

2. You have to be ready to make a firm commitment to the business.

3. You have to be a hacker.

4. You have to have at least 7, but preferable 10 years of programming experience. This doesn't mean you have to be 10 years out of school. If you are 23, just graduated from college, but have been programming since you were 13, that would qualify as 10 years of programming experience. This is pretty firm. I need to know that you will be able to work independently, at a high level, from the "get-go". If you can't hit the ground running then it isn't worth the cost of brining you on board.

5. Your experience should have some significance. If your 10 years of experience is really 1 year of experience 10 times over, then it doesn't count. It can be stuff you did on your own, or in school. However, you should have a list of impressive projects that demonstrate you are a top notch programmer. For example, in the course of getting a BS in Computer Science, I was able to accomplish the following projects:

a. I wrote a compiler

b. I converted a Java data flow analysis framework that worked over source, to also work over byte code

c. I wrote an implementation of the genetic algorithm

d. I wrote a library that added method injection (before and after methods) to C#

Plus I worked full time as a programmer while going to school full time.

6. You can't be a snob. If you are the type of person that thinks "all Windows Programmers are idiots", then I don't want you. Transactor makes tools for programmers. Windows programmers are the largest segment of the developer market.

7. You have to be interested in building a business, not in career advancement. You aren't going to get promoted. If we succeed, you may get wealthy. That has to be enough. If you want to build a business, so that when it grows you career will advance, and you can fulfill your life long dream of being a middle manager, I don't want you. Transactor eschews "career thinking".

8. I don't care where you work from. However, you have to be willing to fly out to Seattle to do an in-person technical interview.

Maybe you and jcrocholl should touch base with each other.

Also: what platform are you developing on? Is this a C# application?

Maybe, but I don't qualify for all points, especially number 6 -- I'm a terrible snob and will avoid the Windows platform whenever I can. Also, I don't see the need for Transactor Code Agent if you have good version control (e.g. git).

How often do you commit to your git repository?

Once a day? Once an hour? You are still vulnerable to any mistakes you make in between checkins. The laws of the universe state that the one time you forget to commit is the one time you will need access to be a backup. Or, you might revert the wrong change.

Also, even if you checked in every 5 minutes, the big question is why? You shouldn't have to.

Source control should be used for what it was meant for: managing change.

Backups should be simple, automatic, and easy. You shouldn't have to work to make sure you stuff is backed. It should just be handled for you.

That's what Code Agent does.

Okay, maybe I was wrong. I'm terrible at developer matchmaking :D

As an unrelated point, what's the startup scene look like in Seattle?

I'm looking to start-up and willing to relocate, but my wife hates San Fran, so unless I can find a SV suburb that's more midwestern (read: strip malls and yards) then I have to look elsewhere.

I appreciate the attempt. Thanks.

Seattle has a very healthy startup scene. If you want to you should come into Seattle and checkout Startpad (startpad.org). That's where I have my office at. They lease office space specifically to software startups. There's a good mixture of early stage and later stage companies there. The "biggest" company there is Rescue Time (I think they were funded by YC).

In any case it's in Pioneer Square, which is basically startup central. I'd be happy to show you around (and of course try to convince you to come work with me).

I would be interested to meet you for coffee and a Startpad tour.

Seattle is not really Midwestern. I would say, if anything, it's more European. I'd say it's a nice place to live. My wife and I are both from WI and we like it here.

Eh Midwestern was probably the wrong word to use. We're in Phoenix now, which is basically just urban sprawl. She dislikes SF because it seems too foreign compared to the thousands of strip malls and subdivisions we have here.

Yes. Code Agent is written in C#.

Is there any activity outside US? =)