Show HN: Find a co-hacker for your project
Here&#x27;s why I advise extreme caution when partnering up if you&#x27;re a programmer:<p>If you have a co-founder or co-hacker that goes postal, off on their own, acting shady, behaving badly, for whatever reason, you&#x27;re lost at sea.  If you don&#x27;t have a safety net or savings in place to catch you, you&#x27;re going to be living on the street. Thanks to someone else.<p>You can&#x27;t control other people. Your co-whatever could become a saboteur. The reasons why and how don&#x27;t matter, it&#x27;s about the ramification on your life and how deeply it reverberates.<p>If that&#x27;s the only thing you have going - your life is wrecked. You&#x27;re humiliated by being kicked out of what you created. You have to start over, with an added penalty to all your family you can&#x27;t support, your networking in tatters, and so on. Make no mistake - have a co-founder - you&#x27;re one person away from having collateral damage done to your life.<p>And they&#x27;ll probably make the company tank afterwards. The main reason a co-founder was there was to keep each other&#x27;s ideas&#x2F;egos&#x2F;visions&#x2F;whatever in-check. Without that personality mechanism in place, the business is rudderless.<p>So consider me a skeptic to this whole idea of sharing when I coded everything without safeguards in place for myself. That&#x27;s the <i>exact opposite</i> reason I run my own thing. This is the <i>one</i> thing where <i>I</i> get control.<p>If you got cash stashed away somehow, or other cash flow sources, you&#x27;re in a safer spot to take your chances with a co-founder and bounce back should stuff hit the fan.