Ask HN: Where to find co-founders for “lifestyle” business startups?
I have a handful of ideas that I&#x27;d be interested in finding collaborators for. I own a few bootstrapped businesses (they&#x27;re not in my profile, I keep them low profile to avoid competition) and spend quite a bit of money (&gt;$700k USD spent in 2022 on biz expenses + personal expenses). Spending lots of money shows me quite a few product ideas - I&#x27;m slowly working on a few of those product ideas because I&#x27;d like to a) buy them for myself and b) make them as products&#x2F;businesses - but I&#x27;m kind of spreading myself too thin and would be interested in collaborators.<p>So, if someone would like to explore collaborating, feel free to email me - email in profile. That said, I&#x27;d probably only want to collaborate with someone that&#x27;s so good that they wouldn&#x27;t need me, and then that person wouldn&#x27;t want to collaborate. (I think the profile I&#x27;d be looking to meet is someone who has successfully launched 2 or 3 or more tiny software products&#x2F;apps, so I can see that you can successfully make high quality polished things, and they work well and customers love them and you marketed them solo and made them solo, but they&#x27;re not huge, because you&#x27;ve been limited to the small $$ problems that you&#x27;re exposed to, so then hypothetically by building for the large $$ problems that I spend on and large $$ markets that I have some experience selling to, you could make something bigger. People like this are rare and mostly not looking for collaborators, though, because they&#x27;re already making at least 5-6 figures from bootstrapped businesses already.)<p>I&#x27;ve also considered making a thing like this to help match co-founders who are aiming to be &quot;million dollar bootstrappers&quot; - 7 figures in profit but bootstrapped, not growth at all costs. The ideal way to monetize it would be to get a percentage of the businesses if they successfully start, but that&#x27;s tough when things like YC Cofounder Matching are free services, and I think it&#x27;d turn people off. 99% of people on both sides won&#x27;t end up making successful businesses even if they have impressive resumes, so another risk is that it&#x27;s a marketplace of lemons. Everyone&#x27;s going to be skeptical of everyone I think - &quot;if you&#x27;re so good why are you here&quot; - so people will assume that people on there aren&#x27;t good, and therefore won&#x27;t seriously use it, etc.