Meeting Cofounders: 27 places to find them

that's fine, but once I've found a cofounder, how do I manage the project and be sure to split the profits without having to set up a company?

I saw your posting more carefully.
It is very important for me .

thank you very much

The online resources were really helpful, Thanks dude.

Some tips were really new to me. Thank you

Great one man! This is my first time here, and first comment as well!

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Good list. I am familar with cofounderslab.

You can spend years wasting precious time trying to find that elusive co-founder. Instead you can start building your tech startup while still looking by tapping into 50,000 skilled volunteers at https://skilledup.life - this is one of the reasons behind why I founded the company.

In 2008, after my co-founders left, I spent over 18 months trying to find a technical co-founder while somehow keeping the lights on. What a waste! Wish I had a solution like SkilledUp Life then.

Solo founders with teams are no longer ignored.

Really a good piece. I appreciate that it's not the same copy paste every other group is putting out there for finding a cofounder. Actually helped me for once, thanks!

Good link! thank's

Hey,

Anyone on the thread interested in finding a business partner to join a venture in the quantitative finance/machine learning space? If so, let's connect!

Cofounderslab.com in my experience is almost scam-like.

They charge $150 a year and tell you that you can search for other cofounders and have access to all their courses and other offerings as a premium user.

However, after paying I had no access to any of their other offerings e.g. courses nor the ability to search easily for cofounders. You only get to search a city at a time (in this day and age, I'm sorry but that's a no-go!) and it shows me having several people reaching out to me but no way to even view their messages or reply.

They also do not respond to any inquiries about a refund or platform help. I have attempted contact on LinkedIn, Facebook page (through messenger), and on cofounderslab.com's chat feature to no avail!

Thanks James, looks like a great list. Can't wait to dig into it to find my other half of what's gonna turn into major money and good fun!

great resource. thanks

great list!!

but, "F6S lets you connect with accelerators, funds, investors — you name it."

Please name the other groups. In particular, how to access the 4mil actual users? because whenever I look at f6s I simply cannot find a way to reach the full community.

super helpful thank u!

Also, anyone looking for a marketeer? I'm searching for a new project...can't publish my post just yet (just joined here).

Projects I'm keen on:

• AI projects related to career, HR, recruitment, horoscopes / WooWoo- new age - spiritual, pets, marketing to seniors
• Possibly language learning, adult, dating, crypto, cbd,
• Products or services that are ideally sold to the US / UK / AUS / CAN markets, Western Europe
• B2B or B2C
• Ideally incorporated in the UK or US
• If your project is non of the above, still reach out, I'm completely open at the moment!

We could add Peersuite to this list: https://www.peersuit.com/

@IndieJames
I am Tamás, one of the founders of Pozi.io
I really like the article. Thank you for mentioning. Pozi.io is already suitable for organizing Hackathons and demodays.

https://www.founderio.com/ is great if you are looking for a German speaking co-founder.
I also use https://www.startus.cc/people to search for potential co-founders and then write to them on LinkedIn

Awesome list, thanks.

Great list. I and my cof are looking for a third cof or a very promising core team member who could either do the BD/ sales or Ops. We are flexi cos we would divide the work. Currently, Im doing BD and everything whereas my cof is doing tech but we end up doing everything. Haha! Im trying friends, ex colleagues- let's see- timing is a thing too

Tonne of Value!!! GREAT POST! Currently checking out F6S :)

This is a great list just what i needed

I think we can also add YC's startupschool.org as CoFounder matching.

Add this: https://www.startupschool.org/cofounder_matching

Here's my story - I wanted to build a chrome extension for Airbnb. I looked in the chrome store to see who had built other extensions for Airbnb. I cold emailed a few of them and was able to find a great technical co-founder much faster than anticipated! We've never met in person, but working together has been smooth sailing.

This is a fantastic post. I was waiting for such a list for a long time.

Found some great people on Twitter and Reddit - nice list man!

Great post @IndieJames

I met my two co-founders through LinkedIn. You got to hustle but it works! Trust in the process >:)

YC cofounder matching is the best no comment. If you sort people well the quality of people and the platform is very good.

Never mix Family members with business... it never ends well

I have used most of these at one point or another - based on my experience - I would say starthawk.io (at least in 2019-2021) was one of the few to have a lot of good cofounding talent (pre-funding/pre-revenue) mindset with real results. It seems like it's becoming more general community and less co-founder focused recently.

There is also https://www.startupschool.org/cofounder-matching which again focuses exclusively on co-founders without the other noise.

Of course indie hackers is good as well.

I am a professional developer aiming to build project management solution based on Scrum. I know I have all what it take to start the project but what I am missing is a partner who take care of Marketing, business grow, strategy... etc.
Thank you for sharing this article.
I hope I'll be able to find what I'm searching for.

Great list! I would probably add the Small Business Administration to this list. They're a great resource to provide guidance, workshops, and knowledge for anyone going through the startup process (as well as growth).

Thanks for sharing

@IndieJames could you have a closer look at founderio.com? I think it's worth a mention in the "online" part of the list. Definitely better than Founders Nation :D

Great list! Currently, I am looking for a growth marketer co-founder so this is very helpful. Thank you

Thank you this information. love the list of Slack communities!

Wow! Fantastic post, all the information in place. Thank you✌️

I would add definitely add/endorse YCombinator's co founder matching tool. it's very very good. It's still raw in terms of functionality but I've meet a ton of great potential cofounders from all over the world

Solid list!

I've used some of the sources for meeting new cofounders, but I found most pretty complicated.
So last week I've built a simple database of cofounders right here: https://partnerz.vercel.app/ - no account necessary, plain searchable info

Curious what you think about it!

Informative!

Damn man - you put in the work and greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Bootstrapper Breakfasts have seen a number of teams form from conversations that started at a breakfast. See https://bootstrappersbreakfast.com/2021/03/23/roundup-of-events-for-bootstrappers-in-april-2021/ for a list of April online meetings that are no charge and open to entrepreneurs. IndieHackers Welcome.

Thats perfect !

Great list of resources for finding a cofounder! Thanks for sharing such specific and actionable options.

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Hi there! Two great founders I know, Hazim and Carin are building CoffeeSpace , a Tinder/Hinge-like app that makes the process much easier (I’m one of their early users!).Feel free to check it out below and head over if you are looking for a cofounder/ exploring ideas.

Great list! Thanks for sharing!

How about Hacker Houses? I did a preliminary google search and got some interesting results. Seems like a good way to find other builders.

Really useful information! Thank you for sharing this!

Hello James,

Really useful information! Thank you for sharing this!

Thank you for sharing. This is great

This is such a great resource...thank you for sharing this!

Awesome list. Thank you 👍

Thanks for sharing, I've learned a lot .

Interesting, been looking for strategic partner for VC firm :)

Very Insightful post. I've been looking for a co-founder for awhile and this post gave me a lot of info to now find one. Thanks a lot. Much love.

Hola! estamos creando una fintech, estamos en etapa de investigacion.
Buscamos personas para intercambiar ideas.
algien quiere participar?

Thank you so much for this insightful post. Being a solo founder without a tech background is challenging, it's encouraging to see there's a number of avenues worth exploring. I did check out CoFounders Lab as one of my first destinations but found the site difficult to even access as my sign-up process kept hanging so i eventually gave up! Has anyone else had problems with this one in particular?

Exactly what I was looking for, cheers! Surely one these places will yield results.

This is a great piece.

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We already have some versions of our product but we want to expand to SAAS due to demand

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StartupSchool Y combinator is also one of the platforms, where you can find co-founders

Hey! I need your help - I am thinking of creating an app where developers can meet UI/UX designers and become technical co-founders. I believe that an engineer and a designer can be a perfect team when creating MVPs, covering each other's weaknesses. The platform would be meant for side hustlers, building Saas businesses. There are already a few platforms that help to find a co-founder, but most of those are broad and fail to display technical parts. I hope to solve this problem by asking designers to promote their wireframes/prototypes (not only the description), so the engineers who are looking for the next thing to build can already see if they like the way the designer is thinking, before approaching them. I am trying to figure out if there is a demand for such a thing, please share your thoughts! Would you use it?

This is very helpful, thanks brother

This is great! Thank you. I wish those Techstars Startup Weekends were in the Florida area.

Wow thanks for helping man

great m thanks , it helps me a lot

Wow, thanks for that great article. I haven't found any other blog like this!

Very good page, I hope to find a few partners who share the same interests

Some great tips, thanks! Anyone ever struggle with not knowing how to approach the subject with potential co-founders? Maybe it's just me...

Great article.

Great resource. I'll certainly be using it for my search.

No. 28 - The Market. Share your project with the world (use a no-code MVP if you're looking for a tech co-founder) and cool people who believe in your project could gather around you - potential co-founders too.

Awesome

Thank you very much for the list, James.

Anyone know of any UK based meetups happening in 2023?

This is really great, thanks!

I am gonna try those now. thanks

Loved this post, James!

I loved this article. Kudos!

phenomenal article. thanks for posting!

Super article thanks. I bookmarked it.

First of all, thank you for this post. It has been very useful for me.

Nice bookmarked it!

Thanks for the list

Great tips, I found my cofounder by asking my old-time friend if he wants to build something together.

Thanks 🙏 @IndieJames

Great List, Thank you

Meet cofounders online on Githired: https://bit.ly/githired_devs
You can search for projects similar to yours on Github, and reach out to the project's developers via Githired. These devs will bring their passion, failures, & successes to your partnership!

Was in need for something like this to grow my business. Thanks James.

This post could be renamed "Fantastic Cofounders, and Where to Find Them". Anyway, great post! Thank you

I have a question about meeting cofounders online, which I've been debating with friends. At what stage would you feel comfortable sharing your startup idea with a stranger online? I've reached the conclusion that your startup idea has to get out into the world via marketing at some point, but the question is at what point is best? Would you feel comfortable without any product built, for example, to share your idea with a cofounder online? Or do you think having an MVP ready is a minimal requirement?

I would suggest checking https://uiworks.io before finding co-founder for your mobile app. UiWorks.io provide UI code at fix price and lifetime support for UI bug fixes so mobile app developer has to develop logical and technical issue in the app without worrying about the designs. Outsourcing UI code saves 30-40% of development cost and effort. Everything which comes under UI can be handle by UiWorks at $200 a screen including localisations, support all possible screen sizes, animations, dark/light mode, accessibility support.

Dropping my co-founder matching startup here too: https://tertle.io 🐢🚀

The most thoroughly compiled article on finding co-founders! Thanks

Thank you so much! I was so exhausted from looking for cofounders but now I think it will be more efficient!

Has anyone had success finding a technical cofounder on a site like this? I understand manually finding someone on Reddit, Slack, Discord, LinkedIn, etc. but for the other website I just feel like the person who signed up looking for a cofounder isn't the person you're looking for but hopefully I'm wrong and it works for people?

This article has become my bible for finding a cofounder...thanks!!

Very helpful article. Some steps in there I didn't even know I had to take.

Great list! I would only add https://joinef.com

Valuable tips, thank you for sharing

Thanks for the resources! I've been looking for a team of devs and leaders to connect with to rehash my current NFP organization. It's been around for 10 years and helped 1000's of people with their mental health, but COVID happened and we had to close our studio. We are a unique non profit organization offering free or by donation yoga to marginalized communities and on our best year we've had just over $250k in revenue, which is impressive for me based on my lack of secondary education. The vision and creative ideas are all here, I've just been lacking the support. So grateful to have stumbled along this website, because I won't give up on our mission after witnessing how many people's mental health have been improved or saved by meditation and mindfulness.

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Great post!

Great resources

Really a great source of information. keep it up

This is great. Thank you for sharing. Also seeing Building in Public as the only non hyperlinked item - it seems that we need a website for that industry ;)

Im Balraj a Business and product developer and also the founder of the digitlers .
beside of these like I'm working on one side project for that I'm looking for tech co founder for that product , if you are interested in to work on side project as I'm looking for co founder . if so , would love to connect and chat futher over call so can we connect .

Thanks for the tips. Indeed. the list is extensive. One problem you usually find though is that in incubators, conferences and sector events everyone has its own idea or is working already for someone else idea's. I have not meet many persons looking for a project is those contexts. Any idea?

Thanks for posting this, very useful :)

A great listicle. Thx

thanks for this!

Thanks very much for this post! I discovered new places I had not heard about before.
I have actually built a web app in this same ecosystem of entrepreneurship networking.
It is a tinder-like app where founders post their project and other entrepreneurs post their profiles and skills, and based on their research filters, our algorithms will display the appropriate projects/profiles to swipe.

https://www.teamup-entrepreneurs.com/

@IndieJames I propose a service for networks to use my app. Would you like to discuss it?

Thanks for the great article. Segmenting by industry would also be a helpful tool within a lot of these sites which still doesn't seem to feature very much.

YCombinator, recently launched a co founder matching application as part of their ‘Startup school” Startup School - The Best Online Resource for Founders.

https://startupschool.org/

It’s like a dating app for founders of all different backgrounds, and from around the world. You create a profile and you’re matched with other founders based on: time zone, geography, skills, time commitment, industry, and role.

It’s by far one of the best tools and communities for founders.

Many top level serial entrepreneurs, as well as recent FAANG engineers, CS students from top schools are all using the tool.

A few of them go on to apply to the accelerator and receive investment.

I’ve used the tool personally, and I’ve meet many amazing founders, from all over the world. I’ve made new friends, and I’ve connected with co founders that I’m currently working with.

Very useful list, thanks for this. Only concern is that if you've not used some of these platforms much, it takes a while to get the right to post, which may clash with some of our ambitious timings to find a biz partner -same seems to apply here. sigh
Anyone got any shortcuts? :)

Thanks for the list.

Super useful post. Thank you for sharing. I wanna explore more how to find a co-founder to DOJO+

Save my time researching

Wow, this is cool

you should add suplift.io to the list!

This is a great comprehensive list to get started.

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