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> We are very actively working on the co-founder matching site and would love to hear from people …

> We are very actively working on the co-founder matching site and would love to hear from people who have used it - what your experience was and how we could make it better. I used it a year and a few months ago. I'm a technical person with 10 years working in startups. I treated it the way I'd treat a job search etc. I matched with ~150 people. Talked to ~50 people. Got close/did trial project with 3. Did a deal with 1. Raised a VC pre-seed (similar process) and have had a wild journey since. Some learnings: * Met some really cool people, some amazing talent on the platform. * Know what you're looking for (e.g. complimentary skillset, company stage). Matching experience was key - didn't want too little (still making mistakes) but not too much (wanted an equal relationship, not a minor founder role). * Co-founding is a relationship IMO. 'Matching' is just dating, 'trail project' is moving in together, and 'cofounding' is marriage. Expect to argue about curtains. * It's hard to do and complex, this isn't handed on a plate. …

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Hello - I'm one of the folks at YC who work on YC's co-founder matching site (which if you aren't familiar with it, is at https://www.ycombinator.com/cofounder-matching ). It's not totally clear to me if OP is referring to that product specifically or something else, but I figured I would take the opportunity to get feedback anyway! We are very actively working on the co-founder matching site and would to hear from people who have used it - what their experiences were and how we could make it better. We've been running the site for about two years now, since we launched it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27750298 . Coincidentally, the idea actually grew out of open threads just like the ones OP suggested. We started by experimenting with those threads on HN and our Startup School forum, but nobody ever found an actual co-founder that way. So we decided to build it as an actual…

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Similar situation here, thanks for sharing your journey this last time around, I'll have to reuse some of those ideas myself.

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This is cool to hear (as another member of the CFM team!) We have admittedly less insight in this type of 'success' (we talk to all of the teams that end up in a YC batch) but if you stopped actively using the platform and paused your account, you would have told us you met someone you were working with.

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