Show HN: I made a site for finding people to build cool tech projects with
Problem: I’ve found it hard/impossible to stay consistent on my side projects over the years with a pretty demanding full-time job and now kids. When the job picks up, it’s too easy to drop the side project for a day, which becomes a week, which becomes months. It’s also been somewhat demotivating to build alone on the side because you only have so much time and projects take so long. In college it was easier to find people to work with. Now, not so much.
Solution: I think it’ll be easier to stay motivated and consistent on projects when working with someone else. Enter Guild Origin: Post an idea you want to build or are building. Then if anyone is interested in the project, they’ll reach out and you can work on it together - it’s that simple! I’ve added a basic streak feature to help stay consistent and will continue adding features that incentivize consistency.
I know there are already several sites for finding startup cofounders, and I wanted to create something more laid back. Sometimes it doesn’t need to be a startup - it can just be a cool idea you want to build to learn a new skill or make the world better. Maybe it evolves into something more and maybe you just use it yourself - that’s totally fine!
TIA for any feedback or thoughts on my first side project “MVP”. Here’s to building awesome projects together!
> If I wanted to find people to work with, I'd go where those people are: one of the many more or less specialized social networks
Curious about this - do you have an example? If I want to build a site related to music and am looking for someone to build with on the technical side, are you saying you'd find a developer on a music forum? I think it depends on goals here.
> I wouldn't sign up to some empty website with one active user, which is the site's anonymous owner, who also happens to be a self-promoter on HN
Wait - isn't this the point of Show HN? You sound upset but I'm not even selling anything, just sharing what I built since as you said this is currently an "empty website" :) didn't realize anonymity was an issue..I'll have to see if this is a general concern.
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This is a free site I'm building in my free time so be gentle :)
>If I want to build a site related to music and am looking for someone to build with on the technical side, are you saying you'd find a developer on a music forum?
I'm gonna find a developer on an actual active social network where you can find developers, not on an empty site with no users. You don't have to take this personally, it's just the reality of things.