CoFoundMe
I gamified finding collaborators for your project/startup
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Hi guys I know ur time is valuable so I will keep this short. Ever since I was in uni I saw that its been difficult for people finding collaborators for your project/startup. Building something is easier than ever but finding collaborators has never been more difficult. so I interviewed 1083 users (yea i know thats a lot but i needed some validation hehe). Half of them did not hear about yc cofounder matching and other platforms and the ones who were using them still found it quite painful and exhausting and they got no one from there. I found that in most cases for my users the only way to network is to send a post or cold dm (90% of people dont even open their dms) and if u do post abt it , the post reaches everyone (ur friends, ur family, ur boss) which means it reaches no one. So I built a prototype (it was very bad) and the next thing I know there are 1027 users on the app and 394 collaborations made bahahahahahahahahha. The users loved the idea but also had some feedback which I tried to implement. So I am launching it here to gain some more valuable feedback from yall and improve the product. I built this myself so if you have any questions about anything the interviews, the users , any bugs please comment , yall can even roast me hehe. Thank you for your time, this came out to be pretty long I am sorry for that.
HN · launched Aug 18, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: matchmaking and finder platforms · 95 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▲ +36% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Marketplace
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes CoFoundMe is a standard swipe-to-match directory and collaboration web/mobile app built on conventional CRUD, auth, and database matching filters.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Finding collaborators is exhausting and time-consuming, Swiping is not an effective method for discovering collaborators
Feature requests: Search and filters for finding collaborators instead of swiping
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 315 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #262 of 316 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 293 days after the earliest competitor.
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