One of my Partners is a technical Expert. If you want i can connect you both and you can pitch your idea. If it is interesting enough im sure he will be open for a Opportunity. I cant promise anything but maybe it is a good Opportunity.

hi, I am a founder of www.weridefinances.com

Would love to connect & share some insights.

info@weridefinances.com

You don’t need a cofounder necessarily. You can hire a dev to build a quick prototype or build one yourself with no code to validate your hypothesis. If you do want a cofounder, go where engineers hang out, both digitally and physically.

do you have a connection to linkedin?

You’d have better luck if you shared your strengths and weaknesses. Your post is the equivalent of a romantic asking someone where to find a spouse, with no context to what you’re bringing to the table.

Example, you could be a 12 year old with big dreams or a successful business owner with significant capital. Since it’s unclear, people are more likely to not bother - when you provide details that don’t make people guess at what you’re bringing, you tend to better find the people you’re looking for.

I see noone is answering your question directly. So here it is.

Use a freelancing service and have them do certain technical tasks. Strike up a conversation to check their communication skills. Check the quality of their work. If all good. Ask if they are interested.

I have two technical cofounders. As ppl rubbish the idea. I get three times as much work done. Faster to market. Solve problems I couldn’t have otherwise and you are right, investors want to see it.

I have worked in a few startups as a technical lead. I haven’t founded a company myself yet, but I have built out teams and products from scratch, and I am looking for a good idea to help get off the ground.

I think Reddit is good. My short personal background:
I’m a full-stack software engineer with experience working in companies (8 years), experience working in YC startup, and founding my startups. At the moment I’m running an existing PropTech construction management software startup.

My best source of leads for technical cofounders has been industry-specific job listing boards. Just make sure your listing is specific (i.e., no salary, vesting equity, etc) and expect to verify they understand the startup journey before spending too much time with an applicant.

Being in Australia, you should try Facebook groups like ‘Sydney Startups’ and other local startup groups.

So you have an idea and you want someone who actually knows how to build it?

So would the co-founder bring all the technical skills for free and hope it takes off? Sounds like you need to hire developers, not ask for co-founders

Have done it. No, not a matching thing.

Do all the work involved in a startup that you can do. Create the value:

• Website
• Newsletter
• Advisors
• Partners
• Demand

It’s VERY valid that a capable engineer is not going to just join you to try, doing all the heavy lifting they do on some promise that you will. What are you waiting on?? Do it.

You do NOT need the app, solution, product, to start. Whomever keeps saying that is either lying, an idiot, or selling you something.

When prove and establish demand for something, what you’re doing is creating value and de-risking something in which someone else wants to solve.

Doing that work, you create publicly, evidence that people want you to fix their problem … And that signals to that technical cofounder not just that you want to try, but that if they work with you, they’ll succeed in solving the problem they want to solve.

You don’t find that person through matching. Who has the time to meet all those people for a shot at a match?? You find that person because YOU have clearly established that you’re the person to work with on said thing – they’ll gravitate to you if you do it right/well.

Improve you Network

I’m part of 3 startups, all in technical capacity.

In two of those, the co-founders were ex-colleagues from previous jobs. I have known them for more than a decade prior to teaming up.

The third was after a year of acquaintance at a coworking space.

I have tried YC matchmaking for about 3 months, but it didn’t work for me.

let’s talk. I’m AI guy looking for serious business partner that I can work on the idea with.

I’m a tech co-founder in Australia. But not available, sorry. Here’s what I want to see in a startup before joining:

• validation. I want to see you’ve read The Mom Test and have spoken to 100 customers to get a really good grip on the problem you’re solving. Ideally you’ve got some customers already without having developed the tech.

• risk sharing. If I spend three months building the MVP, I’ll have lost out on the opportunity to make ~$50k in salary. How are you going to share that risk?

• true co-founder mindset. I’m not the nerd who pushes the nerd buttons to make the thing do what you want. I’m a co-founder who has complete control over the tech and product. Show me that you understand that.

Seen too many non-tech founders with wrong answers to all of these.