I have a programmer friend who wants to do a startup. We were high school friends and worked together as Microsoft Student Partners.
His skills are sufficient. Probably not good enough to make the next Twitter-based hedgefund on some crazy algorithm, but good enough for a solid business idea / marketplace concept / something innovative.
I have a strong preference towards ideas that require industry experience to exploit and solve a real pain point, but I am open to anything.
My offer to WSO is that you PM me your idea by this Friday. Support your concept with as much evidence as possible. If I think your concept has legitimacy, we'll instant message and I'll blast you with questions.
If your idea survives that, then I'll bring it to my programmer friend. I'll take a role in the startup as well since I'm the guy connecting everyone together.
For those worried, this is not an elaborate rouse to steal your idea. I'm a certified member biatches; my rep is too strong on WSO to tarnish on something like this hahaha. Check my post history; I hooked someone else on this site with another programmer friend of mine. I have an army of them.
The reason I'm doing this is because he has a unique window of free time I want to take advantage of. He's a genuinely innocent/pure dude (almost too much so) so I want to give him experience he needs. And because I don't have an idea myself that I feel will be worth his efforts (I have my own main venture I'm working primarily on right now that requires 200% of my time).
So...PM me if interested, and make it compelling.
It doesn't matter how you define his skills... What matters is whether he can do a project the way I need it to be done. I've me programers who are fantastic but can't code for shit when I need something done in a specific language, on a specific platform or in a specific way.
My question is what languages does he know? What cutting edge dev platforms does he know? Can he do scalar programing? What's his background? Just because you have a programer friend doesn't mean that his skill set is what I'm looking for. More info is needed before I even discuss what I'm looking for. Like everyone else here, I certainly don't want to waste your friend's time if he isn't capable of doing what I need. Get me a list of languages and dev platforms and we can consider having this discussion.
If he knows Ruby, I'd talk to him, but you won't get a job out of it.
If you are all really dedicated into making this with OP and his programmer..make sure you patent it either before you go to the next stage of the startup or while you are in the process of it. This way you maintain your intellectual property rights...not saying you will make the next Facebook or anything...just a word of advice so that everybody has a basis on which to credit themselves for their work.
1) A good programmer can learn any language quickly. Not really a huge issue. But he's using Java I think? My Ruby on Rail guys are working on my startup ;D hahahah. But for the record...C++/C, Java, Python, C#, ASP.net, SQl are the languges I know well
2) Compensation is in the form of you starting your own company? IDK, I'm supplying developer talent. This is kind of a super-rare moment considering the landscape - http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/15/stop-looking-for-a-technical-co-founde…
3) I'm not going to sell this. It's just something that's available, and I thought I'd like to empower someone in the community.
Anyways, I have him spending his time mentoring another coder-wannabee friend of mine (female jr. high kid) so we can foster her into a super prodigy bwahahaha. It's all about the pipeline right? :P
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