Ask HN: Easier to Find Hackers in the Valley?
I'm from a community that is not very entrepreneurial focused and is also not really a tech/hacker hotbed. With that said myself and my business partner founded a company and began to build the infrastructure and put together the resources we'd need to start building.
This is probably going to kill this thread before it gets anywhere (But I hope not) as I've seen the reaction to non-technical founders (We're all just people, though) - my partner and I are not developers. I have done some coding in the past (Java/JSP) and can now make my way through a Rails project and modify code that is in front of me - I'm much stronger on the front end with HTML, HAML, Javascript (We use lots of jQuery) and CSS but there are people who are much better at all of these things than I am. We are generalists with skills across many disciplines and experts in a few key areas.
We've been successful in raising a small round of investment (low six figs), hiring one Rails developer, and are about to release our first product.
With all that said it has been next to impossible to find passionate developers who want to get involved with a startup and are team players in our community. By that I mean we've actively and passively looked for good developers that will mesh with the team for two years. Are other startups encountering the same issue? If not then there's something wrong with what we're doing or our location stinks - That seems like the easy answer, I'd rather find out how others have been successful.
If you've been successful in finding a couple good people to bring into your startup, how did you go about doing that?
As a side note, have any startups had success with remote developers?