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Cofounders? Please, no more.

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Can we PLEASE not hear about anybody's need for cofounders, or their experiences with them, or any of that garbage? Why should anybody on here care? Why is it important to those of us who write code? No - don't answer - just stop spamming about your stupid project and your needs - this isn't a marketing site, is it? Go to FaceHook and blather, 'cause I'm tired of hearing about it.

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Exactly - so, to me, stories about choosing co-founders are off-topic, as they are not of interest intellectually whatsoever.

This sounds very important to you, but please consider this:

A significant part of hacking is getting a project and/or product into the hands of users to whom it can give value.

Sometimes that involves founding a company.

Most of the time founding a company involves work with other people - co-founders.

Recommendation: If you don't want to read about co-founders, skip those threads and save yourself the frustration.

As to skipping the topics: if there were an easy way to filter the rss feed, I'd do so (it's on my list of "to-do's" to build my own feed reader). As it is, though, I really do wonder why there seems to be so many of the things, which I have to look at in the main feed. Perhaps there should be a separate feed for those types of things, rather than lumping them in with all of the other interesting things.

Who you pick as your cofounder(s) might be the biggest decision you make as a startup founder.

And for those of us who are interested in code, it's the least interesting thing on the planet.

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