So Veeky Forums I'm in the process of starting a business that does IT consulting and I've already found my first customers. The problem is: I have no other co-founders and starting an IT business by myself rates somewhere between hard and impossible. I have thought about going to networking events but I live in the middle of no where and I can't move due to family which makes it hard for me to meet anyone.
My only options are to try find someone online but every website seems to be designed for normalfags to meet IRL and all I want to do is find another programmer like myself who wants to work remotely and be our own bosses. All the tools exist to do this like Slack, Git, Github, and Squiggle so I don't see collaboration being a huge problem.
You would think finding someone with some programming skills and spare time to join a promising business would be easy but this has turned out to be basically impossible. So far everyone I've found either doesn't have the time to commit to a business or is completely useless (like they can barely speak English or use a web browser kind of useless.)
What would you guys do if you were in my situation? I don't really want to burn out doing the work of 2 other people and nobody I know in real life has the time for this.
Isaac Lee
Bampu
Carter Rogers
I would be interested in being a co-founder, OP. I'm a programmer and CS student. What state are you from BTW?
Ryder Reed
Look no further OP, recent computer engineering grad here with lots of free time, I've used those collab tools and am looking for basically exactly the arrangement you're talking about. Shoot me an email: dustysesameseed@gmail.com
and grab this guy too. Nothing possibly could go wrong with sourcing your professional talent from Veeky Forums don't even worry about it
Lucas Lopez
That's the thing user -- you can't really run a business when you're a full time student. I'm not dismissing your skills as you're probably a better developer than myself. Just saying that it would be far too hard to do this on a part-time basis.
I admit its a bad idea but honestly -- there has been successful startups that were founded remotely. I know that we post a lot of stupid shit on Veeky Forums but surely people can be mature when it comes to making money. I'll email you later but I'm not sure if you're taking the piss out of me.
Ryan Smith
I am a database admin.
can you provide more info? maybe about the client
John Miller
Yeah, I was just joking with the last bit. The people I've met in person who used Veeky Forums were all competent and I'd have no problem working with.
Dominic Ross
I'm interested in being a co-founder. I've working in a software development job so I've got a ton of experience working with workflows and best practices. Send me an email here: demon.brick@gmail.com
Jaxon Martinez
Global labor arbitrage opportunity reporting in. If you need to outsource something we've got a team here.
mtafwihtostutp@outlook.com
Jason Mitchell
But user, how will you have time to work two jobs?
I worked with a guy a while back and he only worked part time while I did virtually everything. It's just not a good mix. The business doesn't go any where and the guy doing all the work gets burned out.
