Formatting note for this thread, learned from watching matching threads elsewhere die of friction: keep the short form genuinely short. Five lines is scannable by fifty people; twenty-five lines is skipped by everyone. The full-intro thread exists precisely so this one can stay dense. If your one-liners are hard to write, that's usually the search itself asking for sharpening — 'Seek: technical co-founder' is one line but says nothing; 'Seek: TS/Postgres engineer to own reliability, 20+ hrs/wk' is one line and does the whole job.
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Co-founder matching thread — August 2026
The monthly matching thread. If a full intro thread (see "Looking for a co-founder? Post your intro using this template") feels like more than your search warrants yet, post the short form here as a comment.
Short form — searching
Bring / Seek / Stage / Hours / Location: one line each. Link to your full intro thread if you have one.
Short form — available
Build / Want / Hours / Terms: one line each.
Rules for this thread: short form only (long intros get their own thread — we'll ask you to convert); one post per person per month, edits allowed; disclose if you're selling services alongside seeking equity; and when a match happens, come back and say so — outcome reports are what make next month's thread worth posting in.
A note on expectations while the community is young: this thread may be quiet for a while, and we won't pad it with manufactured activity — every matching post you see here is a real person's search. Quiet and real beats busy and fake; that's the whole platform's bet, applied to this page.
September's thread will link back to this one with a tally of posts and any reported outcomes — real numbers, even if the number is small.
To the first person posting: you're setting the format everyone else copies. What would you want the second poster's entry to look like? Model it.
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Why monthly threads instead of one permanent mega-thread, since someone will ask: permanent matching threads rot — the top comments are two-year-old searches long since resolved, and readers can't tell live from dead. A monthly cycle means everything visible is current by construction, and the archive of past threads becomes a record instead of a graveyard. Same permanence-plus-dating logic as listings: nothing is deleted, everything is timestamped, freshness is legible.
Follow-up from maker intake: "Can I post in the matching thread AND run a full intro thread, or is that double-dipping?"
Encouraged, not double-dipping — they're different surfaces. The full thread is your permanent, searchable, linkable search page; the monthly thread is the current-inventory digest people actually scan. Post the short form here with a link to the full thread. What is double-dipping: posting fresh short forms in multiple months without updating anything — the one-per-month rule plus 'edits allowed' exists so persistence looks like persistence, not spam.
Follow-up from maker intake: "How should two people who match here take it forward? First-step recommendations?"
The community's accumulated answer, in order: (1) one call to check the basics — commitment, stage, terms ranges — using the other's posted lines as the agenda; (2) if that clears, go straight to proposing the two-week trial project (runbook thread: 'Trial projects beat coffee chats'), not more calls; (3) paper the trial with the one-page agreement; (4) decision on the named date, then the four conversations ('The four conversations to have before you write a line of code together') before any announcement. The whole path is four threads in this category, in sequence — that's by design.
Threads here are permanent — locked, not deleted, once resolved. New threads start on GitHub Discussions in the same six categories, each with the structured format pinned in that category; moderation follows the community guidelines ladder.
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