The idea:
A platform focused on helping people find collaborators for real projects.
Users would create profiles based on skills, interests, and what they want to build.
The platform would then help match them with relevant people, projects, or small groups.
Initial target users would probably be:
- college students
- beginner developers
- indie builders
- hackathon participants
- early-stage creators
My main question is this:
Is this actually a painful enough problem that people would adopt a new platform for it?
Right now people already use things like LinkedIn, Discord, Reddit, Telegram, college circles, hackathons, and private networks.
So I’m trying to figure out:
- Is finding collaborators a real pain point, or just a minor inconvenience?
- Why would people switch from existing platforms?
- What would make them come back after day 1?
- Does this kind of product usually die because of the cold-start problem?
- If you were testing this, what would be the smallest useful experiment before building anything?
I’m especially interested in opinions from people who have actually tried building projects, finding cofounders, joining hackathons, or launching communities.
Tear the idea apart if needed. I’d rather hear what’s wrong now than waste months building something nobody wants.