Show HN: Redsand.io – Find partners for software projects(redsand.io)
redsand.io
Show HN: Redsand.io – Find partners for software projects
https://redsand.io/
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Hi. Thanks for commenting. I am a senior at Tufts University, studying computer science. You bring up a great point about privacy but I created the website out of my love for building products. I hate the LinkedIn recruiter spam as much as anybody.
See also reddit programming buddies [0], though it's usually beginners
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingBuddies/
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingBuddies/
We are college students who got tired of having limited options for side project partners. So, we built a platform where you can discover and recruit team members to build software with.
redsand.io is a community of software developers who are open to collaboration. You can filter users by specific skills and find your ideal teammate.
redsand.io is a community of software developers who are open to collaboration. You can filter users by specific skills and find your ideal teammate.
This is a useful idea. I’m a junior studying CS and I can’t seem to find anyone in my cs department to collaborate on projects with.
This is cool! I've always wanted to find something like this that wasn't purely business students looking for someone to build their "startup idea". Hope it succeeds and gains traction!
Thanks for your comment. We are happy that you liked the idea. <3 "Hope it succeeds and gains traction!" - We hope it too.
Just a suggestion, but you really might want to use a more relevant or intuitive name, redsand.io has zero meaning to me and I'm sure that many would feel similarly.
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I always wonder how these platforms would sustain long term?
I mean, if this service would match existing companies with talents they seek, the obvious case is that the company might pay the platform for the match.
So this service would instead have to make the users pay for something like premium?
Or maybe handle the infrastructure for the matched talents for a fee?
I mean, if this service would match existing companies with talents they seek, the obvious case is that the company might pay the platform for the match.
So this service would instead have to make the users pay for something like premium?
Or maybe handle the infrastructure for the matched talents for a fee?
Nice. We do this on sideprojectors too.
https://www.sideprojectors.com
Our pitch is “find a co-founder / collaborator” for your project. We have had a number of matches but as people would know finding a right person to work with is always a challenge even if a platform exists to connect (still necessary!) good luck!
https://www.sideprojectors.com
Our pitch is “find a co-founder / collaborator” for your project. We have had a number of matches but as people would know finding a right person to work with is always a challenge even if a platform exists to connect (still necessary!) good luck!
I see most threads are actually looking for project idea instead of technical partners. Anyway bookmarked this site :)
I think https://findcollabs.com/ started along the same line and then shifted to be hackathon focused. Don't know what motivated the decision.
My challenge has to be to find developers who want to work in "grey space" where things are legal but might not be ethical with good money making potential.
I don’t think it’s so much the space but it’s a tough proposition to go into business with possibly shady characters who are willing to do unethical things.
For the right $$$, I’d be willing to build anything but I gotta make sure I get paid.
For the right $$$, I’d be willing to build anything but I gotta make sure I get paid.
In the last few months it seems like there have been a number of these targeted forums that might otherwise have been sub-sections of a larger site like Reddit. I can't escape the feeling that these could potentially turn into a sort of honey pot that will land my email address in the hands of a recruiting business or other advertiser. There is a lot of value to be derived from collecting an audience of skilled workers in a single discussion venue with ambiguous privacy rules.
I guess the barrier to leaving a known quantity like Reddit and signing up for a mom-and-pop forum like this feels a lot higher than it used to. I need to know more about who is running it, what their goals and roadmap are, and have some data to help me reason about the trade-offs of moving discussions there.