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Michael Seibel

Y Combinator Co-founder Matching - YC’s free online platform to help you find your co-founder

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Find a high-quality co-founder on our platform of 4500 founders. Tell us about yourself and your preferences and we’ll show you profiles of your ideal candidates. If there’s mutual interest, we match the two of you.

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Catheryn Li
Maker
Hi Product Hunt! I'm Cat, I'm a PM/engineer here at YC. I'm super excited to announce our co-founder matching platform! Finding the right co-founder is both crucial to your startup's success and often very challenging. 25% of our very own Startup School aspiring founders cite not having a co-founder as a main blocker to their startup's progress. We built our platform to try and tackle this problem. Our solution is still experimental and we expect to iterate a lot. But there are some early signs of success! To date, we've made 9000 matches across 4500 founders, and 3 companies who met through our platform got accepted into the YC Summer 2021 batch! If you or anyone you know is looking for a co-founder, come check it out! Our team is here to answer any questions and we’d love to hear your feedback.
Sage Will
Hi @catheryn Great product, May I have your email . I have something I would like to talk to you about regarding your project. Alternatively you can email me splashview24@gmail.com.
Nihal Bhushan
@catheryn The idea looks amazing. Congratulations on your launch.
Mert Aktas
How can this be free? I personally owe YC a lot. Even if we've never been accepted, all the content & Startup School alone taught me a lot. I'll make sure to spread the news 🤩
Yucel F. Sahan
@mert_aktas I agree Mert, Startup School community is one of the best places to build a matching platform around it. YC did it again :)
Kyle Corbitt
Maker
@mert_aktas I'm so happy to hear that Startup School has helped you! Hopefully our co-founder matching platform can have an equally large impact in the lives of many founders. Our business model on the SUS side is pretty simple: build awesome products for founders, and trust that some percentage of them will choose to apply to YC's core program. About 44% of YC's latest batch of companies went through Startup School, so this model works pretty well. And in fact, **3** companies from the latest batch met each other through the co-founder matching beta specifically!
Mert Aktas
@kyle_corbitt amazing, 44% is PRETTY high percentage! but it totally makes sense because the content is always top-notch.
Rob Works
I've seen similar platforms before, but I think having founders gather around the same school of though is the actual game changer here. Won't be surprised to see some great companies rising in the next years, with founders who've met here. It's really great to see a new platforms like this are being built, especially by the YC team. Exciting times ahead! 👏
Kyle Corbitt
Maker
@robertgavriles1 yes, the shared "cultural context" around YC/Startup School's startup playbook/philosophy is key to communicating clearly and starting these relationships off on the right foot. That's exactly why we chose to build this as part of Startup School, instead of as a standalone product.
Much needed thing as Indie Hackers constantly asks for finding co-founders. Hopefully, it will solve this problem.
Sasha Briu
I like that your product speeds up the whole process of building teams.
Alex Chen
Tackles one of the most important factors in start up success — and with YC's existing network, this is the perfect springboard with which to go off of! Overall, I love the experience, and if I was actively seeking I'd definitely use the product. Some small feedback: overall, the cost to get into the product is pretty high (though I understand the motivation to get people to fill out the info needed to get matched, and increase the number of profiles in the network). Perhaps a less intimidating format to get the info, think typeform, would bring more folks in. Super excited to see where this goes! Congrats @catheryn and @corbtt for the great work.
Catheryn Li
Maker
@corbtt @alex_chen4 Thank you so much for the support and great feedback! Totally agree, the sign-up flow currently takes a long time. Hard to balance vs getting enough information to make great matches but we will try to improve that!
Kyle Corbitt
Maker
@alex_chen4 yes, the onboarding takes a lot of time currently, and we're definitely losing a lot of folks in the funnel as a result. On the other hand, having a complete picture of your background, interests and future plans is really important to give prospective co-founders an idea of whether there's a possible fit. It's a tough balance.
Andrew 💥
Great product - met a bunch of extremely interesting people on it that I would not meet elsewhere 😳 Cool to see it evolve so fast - what next features do you have in mind next?
Kyle Corbitt
Maker
@the_andriy_bond right now we're building support for tracking trial projects with prospective co-founders, adding more facets and filters to profiles and improving the matching algorithm. Longer term we have more ambitious plans, of course. :)
Alex Briukhovetskyi
Looks cool. Like Tinder for co-founders) Where have you been before? So many ideas would come to life!
Rahul Nair
This is a useful app, especially for the sales and marketing teams. Congrats on your launch. Best of luck.
Zoya Matin
Wait, what?! This is great!
Kyril Kulikov
I tried the beta a couple of months ago, this is a great tool for early-stage startups!
Catheryn Li
Maker
@kyrilku Thanks for being an early user! Please let us know how we can improve the experience for you!
Joseph Abraham
This is awesome @catheryn @mwseibel and @corbtt :) 🙌🏼 May the founders tribe increase!!!
orhun pinar
In the maçın street its realy diffucult to find co-founder, this app. make it easy. Thank you
Mehakdeep Kaur
Super useful, great work!
Timothy Luong
Finding the right co-founder is an incredibly difficult and important part of the startup journey, glad YC is providing resources to help tackle this problem. Congrats all!
Juan Manuel Muñoz
Super useful, thanks!
RentalAgent.io
Good!
Alexey Shashkov
Cool platform!
Ruben Wolff
Congrats YC team! What results or feedback did you receive from these first 9000 matches? And how did it work?
Kyle
Seems like the only way to make a platform like this work is if it's created by a company like YC. It looks promising!!