The ChallengeThe Challenge
Many of us are passionate about building companies or creating innovative projects, but finding the right partner or co-founder can be a real struggle. Traditional methods like hackathons or meetups are great but only sometimes connect us with our ideal collaborator.
Monthly Collaboration Posts!Monthly Collaboration Posts!
We’re introducing monthly collaboration posts on Stacker News! These posts will be a dedicated space for sharing what you’re building and discovering potential collaborators.
How It WorksHow It Works
- Monthly Posts: We’ll have a fixed schedule (like the 1st of each month or the first Monday) for consistency and familiarity.
- Community Engagement: We’ll boost these baby! So the entire Stacker News Community gets those ZAPS!
- Amplification through Social Channels: Let's together broadcast these opportunities far and wide.
What to Include in Your PostWhat to Include in Your Post
To streamline the process, we suggest the following template for your posts but feel free to adjust Stackers!:
- Name/Nym: [Your Name]
- Summary of What You’re Building: [Brief description of your project or idea or GitHub.]
- What Kind of Help Are You Looking For? (e.g., engineers, marketing, sales, legal, education, design, mentorship, advisors, venture capital, strategy, technical consulting.)
- Purpose: Is this for fun, or are you aiming to build a Bitcoin business?
- How to Contact You: [Your preferred contact method]
Let’s Build Together!Let’s Build Together!
This is an initiative that I hold dear to my heart. We have a strong collaboration environment at PlebLab, which I want to bring to the Stacker News community. We’re open to suggestions and excited to see how this idea evolves! I will also bring this up on Stacker News Live every first week of the month to get the most visibility for all the builders who participate, and try my best to facilitate an introduction or collaborator.
Ready to find your next co-founder or Building Partner? Post in the Monthly Collaboration thread, and let’s make it happen!
🤘⚡- @Car
Name/Nym: Justin
Summary of What You’re Building: Shocknet, a web-first infrastructure stack for Lightning-Nostr Apps: Lightning.Video | ShockWallet.app | https://github.com/shocknet/Lightning.Pub
What Kind of Help Are You Looking For? We're a technical team and could use help interfacing with users, some combination of marketing-sales-education-community. We'll also consider Full Product Owners in a b2b/whitelabeling context.
Purpose: We've received modest venture funding and are looking to become sustainable so we can continue on to onboard the planet.
How to Contact You: t.me/justin_shocknet
Really like what you’re building. Will no doubt message later
Idea to help me build (project not off the ground):
What Kind of Help Are You Looking For?
dev. Someone who leans more to back-end.Name/Nym: David (project name TBC) Contact Me:
npub1xfp0eu86raryz2sw53f9qnxdujm8z73c5s55d3vzkae06gz5p0dsxae7anHave you seen this? We are doing subscriptions on lightning already using NWC
https://blog.mutinywallet.com/solving-subscriptions-on-bitcoin-one-zap-at-a-time/
Seems I have more tinkering to do.
More details here: #141924
this made my day lol
Name/Nym: MK / Pakoko Summary of What You’re Building: BTC mining off curtailed renewable assets -> local community support + remote community micro-grid projects What Kind of Help Are You Looking For? Need a technical lead or operations, essentially building specialized crypto-mines. If you're interested in helping or know someone who might be, feel free to reach out. Purpose: Looking to change the BTC mining game, develop the community/social aspect, all while solving a decades-long energy problem (Ontario/IESO). The goal is to recycle wasted clean power back into communities & particularly support underserved regions. How to Contact You: mkhan787@uwo.ca
Name/Nym: n
Summary of What You’re Building:
nQuiz- a Quiz platform, powered by Nostr and Bitcoin. There are 7 levels, a review process (for quality control), a reputation system, and an algorithm so that questions get harder as you play. We have 9 sites right now, with plans to launch another three soon.What Kind of Help Are You Looking For? We're a small team, completely bootstrapped, mainly focused on bugfixing and feature development. We need help with so many things!
Purpose: We'd like to build something that rewards creators whilst also being commercially viable from a running cost perspective - eg from 402-sat signup fees or optional sidebox-advertising.
How to Contact You:
Name/Nym: flashsats
Summary of What You’re Building: A semi-non-custodial Lightning Wallet. This wallet will use hosted channels, but the funding transaction for the hosted channel can be verified either on-chain or through a proof of asset protocol. Users can opt to upgrade their hosted channels to private channels later on.
What Kind of Help Are You Looking For:
Purpose: I am building a Bitcoin business.
How to Contact You: https://twitter.com/1sats_ln
Wonderful, Stacker News evolving 🙌
https://m.stacker.news/6723
Name/Nym: Car
Summary of What You’re Building: Outside of PlebLab I work on @ThrillerBitcoin
What Kind of Help Are You Looking For? Looking for more writers and someone who could book guests for my podcasts every week.
Purpose: Is this for fun, or are you aiming to build a Bitcoin business? It's a media company that I started in 2021 but haven't put the amount of effort I would have liked too.
How to Contact You:
https://www.thrillerbitcoin.com/contact/
nice nice nice nice love thriller
Name/Nym: Misha
Summary of What You’re Building: Global Remittances app, powered by LN, with fiat on & offramps
What Kind of Help Are You Looking For? Round 1: Venture capital, advisors Round 2: Legal, design Round 3: Marketing, more fullstack engineers
Purpose: Build a Bitcoin business - tap into the existing fin networks & create real value + boost adoption
How to Contact You: On Telegram MishaD5
Name/Nym: luke
Summary of What You’re Building: https://doc.nostrassets.com https://mainnet.nostrassets.com https://twitter.com/NostrAssets
What Kind of Help Are You Looking For? Lightning Engineers and CMO(co-founder)
Purpose: Building the LightningFi ecosystem protocol based on Taproot Assets and Nostr
How to Contact You: luke@hephalabs.com
Royllo Name/Nym: Stéphane Traumat / straumat Summary of What You’re Building: A search engine annd explorer for Taproot Assets living on the Bitcoin blockchain / https://github.com/royllo/explorer / https://explorer.royllo.org What Kind of Help Are You Looking For: Well, for now, I'm looking to discucess with peoples to see what could be done. Purpose: I don't know yet but I would like it to become a business. How to Contact You: contact@royllo.org
Name/Nym: Orthzar
Summary of What You’re Building: A program/protocol that sends SSH traffic via Nostr relays as ephemeral events. The primary use-case is to allow you to remotely manage your servers without:
What Kind of Help Are You Looking For? A software engineer, ideally with a deep understanding of SSH. But a good understanding of cryptography and network protocols are probably enough. If you don't know anything about Nostr, you'll obviously have to learn that.
Purpose: This program/protocol would solve a non-trivial problem for me at my job, but I don't have time to work on it. But I know that many other people have to deal with the same problem. I have no idea how to make a business out of this program/protocol, especially since it would be open-source.
How to Contact You: For the time being, @ me on SN and we can SYN-ACK some private comms.
Nostr would add unnecessary overhead to that, but you could wrap in the elements you want (like the identity keys) with regular sockets. Tunneling SSH over WS is not entirely uncommon.
lol, you must be in the MSP world... my condolences
Nostr relays are like rendesvous points on the internet, which could replace the need for many centralized services, such as RMM services.
Tor imposes a lot of overhead, but SSH works well when connecting to a server via a Hidden Service, which involves multiple TLS tunnels.
This program/protocol would only use ephmeral events, so only a few NIPs need to be implemented.
Thankfully I am not really in the MSP world. But, a part of my job requires that I use an RMM service, which is very rough around the edges, due to some serious design flaws.
I have looked at all other options, and making a new protocol is the only option -- well, other than quitting this job.
I was just comparing to a more general socat-like server, but yea compared to Tor it'd still be a massive improvement and might have added benefits by being able to hide amongst other traffic on public infrastructure.
You probably wouldn't need any in that case as the relay will just dump them, your protocol would just be an application that uses nip01 as it defines kind ranges for ephemeral events... then yours is just an application with a specific kind, there's a few like that including ours: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips#event-kinds
Nym
0xB10C
Summary of What You’re building:
A FOSS Bitcoin Core based passive P2P networking tool called peer-observer. It hooks into tracepoint's in Bitcoin Core to extract, e.g., P2P messages sent and received, connections opened, closed, evicted, … The nodes are essentially well-behaving honey-pots with a lot of monitoring.
This is all already implemented and running. However, don't have a public demo of it at the moment. Happy to share something with interested people. I currently have 10 nodes running, dispersed around the globe.
What Kind of Help Are You Looking For?
Looking for someone interested in Bitcoin P2P network level attacks that wants to build some sort of (real-time) anomaly detection with the data the tool is producing. For example, detection of inbound connection flooder's like https://b10c.me/observations/06-linkinglion/.
The project is mainly written in Rust, but I've taken care that Python scripts should work too. The infrastructure is Nix+NixOS.
Purpose
For fun and to make the Bitcoin network more secure. Not for profit. I have a grant to work on this (and more). I can't pay you for the work, though you might find someone else willing to give you a grant or similar for the work (I can help, but no promises!).
How to Contact You
Comment below, or send me a DM / email. You'll find ways to contact me on b10c.me.
Neat..!! Here we go:
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Summary of What You’re Building:
What Kind of Help Are You Looking For?
Purpose:
How to Contact You:
Name/Nym: Rico
Summary of What You’re Building: Design-as-a-service for web 3 projects. We've worked with venture backed-projects on product design, web design, and branding.
What Kind of Help Are You Looking For?: Looking to connect with Projects in need of Design help.
Purpose: We want to help you launch faster and grow farther by taking on all your design needs.
How to Contact You: Email: rico@hofstudio.xyz
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/hof_studio
Looking forward to connect with you all!
This is awesome to see the space evolving and I’ll spread the word. I’m not at a place in my life & Bitcoin journey yet to be building items like this yet, but I look forward to the ideas and changes. I’ll send zaps for support though!
This is real digital gold right here 🏅 great idea
Nice! Good idea
I have something in the works, maybe I'll post it next month.
Good way to find collaborators
Fantastic idea! I'm excited to watch the unleashed synergy. I wish this started last year, when the bear market had everyone concentrating on building rather than staring at the price ticker.
This is an awesome idea.
BOOOOOM! Great news ⚡⚡⚡
Great initiative, LFG!
Do it!
Name/Nym: Anthony Summary of What You’re Building: Lots of projects. What Kind of Help Are You Looking For? Marketing/advertising Purpose: business building MVPs How to Contact You: https://t.me/chovy2https://profullstack.com - also doing fractional CTO
My ideas and views are too extreme for many people. I understand that, is fine. Masses are not ready yet for that kind of thing. So I will let others to do this. I am just watching and zapping.
Darthvader poetry pushing the boundaries 💀
LOL I didn't even realize I was doing poetry hahahaha
"sir, I think something strange is happening to the master" ... choke, "sorry master", choke, I fall on the ground dead. (the force is brightening in the background)
please stop sucking ass, we are exclusivley into ass milking.
Not too extreme for me, brother.
Share anyway. Fuck those that can't handle different ideas.
What an amazing idea! Let me gather what I have and really eager to find a co-builder and/co-founder...
That's great, I may use that too
https://m.stacker.news/11330
Name/Nym: Oliver, Founder & Software Engineer
Summary of What You’re Building: Jippi is an interactive education app for beginners to earn and learn about Bitcoin. With Jippi, users can complete bitesize learning modules called “Paths” and earn sats as a reward. Social connection is another important aspect of the app, as users can join an online community of Bitcoiners called a “Tribe”, where a Tribe head will facilitate regular audio conversations called “Gatherings”. These offer a more friendly and sociable way to learn about Bitcoin topics, where the audio conversations are saved, rather like a podcast, for later listening. Jippi is the simplest, most accessible way to start your Bitcoin journey. Our website is here: https://jippi.app/. You can find a demo of the app here: http://bit.ly/3HgKxqd.
What Kind of Help Are You Looking For?
I’m looking for a technical co-founder to join me on the project. Ideally, I’m looking for someone who:
Purpose:
My goal here is to grow Jippi LLC from a team of one with a prototype app, to a viable Bitcoin business with an app that has product market fit and revenue. This means building a founding team, refining the Jippi MVP to become feature-complete for launch, and going for funding. If you would like to join a project that already has an idea in place and a prototype app on TestFlight, then I would love to talk.
How to Contact You:
Email - oliver@jippi.app
Telegram - @its_olpo
Name Swiss Bitcoin Pay / Jimmy
Summary of What You’re Building https://m.stacker.news/10679 The easiest way to accept Bitcoin payments, used by 100+ businesses in 13+ countries (https://swiss-bitcoin-pay.ch / https://github.com/SwissBitcoinPay/app)
What Kind of Help Are You Looking For? Any help is very welcomed, including but not limited to: Software Developers, Security experts, Marketing, Sales, Legal, Education, Designers, ...)
Purpose Registered & licensed company in Switzerland.
How to Contact You Send some short introduction at hello@swiss-bitcoin-pay.ch
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