Comment by journal

It's the same reason why it's difficult for single men to find a partner. Life has become too individual. Didn't Rick Beato just talk about this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_DjmtR0Xls

I have a project. I'm willing to spend time to help someone learn how to contribute, and in return they'll gain experience they can use to earn money elsewhere. How do you find those people? It's the sales. We have saturated our tolerance for advertising. We just assume everyone who approaches us wants to sell us something right away.

When I started development on my accounting application, I decided to go around town and talk to businesses to figure out what features I should add. I had nothing to sell, I just wanted to talk to people about my own personal initiative. Never mind everyone on the internet screaming that an ERP system can't be done by a single person. No one wants to talk to me, no one cares.

And you all know the best of us are introverts because we focus on the problem and not the sale.

YCombinator: learn to do sales on your own, don't look for sales oriented co-founder. Seriously? Every day it's getting harder and harder to do sales. It's not even sales but social engineering. You hear words like "funnels" and "CPA".

I reached out to my network, I know about 7 people capable of helping me. None had the drive to lift a finger cause they're all too comfortable with their day jobs. I don't blame them, I would be too if I was being paid $100k to change background color of buttons every two weeks.

Yes, what I'm building is of commercial nature, but I have other interests too, like creating mesh network with ESP32 which to me has no commercial value and would be done purely for fun. I'm sure there's people with similar interest exist, but they're being kept guard by social media companies that work against collective initiative. Cause if they didn't, it would be too easy for people to find what they're looking for.

I have interview on 24th. If I get the job the progress on my project stops. I'm 1/4 ways through to production, that's three more years of development. If I had few people to help me, we could complete it in six months and end up with jobs maintaining it.

Like many people pointed out - time is precious, "you couldn't even pay me to do it", "I have a family".

So you have to find people just at the right time who have overlapping free time.

I've run out of money, gotta go back to work.

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