How to find like-minded people for a project or join a startup?

Question

Startups

Hello. I have been a Linux system administrator for 8 years now, and have been doing DevOps practices and monitoring systems for the last three years. I came to the conclusion that I already want to do something of my own, start something new, without being tied to the office. Among my acquaintances, there are no those who would support me - everyone wants stability and does not want to change something, office work suits them quite well. Now I'm thinking - where can I find like-minded people who want to start something of their own, or join a ready-made startup? Please advise how and where to look.

Answer 1

I want to do something of my own, start something new, without being tied to the office

You can taxi (yesterday I went with a taxi driver who took out a mortgage, which means they pay well). You can find a place in the market and trade anything.

among my acquaintances there are no those who would support me - everyone wants stability and does not want to change something, office work suits them quite well

they are NOT satisfied with office work, it’s just that it’s probably funny for them to hear stories from a simple system administrator about a bright communist future that will certainly come if you start making another failed and useless project in IT without having the most important thing - funding, which in modern realities should be in the millions of rubles.

where to find like-minded people

no fools. Those who wanted their own project - they washed it down a long time ago, regardless of whether it turned out to be a failure or not.

there is no funding, but there is a fairly rich stock of knowledge and skills

every second experienced IT specialist has a rich stock of knowledge and skills. You won't get far with this.

Answer 2

1) Despite the opinion that there should be several founders, most successful companies were created by one owner with the involvement of hired employees.
2) Approximately 75% of all companies where there were several founders were created by former employees of a company (ie colleagues at work), or fellow students.
3) Investors most often want to see several founders in order to reduce the likelihood that a person will burn out and leave the company (when there are several, now the likelihood is that one will leave and the other will stay). But this is solely for the sake of reducing the risk for the investor.
4) There is no competent investment market in the Russian Federation, so the likelihood that the company will shoot and you will get something there is extremely small.
5) The very idea that you will work in some company from the start for conditionally 5 years and see how it "came out to people", and you will be given something for loyalty and hemorrhoids - does not work. They will downvote cold-bloodedly when you become uncomfortable or ineffective. Moreover, both in the Russian Federation and the United States, it is customary to do so.
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In other words, you shouldn't entertain yourself with the thought that you will join some startup there and earn a lot of dough. If you want money, take all the risks and do everything yourself. You can't do it yourself, either learn the stack, which is required, or buy people's time.

Answer 3

borrow money and like-minded people will catch up
exactly for as long as they have enough

Answer 4

It seems to me that your main risk is in "something":
If you find this "something", start doing it, and people really need it, then financing will not be a problem - you will either start to receive income from this, or you will be able to attract investments.
But looking for people on "something" seems too risky.

Answer 5

Look for incubators, accelerators, competitions, where they gather specialists of different profiles and invite them to join teams. Like, for example, Digital Breakthrough (it's too late to sign up) is a copy of a fairly successful recipe.

Answer 6

There are a lot of enthusiasts on gamedev resources (most often at the level of schoolchildren) looking for people in teams for their mega hits.
If there are no ideas of your own, you can join them. Of course, the sense of this is unlikely to come out, but since there are no ideas of their own, but there is regret - that's it. At the same time, you will understand how these teams of enthusiasts live (and die).

Answer 7

Look how your specialized knowledge might be needed by startup X? It won't work for fulltime, but it's quite possible to set it up once and support it.
Here's an idea for a startup - to make a service for startups to deploy a typical infrastructure for them and support it for some pennies. Host a hundred startups like this - there will be a pretty penny.
Look for clients in accelerators and hackathons.

Answer 8

register at https://cofounderslab.com/ and look there. make a good profile to be found. And also angel.co - a more general but also an option.
do not listen to those who write that nothing will work out - those who have done something themselves usually do not write like that, and the advice of those who have not done it is useless.
Further depends only on you.
I found my cofounder on cofounderslab.com, I was also in a state of "something needs to be done." Now the project is already being sawn and passed to a couple of accelerators.

Answer 9

Update: There is teamfinding.com and develteam.com. However, there is only organic traffic.
Basically, acquaintances take place in groups of business incubators and startup accelerators in social networks, on sites (and themselves) hackathons / jams and other events, and in groups in social networks.
They need to be looked for in the same way as marketers and sellers look for in the buyer's market.
Yes, you have to look for them everywhere. Forums, conferences, comments on YouTube, groups in social networks. networks, an article on Habré or techchurch, even an ad in a newspaper, contextual advertising, or on a car to hang a leaf on the other side of the glass, at hackathons, at meet-ups.
In general, the question you have is not consistent with your desires. The fact is that you are looking for some kind of magical place where your acquaintances with some people about whom you have no clear idea will be fulfilled. You only have a clear idea of ​​the result of such an acquaintance.
I saw three different social media sites for dating startups, for finding a team, for collaboration of technical specialists. I found only one link in the archives of the diary, the last one in my memory was www.projectbuddy.io And they all failed for the reason that such sites are not really needed, and people definitely need them, who themselves do not know what they want.
PS I found my first colleague using the bulletin board, for a moment, in VKontakte, it was a long time ago. I found another at the university in the KVN group. I found another one in the community administration group of one global modification for one well-known game. When you know who you are looking for, the search does not take much time.
PPS Then I learned to understand who I really need.

Answer 10

99% of such projects are unprofitable, so no one wants to participate in the lottery where there will be no screwdriver for your invested forces. And if you yourself were sure that it would bring profit, then you would simply hire analysis without any problems.
I didn’t quite understand on the issue of whether there is already some kind of business idea or not, if not, then you are one step earlier.

Answer 11

I have another problem - there is a lot of work, there are no specialists.
Create a project from which tons of money will drip after the launch of a myth (well, or a case in a million). It takes a lot of work, constant improvement and development.