Co-founder pitches, sourced and curated.

The Idea
DroneHire is a B2B marketplace connecting commercial drone pilots with enterprise clients who need aerial data for construction, agricultural mapping, real estate, and infrastructure inspection. It streamlines pilot sourcing, airspace compliance, scheduling, and large dataset transfer.

Who It's For
Enterprise clients who need reliable licensed drone operators, and commercial drone pilots who want a better way to find and manage work.

What's Built
High-fidelity wireframes and a mapped-out user journey. No product built yet.

Early Traction
Spoke with dozens of commercial drone pilots and enterprise customers. Pain point is verified — they are actively losing time and money on scheduling and unreliable pilots.

Their Background
Non-technical founder with a background in operations and sales. Has spent the last few months on market validation, ICP mapping, and building out compliance and regulatory frameworks.

What They Need
A technical co-founder to own the full architecture and roadmap — full-stack marketplace development, data architecture for heavy file handling and photogrammetry/LiDAR pipelines, and early-stage velocity. Equity split with standard vesting.

The Idea
Kidmap.ai is a privacy-first AI platform that helps parents understand their child's whole development by connecting signals across academics, activities, behavior, digital habits, and social-emotional growth into clear, actionable insights.

Who It's For
Parents who want a more data-driven, thoughtful way to support their child's growth — without replacing parental instinct, but giving them earlier patterns and more context.

What's Built
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Early Traction
Has existing relationships with local government and school district stakeholders for early pilot opportunities once the product is ready.

Their Background
Enterprise software and AI/business transformation background. Experience in go-to-market, building customer relationships, and sales. Willing to self-fund the MVP phase.

What They Need
A hands-on technical co-founder to lead the product vision and build the MVP. Ideal background includes full-stack, AI/LLMs, data architecture, privacy-first products, and ideally experience in edtech or child-facing products.

The Idea
ProductiveDev is a developer training and accountability platform that combines structured training, proof-of-work tracking, AI coaching, expert sessions, and community accountability in one membership.

Who It's For
Bootcamp grads, CS students, and career changers who want to become real engineers, not just people who can prompt their way to a GitHub repo.

What's Built
The product is fully live. The technical side is solid and the core membership experience is complete.

Early Traction
Early visitors and first users are coming in.

Their Background
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What They Need
A marketing co-founder with real experience in growth, content distribution, and community building. Someone who knows how to build trust with a technical audience that has zero tolerance for anything that feels salesy.

The Idea
SocialMate is a social media management SaaS with 7 platform integrations and 15+ AI tools, competing with Buffer and Hootsuite at $5/mo or free. The founder also co-runs Hearthforge, a 3D printing product company, and a portfolio of local business websites.

Who It's For
Small businesses and creators who want social media tooling at a fraction of what Buffer or Hootsuite charge.

What's Built
SocialMate is fully live — billing, subscriptions, i18n in 9 languages, 38 users, 853+ posts published. Hearthforge is live with a co-founder handling manufacturing. Local business site portfolio is active and generating revenue.

Early Traction
SocialMate traffic up 126% in 30 days (1,089 visitors, 2,268 page views) with zero ad spend.

Their Background
Self-taught developer with no degree or outside funding. Built SocialMate solo using Claude Code. Co-founded Hearthforge 50/50 with a manufacturing partner. Also runs a portfolio of local business websites.

What They Need
A CMO-type co-founder to drive organic growth across Reddit, LinkedIn, X, SEO, and creator outreach. Sweat equity only. Looking for someone who can take the platform from a few dozen users to thousands on hustle alone before paid acquisition kicks in.

The Idea
Exploring new AI agent products — early ideas include a life coach agent and a designer agent.

Who It's For
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What's Built
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Early Traction
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Their Background
Design engineer and employee #1 at a YC company that's now reached $180M+ in payments volume.

What They Need
A co-founder to jam on early-stage AI product ideas, particularly on the product and growth side.

The Idea
A portfolio of published macOS and iOS consumer apps including an audio separator, equalizer, AI answer tool, GPS tracker, and storage cleaner — looking for a co-founder to own growth across all of them.

Who It's For
Consumer mobile and desktop users across audio, productivity, and utility categories.

What's Built
Seven live apps actively maintained on the App Store across macOS and iOS. Built and shipped entirely by the technical founder over 35 years of software engineering.

Early Traction
Apps are live and actively maintained. Specific revenue or download numbers not shared.

Their Background
35 years of software engineering experience. Built and shipped seven published macOS and iOS apps independently, covering audio tools, AI, productivity, and utilities.

What They Need
A growth-focused co-founder to own ASO, product positioning, content marketing, influencer outreach, paid acquisition, and customer acquisition. Equity, revenue share, or other structures are all on the table.

The Idea
Two finance and trading professionals who have identified inefficiencies in prediction markets and want to test and build around them — bots, data pipelines, automation, backtesting systems.

Who It's For
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What's Built
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Early Traction
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Their Background
Finance and trading background. Have spent significant time analyzing prediction markets and identifying specific inefficiencies they want to build around.

What They Need
A technical co-founder comfortable with Python, APIs, WebSockets, data collection, and automation. Experience with trading systems, data pipelines, or market-making tools is a strong plus. They will cover infrastructure and data costs and bring the market and trading expertise.

The Idea
A staffing and outsourcing business that places top English-speaking talent from Egypt into SMBs for high-volume lead generation and customer service roles.

Who It's For
Small and medium businesses looking to reduce operational costs by hiring skilled remote talent.

What's Built
A 2-year-old running business with an established hiring pipeline and client base.

Early Traction
$12,000 MRR as of last month.

Their Background
Built and run this business solo for 2 years.

What They Need
A sales co-founder to help scale the business quickly.

The Idea
Building at the intersection of marketplaces and applied AI. Specific idea not yet shared.

Who It's For
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What's Built
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Early Traction
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Their Background
Founding engineering lead at Uber Elevate. Currently a senior engineering manager and active angel investor.

What They Need
A co-founder to build at the intersection of marketplaces and applied AI.

The Idea
An idea in the AI agent world. Specific details not shared publicly.

Who It's For
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What's Built
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Early Traction
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Their Background
Product lead running the AI evals platform at a public tech company.

What They Need
A co-founder to build with on an idea in the AI agent space.

The Idea
An AI tool that maps what engineers actually do across GitHub, Jira, Slack, and other tools — turning scattered activity into a coherent picture of engineering work.

Who It's For
Engineering teams and managers who want better visibility into how work actually happens.

What's Built
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Early Traction
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Their Background
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What They Need
A co-founder to own the business side.

The Idea
An AI-driven accounting and bookkeeping automation platform with a clear wedge and distribution strategy already in place.

Who It's For
Businesses looking to automate accounting and bookkeeping workflows.

What's Built
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Early Traction
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Their Background
Previously at KPMG, then scaled two B2B SaaS companies from 0 to $10M+ ARR. Head of sales at Merge, helping scale to $20M+ ARR.

What They Need
A technical co-founder to build the product.

The Idea
A fund that acquires and operates vertical SaaS companies.

Who It's For
Vertical SaaS businesses looking for a buyer or operator partner.

What's Built
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Early Traction
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Their Background
Really early at Venmo. Founded and sold a vertical SaaS and embedded finance company to Rocket Group.

What They Need
A co-founder to build and run the fund with.

The Idea
AI-native services for healthcare admin — targeting health systems, payers, and revenue cycle, in the vein of YC's Summer 2026 RFS for AI-native services.

Who It's For
Operators inside health systems, payers, and revenue cycle teams who deal with administrative overhead daily.

What's Built
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Early Traction
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Their Background
Ex-founder and AI product leader. Built and shipped AI systems at Atlassian, filed 6 patents, and drove $60M+ in cost savings.

What They Need
Operators who have lived the pain inside health systems, payers, or revenue cycle.

The Idea
An AI copilot for in-field service technicians to help them do their jobs faster and with less friction on-site.

Who It's For
Field service technicians and the companies that dispatch them.

What's Built
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Early Traction
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Their Background
Repeat founder and AI engineering leader from Drift, Webflow, and Vanta.

What They Need
A co-founder to own the business side.

The Idea
A nutrition tracking platform built to help people understand and improve what they eat.

Who It's For
People looking for a better way to track nutrition, acquired organically with no paid spend.

What's Built
Platform is live and growing.

Early Traction
30,000 monthly active users reached organically.

Their Background
Tech lead at Instacart.

What They Need
A GTM co-founder to own growth and distribution.