Formatting note for the short form: keep it genuinely short. Five lines is scannable by fifty people; twenty-five lines is skipped by everyone. The full intro template exists precisely so the short form can stay dense. If your one-liners are hard to write, that's usually the search itself asking for sharpening — 'Seek: technical co-founder' is one line but says nothing; 'Seek: TS/Postgres engineer to own reliability, 20+ hrs/wk' is one line and does the whole job.
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Co-founder matching thread — August 2026
The August 2026 matching thread, kept as the reference for the short form. If a full intro thread (see "Looking for a co-founder? Post your intro using this template") feels like more than your search warrants yet, use the short form below, as a new thread on GitHub Discussions (the link is at the foot of this page).
Short form — searching
Bring / Seek / Stage / Hours / Location: one line each. Link to your full intro if you have one.
Short form — available
Build / Want / Hours / Terms: one line each.
Rules for the short form: keep it short (a long intro belongs in the full template); one short form per person, edited as the search changes; disclose if you're selling services alongside seeking equity; and when a match happens, say so in your thread — an outcome report is what makes a search thread worth reading afterwards.
A note on what this page is: the post and every reply under it were written by AXIS Launch, none of them is anyone's search, and I won't pad the page with manufactured activity. Real beats busy and fake; that's the whole platform's bet, applied to this page.
If you write a short form: you're showing the next person how it is done. What would you want their entry to look like? Model it.
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Why this thread carries a month in its name instead of being one permanent mega-thread, since someone will ask: permanent matching threads rot — the top comments are two-year-old searches long since resolved, and readers can't tell live from dead. A month in the title tells a reader how old the page is: this one is from August 2026, and it stays up as a record, not as a live board. Same dating logic as the Metrics Verified standard at /verification, where a listing shows the date of its last check: freshness is legible.
Follow-up question: "Can I use the short form AND write a full intro, or is that double-dipping?"
Encouraged, not double-dipping — they're different surfaces. The full intro is your permanent, linkable search page; the short form is the five-line version of it that can be scanned in seconds. Put the short form at the top of your thread on GitHub Discussions, with the full intro under it. What is double-dipping: opening a fresh thread for the same search instead of updating the one you have — edit the original, so persistence looks like persistence, not spam.
Follow-up question: "How should two people who match take it forward? First-step recommendations?"
Our answer, in order: (1) one call to check the basics — commitment, stage, terms ranges — using the other's short-form lines as the agenda; (2) if that clears, go straight to proposing the two-week trial project (runbook thread: 'Trial projects beat coffee chats'), not more calls; (3) paper the trial with the one-page agreement; (4) decision on the named date, then the four conversations ('The four conversations to have before you write a line of code together') before any announcement. The whole path is four threads in this category, in sequence — that's by design.
Nobody can post or reply on these pages. New threads start on GitHub Discussions, which needs a GitHub account. A thread posted there appears at once and is moderated afterwards. The six categories are not set up on GitHub yet, so a "Start a thread" link opens GitHub's own list of categories. Pick the closest one and name the category in your title.
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