Ask HN: How do you find cofounders?

[protopeer]

Hi everyone, I'm currently working on a startup idea I'm personally really excited about and I'm looking for a cofounder but it has been really tough. I've convinced some of my peers of the viability of my idea, and managed to enlist their help intermittently (we are all CS graduates) but I have thus far been unsuccessful in convincing any of them to commit to it full-time unless I can afford to match their current salary as many of them have long-term financial commitments. As a result, I'm the only full-time person on the project and things are moving along much slower than I'd like. I managed to come up with a working prototype which is live right now, but having another technical cofounder I can work with would multiply my productivity by magnitudes.

For teams out there with full-time cofounders, how did you find them or each other? How did you manage to convince them to commit full-time?

[sharemywin]

Stop looking. focus on finding someone that will be your first customer they will be way more valuable than any co-founder. if you have to build them a custom solution, do it. if your building some kind of ad based product remember the customer are the advertisers.