[RiderOfGiraffes]

In case anyone's interested:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2068669

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2077491

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2110475

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2111857

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2122857

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2130163

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2163366

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2166411

A nice comment is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2122865

    Since you've tried 5 times why not take a little time
    to write a more compelling job offer? Describe what the
    person's responsibilities will be, what you're expecting
    from a potential hire, what makes working for you cool
    and worth while, etc. Write a little about yourself in
    your profile. 5 failed attempts had to have told you
    something.

Also the comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2166468

    First of all, who "hires" a co-founder? But that lexical
    issue aside, the biggest reason nobody will respond to
    this here is because nobody is interested working on a
    mystery project without anything to remotely pique our
    interest. You don't provide the slightest detail about
    the project, or even what industry or problem it might
    be relevant to. For all we know you are trying to get
    somebody to write a Wordpress theme. Please provide
    insight into your project or frame it in terms of how it
    is useful or important to this community. Or stop posting
    it again.

As I wrote earlier:

    Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and
    expecting different results.

        -- Albert Einstein, (attributed)

[timrobinson]

"doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" - I'm beginning to wonder whether this applies to you more than the OP... :)

[RiderOfGiraffes]

<grin>

I was aware of the irony as I wrote that, but I have various tools that let me construct such responses quite quickly. Having done it this time I can simply refer to it and not have to go though the motions again.

And besides, I've only spent two periods, each of less than 3 minutes (yes, I'm sad, I did time them) to construct all the replies so far. Technically I've made one set of replies, and then seen the same post come back. Doing the same things again once to see if you get a different response is, I think, fair enough. Bt I won't be replying in detail again. (90 second reply)