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13 points by Eyalush 5503 days ago
I’m a non-technical idea guy and a business guy that has been successful in my work for other startups.

As someone who has been a founding employee at more than one startup, I’ve gotten to a point where I am sitting on ideas I think are brilliant and would love to build.

I’ve noticed how difficult it is to find a technical co-founder, let alone convince them to come on board with an idea. That turned into a project for me, learn to build something myself. So I built a site that is meant to help idea/marketing guys connect with technical co-founders and vice versa. http://www.incubationqueue.com/

My main goal wasn’t necessarily to get any attention or traction with it, but just to learn, and that I did. If it proves useful to people I’ll support it and maybe rebuild it in something more challenging, with greater functionality to continue the learning process.

If nothing else, I have a little more insight into what it takes to build a site.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions on the site and how to improve it.

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I like the concept and it seems like you've already got a handful of good ideas there. For a nontechnical guy you did a great job!

The design isn't bad except for a few things: 1. The choice of the "Yanone Kaffeesatz" font. It just doesn't look right to me and it's a little distracting. 2. The blue link color seems off too. Maybe something darker would go better.

How long did it take you to build this? What did you use?
Looks like Wordpress and some kind of classifieds plugin.

I think it looks pretty good.

Yep, exactly.

I used Wordpress, and I altered a classifieds plugin to make this work. Not exactly earth shattering, but for someone who has never done this before, I feel good about it.

This prob took me a couple weeks in nights and weekend time. I probably spent as much time researching, reading, and learning (whether relevant to the site or not) as building it.

how about this one? http://www.techcofounder.com/