but if you are successful doesn't that demonstrate the uselessness of your yet to be developed web app since you were able to accomplish the task without it?
I think that's Samwise's point - if you can manage your own startup (i.e. find and communicate with a co-founder) without the startup-management application you're planning to build, it looks like you're shooting yourself in the foot - unless the pre-app process is super difficult, a la infomercials that make traditional can openers look unusable.
If I understand correctly, though, you aren't doing it as a marketing ploy, you're doing it to find out for yourself just how difficult it is to manage a small company without specialized mobile applications. My guess is you'll find out that it isn't so hard, but I get what you're doing and it's kind of cool.
To be clear: I am simply looking for my co-founder via my iPhone. I have no allusions that I can actually do a startup in any capacity using only my iPhone. Not a gimmick or ploy - but rather an earnest attempt to kick the process of in the same spirit that actual web-app will operate in once realized: on-the-go.
Today I posted the original post from the gym, responded from one office, read and responded from the highway, more from another office, and now standing in line for a Mexican salad. So, I'm happy that everybody has given me food for thought and I didn't even need to open my laptop.
I currently view network cameras, access performance and employee data via various sites and applications on my iPhone. Web App simply consolidates many of those things into one easy format.