You live in the same city. You founded a project with him. It's not like you have submitted patches to Linux from different parts of the world, without ever seeing each other.
I don't want to sound like I have something personal (I didn't even know your names until yesterday) but your assumption that the readers here on HN have no clue makes me sick.
If you know each other, that should be disclosed. I have no qualms about recommending a friend's startup, given that the friendship is disclosed.
Other project meaning actually founding that project together [1]:
> The Makers for Life collective and project were founded by three entrepreneurs in Nantes. Quentin Adam (CEO Clever Cloud), Baptiste Jamin and Valérian Saliou (Co-founders Crisp) [...]
You live in the same city. You founded a project with him. It's not like you have submitted patches to Linux from different parts of the world, without ever seeing each other.
I don't want to sound like I have something personal (I didn't even know your names until yesterday) but your assumption that the readers here on HN have no clue makes me sick.
If you know each other, that should be disclosed. I have no qualms about recommending a friend's startup, given that the friendship is disclosed.
[1] https://makair.life/2020/05/01/makers-for-life-the-making-of...