[shalmanese]

The explanation for why there's no good answer is because the people who most want a co-founder are the people who least deserve a co-founder. People who are easily able to find a co-founder just do it instead of asking questions on the Internet. This is intensely frustrating to the people asking because they feel like life owes them a co-founder somehow and if they only found the right hacks, one would magically appear. Instead, the answer is simply to be more impressive and tell more people how impressive you are and things by and largely fall into place.

I'm also highly skeptical of any marketplace solution like Founder Dating. The median outcome of a startups failure so a median quality co-founder will almost certainly result in failure. You need to find people on the extreme end of the bell curve for success to be likely. Those people are highly unlikely to frequent marketplaces since they have more demand than supply. To the extent that any successful startups get formed from Founder Dating, I wager it's more accident than engineered.