Founder and builder matchmaking
Platforms that match founders, developers, investors and other builders for co-founding, collaboration, peer feedback exchange, hiring and professional networking.
Built for: Startup founders and indie builders
Projects since May 04
95
Different builders
93
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+22%
AI is the core
14%
Projects per week
Mostly web app (66%), content or community site (12%), mobile app (8.4%) · from r/SideProject, r/SaaS, r/IMadeThis, r/vibecoding
Latest
- Provix — Runs static code audits on public repositories to score modularity, test health, error handling, and build tooling.“I’m building a code-vetted developer network: looking for 10 devs to stress-test the repo auditor”
- Lets founders search an investor directory for matching investors, unlock their work emails, and generate professional outreach messages for LinkedIn and email.“Built something that is pain point for all founder”
- Surka — Tracks promotion swap commitments between two founders, with due dates, partner links, and proof-of-delivery review.“I built a way to keep two-sided founder promotion swaps from getting lost”
- CEO Collabs Hub — Lets founders publish their projects and connect with other founders for feedback and collaboration.“Built a simple hub for founders to publish projects and find collaborators”
- Connects students with project-based internship opportunities.“I made this, now don't have any user”
- Pituchim — Aggregates Israeli tech news and offers a searchable startup directory with filters for category, funding stage and location.“Pituchim — Israeli tech news and a searchable startup directory”
- Techleads.fyi — Looks up which technologies a company uses in its tech stack.“I gave Claude Opus 5.5 one prompt and got a 32-second launch video with a synced soundtrack. Here's the prompt.”
- SteveRank — Ranks people named Steve in Silicon Valley by companies founded, capital raised, career prestige and current activity.“SteveRank - I built a leaderboard for the most successful Steves in Silicon Valley”
- Devmeld — Lets developers sign up, set a profile picture, and eventually post threads, message each other, and code together to find collaborators.“Day 1 — building Devmeld from scratch”
- Plans a social media platform that connects builders and founders for building in public, with a waitlist currently collecting signups.“should i build a waitlist before building?”
- Unlinked.dev — Provides a free professional networking platform where developers and builders connect based on the products they ship.“I’m a 64-year-old former carpenter. LinkedIn thinks I’m invisible, so I built an "Anti-LinkedIn" platform for builders who actually code.”
- 52K VC & Investor Database — Compiles and deduplicates public investor lists into a spreadsheet of VCs, angels and family offices with contact details and investment criteria.“52K VC & Investor Database!”
- react.engineer — Sells permanent engineer profile pages and sponsored bid placements that show companies to React developer traffic.“Selling React-niche attention: engineer pages + company outbid board”
- Portunio — Lets people publish a public address where strangers send opportunity proposals, with AI helping the sender clarify the proposal before the recipient decides whether to engage.“I'm building Portunio: a public AI address for opportunities beyond your network”
- nojo.club — Provides browser-based virtual rooms with proximity voice chat so solo workers can talk to nearby people.“I made a browser hangout for people who work alone. If I'm in there, I'll play you piano.”
- Natiglob — Runs a selective cohort where builders with proof of work collaborate across borders on prototyping and shipping products.“I got tired of the "idea guys" in college E-cells, so I built a zero-fluff global sandbox for actual builders. (Looking for our Founding 20)”
- sixdegrees.work — Finds a warm introduction path from the user to a target company or person through mutual connections.“Created a simple website to find you a warm path to a company/person -- useful? terrible?”
- TinkerMap — Lets users create profiles of their skills, interests and projects and see nearby people building similar things on a map.“Built a 'people finder' for tech communities — see who nearby is building what”
- Panomus — Matches users with other people who complement their skills and goals to help them find collaborators.“I built a matching engine for finding collaborators”
- DevGlobe — Shows opted-in developers as live dots on a global map while they code in VS Code, sharing only identity, approximate location, language, and session timing.“DevGlobe now supports live coding presence from VS Code.”
Most discussed
- Manyplace — Provides a shared virtual room where people work, study or read alongside each other in a calm setting.“I built a peaceful virtual place where you can work, study or read alongside others. Like a virtual café or library.”
- nojo.club — Provides browser-based virtual rooms with proximity voice chat so solo workers can talk to nearby people.“I made a browser hangout for people who work alone. If I'm in there, I'll play you piano.”
- TalentTrade — Lets users share their skills and find people who can teach them other skills.“I dreamed of building my own social network. So I built TalentTrade”
- Plans a social media platform that connects builders and founders for building in public, with a waitlist currently collecting signups.“should i build a waitlist before building?”
- Provides a searchable library of high-performing posts from Indian creators across LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube, filterable by niche.“I'm trying to validate a content-research tool for Indian creators before building it. Roast my landing page”
- Lets founders meet and review each other's projects on one platform.“Does anybody have tips on how to scale my SaaS?”
- Techleads.fyi — Looks up which technologies a company uses in its tech stack.“I gave Claude Opus 5.5 one prompt and got a 32-second launch video with a synced soundtrack. Here's the prompt.”
- GitTalent — Lets developers showcase GitHub work on shareable profiles and lets recruiters post jobs and find candidates beyond resumes.“A recruiter just posted the first direct role on the dev hiring platform I’ve been building”
- crato — Hosts a social network profile where founders and developers post independent, searchable project pages that link back to their profile.“I built crato, the social network for founders and developers”
- The Pain Points Project — Matches people who have problems they want solved with people looking for a new side project to build.“I made a website that helps you find a side project”