I came across your posts while doing research on the feasibility of an idea I had last week for a card/service that enables drivers to pre-pay for gallons of gas and then later redeem those gallons at any point in the future.
Although you surely beat me to the idea, I would love to have the opportunity to chat and see if there might be an opportunity for us to collaborate.
I really like your approach to validating the market by initially trying to disprove it rather than prove it or make it work.
I’m not sure if you are still having trouble finding co-founders (given that your post was from 2017), but I can completely empathize with you on the co-founder dilemma you were running into. I went through the same co-founder fit struggles with a startup that I co-founded (fish and shrimp farming software platform… yes very random haha) which we recently decided not to continue moving forward with after working on our hardware/software engineering for 2 years.
One of the biggest lessons I learned was how critical it is to find motivated co-founders that have grit and share the same hard working mindset when it comes to putting in the long hours needed to pull things off and move fast.
I’m new to Elite Trader (I joined specifically because of this thread that you created). I tried viewing your profile to send you a direct message but was restricted from viewing your profile. Would you be open to having a call this week? If privacy is a concern, maybe we could use Google Voice phone numbers to preserve anonymity? I’d be down either way... we can have an anonymous call or share our identities… whatever you’re most comfortable with.
Can you DM me?
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