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Ask HN: How Do You Start a Dev Shop CoOp

I'm a very poor dev, I've been honing my skills for the last 4 years in Rails, Laravel, and MeteorJS, alas I'm currently stuck in a less than ideal day job paying $16.00 per hour for server support.

What I'd like to do is team up with Rails and Meteor Devs maybe 2 of each. Start out part-time build a couple 'demo' or small startup idea apps. Perhaps pick some of the best projects on Assembly.com to clone, or build for our portfolio -- if they are profitable build them out as their own startup, if not use them to market dev services.

As founder, I'd like of course some bonus for the idea, but I'm not greedy, the other founders as well would get more than future employees in terms of company ownership. It would mostly be based on an every hour worked = 1 share and 1 vote on the board. So obviously those with the company longer and putting in more hours get more in bonuses and shares. Salary would be even and equal for everyone in the company, with bonuses based on # of shares, and other factors.

So, first off anyone care to join? Secondly, how would you go about recruiting or finding the founders to something like this?

10 points gremlinsinc 11 years ago 6 comments

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