[USA][TECH][20] Full-Stack Developer looking for React Co-Founder to take on Goodreads out of spite.

I posted about a month ago here looking for a design co-founder for a book-related startup and it worked out extremely well! I found a UI/UX designer and we've done about 20 user interviews so far to identify problems & usage, some competitive analysis, collaborative sketching, and other research over the past month. We have a team of 4 so far with roles of: Full-stack Dev/PM, UI/UX, Business Dev, Content/Viz Design. I've been working on the dev infrastructure side and have imported and organized millions of books in a way that should allow us to easily import users' books from Goodreads and grow that piece with new books as they're released. The data is available using a solid GraphQL API (Hasura) coupled with a federated GraphQL endpoint on Express which handles some backend heavy lifting. My plan is to extend that federated GraphQL endpoint using Tensorflow js for recommendations – but that's still a ways off. It's JavaScript all the way down. The Idea In other words, we're off to a great start. We even have a name - Hardcover! Our target demographic is serious book readers who love to track what they read, dig deep for new book recommendations, and want more social features to help connect with other like-minded readers to find new books to read and share their favorites with. This week we're finishing up the first prototypes based on our initial round of user research. The next step will be interviewing users, showing them these prototypes, iterating on them, then implementing those designs once we feel the prototypes are resonating with users in the way we want. Your Role That's where you come in. We're looking for a front-end developer that absolutely loves React/Next js/GraphQL and has an eye for a beautiful design. Tailwind css is a plus too, as you'll take prototypes and turn those into actual screens that are similar. Luckily, we'll have user-tested designs to work off of, but your contributions can help shape what we build at all phases of the process. You'll only need to worry about the React/Next js side of this application, and making that the best possible user experience. This includes using any number of methods: motion design, animation, visual cues, and more to make the experience the best it can possibly be. If things go well, we'll eventually want a mobile app, so React Native experience would be a plus (or just the desire to learn it). You should have enough experience to take a design and an API and be able to create a production-ready feature without technical help. Everyone on the team is working on this part-time on nights & weekends – about ~10 hours a week (or more in my case). The hope is to grow it at that pace over the next 2 months, then decide where it goes from there. You'd be working closely with me on the front-end side. I have some React experience and have worked on courses on Node/Angular/Ember/Backbone/jQuery (remember jQuery?), so I'd be in there with you building the front-end too. I'm better on the backend, so I'm hoping to find someone a lot better than me at React who can help steer this part of the app. When the backend is in a good place I'd jump over to the front-end allowing us to work together there. In other words, this isn't a solo project – we'd be working together. It's still early, but the plan is for ownership to use the slicing pie model, where everyone's ownership (myself included) is based on the contributions we put in. If you haven't read up on this model, it's a really great way to grow a team while giving everyone ownership proportional to their work. If this sounds interesting to you, you like books, and you're interested in going up against Amazon, please reach out! submitted by /u/Dyogenez [link] [comments] https://www.reddit.com/r/cofounder/comments/nln25p/usatech20_fullstack_developer_looking_for_react/