Me (Gaurav Gupta) and my co-founder on Hackr.io (Saurabh Hooda) met online and we started work in a client/vendor relationship on Lenro.co, Saurabh's original startup. I was running SquareBoat (an app/web development company based in New Delhi) and Saurabh contacted me to build Lenro.co for him.
Two years later, Saurabh decided to close it down but we had by then seen each other's style of working. So for our next startup, we just decided to do it together as co-founders.
Hackr.io is doing well and remains as one of the All-Time Top 50 Hunts on Product Hunt till date.
I'm a full-stack developer with about 9 years of work experience who's worked with several startups in the past including SlideShare-LinkedIn, Naukri.com etc. in various senior engineering and system architect roles. I started SquareBoat in 2013 - a company to help startups build and scale successful web and mobile products.
Location: New Delhi, India
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: PHP, Laravel, AWS, HTML/CSS, Android, iOS, Angular, React
Résumé/CV: http://gauravgupta.in
Email: [email protected]
I'm a full-stack developer with about 8 years of work experience who's worked with several startups in the past including SlideShare-LinkedIn, Naukri.com etc. in various senior engineering and system architect roles.
There is enough free educational material on the web (google for Hackr.io etc.) What is the point of paying for a course if good (sometimes even better!) stuff is available for free?
Plenty of people are working as "Cloud CTO's" these days - Basically senior developers (with or without a team of their own) who can help you architect, build and scale your products. Some work on cash, some purely on equity also. They will also offer solid tech advice on other aspects like SEO, Digital Marketing etc. though they may not be experts in those.
In my experience, good technical guys are either blocked by large corporations (the Google's and Microsoft's of the world) or are doing something of their own, so finding good cofounder/CTO talent is a big challenge. The cloud CTO model has worked well for a surprisingly large number of startups.