Cute, but think twice about making this the focus of your time as people have advised above. Finding a cofounder is a pain point for many people (myself included) but the market can't be very large. You will also have to address a challenge that regular dating sites have, namely that those who successfully find a match will no longer use your service. Unlike regular dating sites, cofounder-matching sites seem stacked with people looking for help with their idea, perhaps because those willing to work for someone else already have a job and aren't as driven to get involved. Are there really an equal number of people who think "I'd love to work on a startup but don't have an idea of my own that I am passionate about"?
That being said, none of the cofounder-matching sites I've used have solved my problem so I suppose there is room in this space. If you did take a cue from OKC and institute a system of curated user-generated Q&As you might be on to something. The services I've used were primitive in their matching ability (e.g. I am a developer looking for a designer, which tells you nothing about values, principles, working style, etc.) so hey, maybe you could make it work.
I experienced this first-hand as a well-rounded undergraduate working in a graduate lab. It was frowned upon if you did anything other than live and breathe whatever work was done in the lab. There was some kind of competition on to see who was more dedicated and self-sacrificing of leisure time, hobbies, friends, family, etc. I'd always be dead last playing that particular game. I value my work/life balance and invest a great deal in my side projects and hobbyist pursuits.
The same general disdain for people with well-rounded interests occurs at some companies so this effect certainly isn't limited to science.
Ultimately, the solution is to change the culture of the lab (or workplace) you are working in... not always an easy thing to do from the bottom up, mind you.
Usually these thought experiments are framed in terms of Gt C (gigatons of carbon), not CO2 by weight. This allows for easier conversion.
I was going to bang out some numbers from my undergrad climate science course notes... but Wikipedia's article about the carbon cycle has the figures I was looking for. Check out the box on the right under "main components":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle
The fossil fuel estimates look low to me, particularly "other (peat)". Permafrost soils and peatlands contain about as much carbon as the atmosphere does. Circumboreal (e.g. Canada, Russia, and Fennoscandia) permafrost soils and peatlands are estimated to contain 273 to 547 Gt C alone (and I even have some references: Gorham 1991; Turunen et al. 2002; Yu et al. 2010).
Merely doubling atmospheric carbon content by burning up all available fossil fuels would be nice... but the reality is much worse.
Finding the right co-founder can be hard depending on who you are and who you know. If you can't manage to find someone, hiring the right person (or people) might do, and you can always shift an ideal candidate into the co-founder position after working together for a while. It all depends on what resources you have available and how much you can do yourself.
Although my experience is limited I am in precisely the same situation these days. I have spent about six months looking for the right technical co-founder. I can't hire at standard developer wages and would prefer some help with the heavy lifting (my skill set is more design and business-oriented). Searching for the ideal candidate has been a time-consuming process involving countless emails, numerous in-person meetings/interviews, filling out profiles, applying for founder matchmaker services, etc. It has been a time sink much like fundraising... only I haven't found a co-founder.
Instead, I'll be bootstrapping as a single founder for as long as I need to (or can). I figure that since I have the capacity to start building the product envision I may as well get moving. I can always take on a co-founder later, after I have more to show.
Very impressive. I don't use music discovery sites at all but your single-handed ability to conceive, design, and build a project of this quality is inspirational. I'll be keeping an eye on you for a while yet.
What sort of file quality are you looking for from music blog applicants? Can you scrape files out of ZIP archives?
That being said, none of the cofounder-matching sites I've used have solved my problem so I suppose there is room in this space. If you did take a cue from OKC and institute a system of curated user-generated Q&As you might be on to something. The services I've used were primitive in their matching ability (e.g. I am a developer looking for a designer, which tells you nothing about values, principles, working style, etc.) so hey, maybe you could make it work.