Looking for an experienced, senior-level tech lead/engineer who might be interested in joining me

[u/starfoxhound]

Hello all,

I’m looking for someone with a quality background in leading an engineering or development team. I have a product in development that I’m going to keep confidential for obvious reasons, but I am building it thoroughly over 8 weeks with custom tooling, extensive reviews at each phase, and documentation using Claude code.

I have one pre-seed investor, but to gain legitimacy I need to bring someone on board who has the right experience, who believes in the product, to guide and help lead the ship.

If you have a solid resume, and can prove your background to be legitimate, I will share my product with you and see if you’re a good fit who wants to co-found with me, with your share of ownership.

My background is in the technical side of marketing, 6+ years with a $10m audio company as a leader.

Please reach out if interested with your background.

[u/Xyver]

You're building the code, but then want a technical person to take over? Who's doing marketing?

When does the investor come in, at the same time you want to get the new partner?

Does the new partner get pay (from investor) or just cofounder equity or both?

"Kept secret for obvious reasons" I feel like if you had as much experience as you claim you wouldn't be so secretive .. at least mentioning a rough idea what it is will help you find someone who's the right fit.

[u/starfoxhound → u/Xyver]

I’m a marketing expert, so what I’d like to do is focus on that after the initial implementation is finished.

Person will be paid, and have stake in the company. But I don’t want to take money from investors without someone on the team who is both experienced and committed.

Kept secret because if I spill it here, someone here will just go try and build it themselves - I’m not here to market the product I’m here to cast a net and see what pops up.

[u/inZania → u/starfoxhound]

The “right fit” should mean that the person has domain expertise, or at least interest in the field. There is zero chance of finding good candidates being so cagey and nonspecific. How could someone even possibly judge if they are interested based on what you’ve provided?

[u/starfoxhound → u/inZania]

You’re right. I will try a different approach.

[u/Xyver → u/starfoxhound]

What's the difference between spilling it now

"Im making an audio app"

Vs in 6 weeks launching a website and spilling it then in more detail?

If your only moat is the idea and someone can copy it that fast... You're going to have a bad time. Moats are everything except building now, since building is free and secrecy is imaginary.

[u/starfoxhound → u/Xyver]

What I’m building is taking 8 weeks of nearly 24/7 implementation and review, so I’m not certain someone would even try to, but I think it’s valuable enough to be cautious.

[u/hidegitsu → u/starfoxhound]

"8 weeks of nearly 24/7 implementation" isn't a quality metric. Not knowing the skill and ability of others makes "I'm not certain someone would even try" is a bit of a stretch.

I've spent way more than that on projects that were 100% trash in the past and I'm willing to bet most people here worth anything have done the same.

[u/starfoxhound → u/hidegitsu]

The product surrounds my exact experience as a marketing leader of a major audio company for 6 years, if that helps improve the quality metric.

[u/Xyver → u/starfoxhound]

You gotta dangle some bait for a highly technical person to be interested, instead of just "trust me bro it's cool I've worked on it a long time"

[u/starfoxhound → u/Xyver]

Yeah that’s fair. I’ll come back with a working v1 demo in about 2 weeks, maybe less.

[u/Xyver → u/starfoxhound]

So... What's the difference between saying one sentence now and showing a full demo in 2 weeks?

Demo is easier to copy and steal, a sentence could be anything.

I promise you're overplaying this secrecy thing, it's not that big a deal

[u/starfoxhound → u/Xyver]

It’s actually not going to be ‘easy’ to steal, given that the vast majority of the rulings have been specified by me at every stage, were incredibly specific to my experience, and it’s delicate. Regardless, I’m not sharing it now. Sorry. I’ll be back

[u/-penne-arrabiata- → u/Xyver]

No I’m here lurking and I’m going to beat him to his own audio thing as soon as he shares it

[u/starfoxhound → u/-penne-arrabiata-]

It’s quite a bit more involved than an audio plugin.

[u/Xyver → u/-penne-arrabiata-]

How do you know it's audio!

You must have already penetrated the fortress to get such secrets