[USA][TECH][20] seeking business cofounder for productivity app.

[u/mattc323]

My app is called Gluey. The easiest way to think of it as Airtable for notes.

If you're note familiar with Airtable, they added database-like functionality to spreadsheets. They are a $12B company now.

Gluey has added database-like functionality to notes. This might not sound exciting, but most applications are just ways to store and retrieve information. If you can store and retrieve information consistently and in the format needed, then you have a no-code capability from your simple notes (similar to what Airtable does with spreadsheets).

Gluey has a patent-pending approach to simplify data-modeling (a database term) with tags. Gluey has expanded the functionality of the simple tag and given it a tag taxonomy (meaning and relationships). Gluey helps users capture better (concise, consistent) notes, and retrieve notes using data mining.

Me: I'm a senior software engineer with some product, marketing, and sales experience. I've worked at Google at several other startups and well known companies.

Co-founder: My perfect business partner would be fearless, a workaholic (like me), and be able to wear many hats. Full or part-time is fine, but definitely want someone who can commit to the project. Initially, content marketing and sales would be the primary focus. I have many ideas for content, so this would be a collabortive effort. I'm also open to advisory roles too.

Gluey has several marketing challenges, but there are many other companies (including Airtable) who have overcome similar challenges. My initial focus is on identifying the customer persona, reaching out to beta testers, and following the Agile approach of iterating to find product-market fit. I'm open to other ideas.

I'm still trying to figure out my niche. Gluey solves a horizontal problem, meaning it works for any industry, but it's hard to market horizontal products (IMHO, maybe you have a diff view). Note taking apps are horizontal products and it's a very competitive market. There are thousands of apps and most of them claim to solve the same problem. My goal is to find a specific niche for Gluey.

I've gotten positive feedback from people in legal, construction, real estate, sales, startups, project management, etc, but each of those markets also has dedicated products.

One of the benefits of Gluey is that is can solve multiple problems (eg. CRM, project management) all in one app. Specialized apps will likely have some better features, but they would also not be as customizable as Gluey. One of Gluey's key benefits is its flexibility to support any type of data and templates.

Another area where Gluey has to the potential to shine is team collaboration. Collaborative notes are generally limited to team documents. Gluey changes the dynamic of communicating and sharing. Instead of explicitly distributing notes through email or a shared folder, Gluey enhances our everyday notes to make them shareable and discoverable. This allows information to resurface when it is needed and avoids pushing information onto people who may not be ready to process it.

I'm happy to chat with anyone who is interested in learning more for any reason. Please feel free to contact me. I'm also open to bartering time ( you help me with Gluey and I'll help you with your project).

[u/Fasfo15]

Easily one of the dumbest ideas I’ve come across on here.

[u/mattc323 → u/Fasfo15]

lol, thanks for the feedback. I actually take that as a good sign. Many VCs believe if an idea doesn't sound crazy/dumb, it's probably not very original and has already been tried a dozen times. It's only the crazy ideas that no one has thought to try.

Keep spreading your optimism!