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@neiled
From York, Living in New York
Like many developers I've usually got a side project or two going, I get to do less development during my regular day-job and more management so I like keeping the programming side of my brain ticking over with various projects.
One of the problems that I have is that I'm definitely not artistic and struggle with the design of applications (graphically/ux etc.) - because of this I rarely get anything 'to market' as I'm generally unhappy with the way it looks/feels and lose interest.
Obviously I could spend my time improving my design skills, and they are definitely better than they were, but I don't enjoy the graphical aspects as much as the development. I could also outsource but that can get expensive and it's more difficult to experiment I feel.
I'm interested in finding a partner who wants to do the design/ux aspects of whichever side projects we like the sound of and (that might make us a little bit of revenue - I'm happy with a 50/50 revenue share).
At the moment I'm primarily interested in iOS applications but I have history of web-apps and windows applications.
I've asked around with the few designer friends I have but they're not really interested. I've also looked on builditwith.me but I'm not sure how active that site is at the moment (I didn't get a response from a couple of people that I messaged, but I'll persevere) so if anyone has any other sites that help match up spare-time developers/designers or other techniques for finding them I'd be interested. I've just moved to NYC and I know there's a great startup scene here so I'm going to have a browse at the meetups too, but I didn't particularly want to limit my searching to NYC just because that's where I am...
Obviously if anyone reading might be interested in partnering with someone for some iOS apps (or whatever gets us both excited) for a few hours a week (or as and when) then get in touch also!
Thanks for reading, Neil
