Seeking Feedback on Copilotry for Finding the Right Co-Founder

·Jan 13, 2026 09:35 AM·

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Hey everyone 👋 Quick intro: I previously built and sold a small SaaS, and one of the biggest pains I ran into wasn’t product or GTM, it was finding the right co-founder. I went through a lot of intro calls, great conversations that went nowhere, and a few misaligned partnerships that were way more expensive than any wrong feature decision. After that experience, I started experimenting with a side project called Copilotry .app The goal is to make co-founder matching more transparent and less “LinkedIn + vibes”, by focusing on how people actually work, think, and collaborate not just titles or buzzwords. It’s very early, still in validation mode. I’m not selling anything, I’m mostly looking for honest feedback from founders and operators who’ve been through co-founder chaos before. If you’ve: struggled to find the right co-founder been burned by misalignment

or have strong opinions on what actually matters in a founding team

I’d love to hear your thoughts 🙏 Happy to share more context if useful.

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Andreas L.
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how is this different from YC Startup Match?
Andrea K.
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This resonates. Most co-founder failures I’ve seen weren’t about skill gaps. They were about decision style, risk tolerance, and how conflict actually gets handled when things go sideways. One question I always ask founders: When things get messy, do you want a partner who moves fast and breaks things, or one who slows the room down and pressure-tests decisions? Misalignment there gets expensive very quickly.

Andreas L.
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how is this different from YC Startup Match?
Andrea K.
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This resonates. Most co-founder failures I’ve seen weren’t about skill gaps. They were about decision style, risk tolerance, and how conflict actually gets handled when things go sideways. One question I always ask founders: When things get messy, do you want a partner who moves fast and breaks things, or one who slows the room down and pressure-tests decisions? Misalignment there gets expensive very quickly.