Ask HN: How to deal with a cofounder not pulling their weight? 7 by engineercodex | 5 comments on Hacker News. I'm a technical founder who connected with a semi-technical cofounder in January. At this time, we connected pretty well because he saw the vision I had and seemed to be pretty motivated. We talked for hours about the idea, vision, poked holes through it, etc. He was a go-getter who wasn't afraid to DM people and reach out to people to ask for things. In the beginning, he made a pitch deck and applied to some grants, which I thought would be an indicator of motivation. We got rejected for those since we need more traction before we continue forward. However, since then, there has been no substantial work done on his part. It's been a few months now and I'm very frustrated now. Red flags for me: - Everything has been ideated, designed, and implemented by me (other than the name + logo). He has 0 contribution other than feedback on what the screen looks like. ...