Ask HN: Friend interested as co-founder but he's dropping the ball.
Note, we haven&#x27;t established anything on paper yet, and we have no customers. I&#x27;m still building the product, and I&#x27;ve done maybe 95% of the work on the product so far.<p>A friend was interested in working with me and since I was working on it alone I thought sure you can join me. I thought he was on the same page in terms of the problem I&#x27;m trying to solve.<p>Since then he did some work, but he just doesn&#x27;t show the level of enthusiasm I&#x27;m expecting of someone who wants to be a co-founder. I have to keep asking him to do stuff, and basically push him to do anything. The one thing I do like is that I can talk out the issues I&#x27;m facing with him, but I&#x27;d prefer someone who can do work as well.<p>I feel like this is not going to work out, and I think I might have to ask him this week if he&#x27;s actually willing to do things on his own because otherwise it might be best for us to not work together.<p>Is there something I can do to try and change the dynamic or maybe encourage him, or is this just not worth it and I should nip it in the bud sooner than later?