Free CoffeeSpace Guides

Start with the company blog if you are new to the app

How to Find a Cofounder When You’re Non-Technical is dated 13 May 2025 and about 1,000 words long. It names CoffeeSpace twice: once as a place to meet technical builders, and once as a matching tool to compare against others. Its advice on what to look for in such a tool is useful. Its claims about the app are the company’s own. ^[1]

Read the 2024 founder interview for how matching was designed

A partner’s marketing blog published a founder interview in September 2024, updated in September 2025. It describes the matching filters as location, skillset, equity split and timeline, and it says dual-sided matching recommends people who meet each other’s requirements. The interview calls this the current matching layer. ^[3]

The interview also describes two later phases: one using education, experience and swipe data, and one comparing the similarity of two people’s ideas with OpenAI embeddings. In 2024 the first was in development and the second was planned. Read both as the 2024 plan, and check the features page for what is live. ^[3]

On privacy, the interview says users share a high-level description of an idea, not its details, and can mark equity as “fully negotiable” instead of giving numbers. Those are the two choices that matter before you post. The full data practices show what the company stores. ^[3]

The interview’s prices are the catch. It lists a Business tier at $49.99 a month and two more tiers as coming soon. Those figures are from September 2024 and do not match the current App Store list, so do not budget from them. ^[3]

Read the technical cofounder guide for the search before the app

The company’s technical cofounder guide, dated 11 September 2024, runs about 1,100 words and lists seven places to find a technical cofounder. CoffeeSpace gets one mention, under the heading for matching platforms. Read it for the search itself, then compare its platform advice with how matching works. ^[2]

It is promotional and gives a 47% figure about users with technical portfolios with no source or sample size. Treat that number as a claim, not evidence. ^[2]

Watch the founder’s video on matching mistakes

A CoffeeSpace founder interview on co-founder dating mistakes is an interview with the company’s founder about mistakes people make when they look for a cofounder, which makes it the only free video here about matching rather than a promotion. Its date and length were not shown on the page. ^[4]

Watch it after the blog post, because the claims come from the company’s founder. The common mistakes on this site cover the same ground with the costs spelled out. ^[4]

Once you have a co-founder: general tools, not CoffeeSpace’s

These three are general cofounder tools made by other companies. None was built for CoffeeSpace users. Use them after two people have agreed to try working together. ^{[5] [7]}

The Sidemail equity calculator is free and runs in the browser. Each founder rates role, time and idea, and it returns a target split with a CSV export. It does not model vesting or a cliff, so it gives a starting split, not a final one. ^[5]

Promise Legal publishes a founder agreement template with a four-year vesting schedule, a one-year cliff, an IP assignment and a non-compete clause. You can copy the text free. PDF and Word downloads are listed as coming soon, and the page prices attorney review at $1,500 to $5,000. ^[6]

The Capbase equity calculator asks about time, idea, domain expertise, capital and execution, then suggests a percentage per founder. Its title calls it a free tool, but the page does not show whether an account is needed. Its vendor sells cap-table and incorporation services, and the page points to that platform. ^[7]