Hacker News Buddies wants to turn lurkers into collaborators

Hacker News Buddies is a tool built to help HN users find and connect with like-minded members of the community — targeting the gap between reading comments and actually finding people to work with or talk to. For solo makers, finding collaborators or co-founders through HN is mostly luck and cold comments; a dedicated matching layer could change that. It's an early-stage project worth watching if you've ever wished HN had a way to surface people, not just posts.