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Ask HN: Should we develop a creative-commons based alternative to Crunchbase?

1 points by ronreiter 10y ago

I am sick of the fact that Crunchbase is locked down and yet people still happily contribute to it. Why not create an always-free alternative to Crunchbase and just commoditize the "wikipedia for companies" once and for all? P.S. I was one of the creators of the SNC Finder (https://finder.startupnationcentral.org/) so I know what it means to build an open alternative for a company database.

jimbean2 10y ago
How is it locked down? The website is free to use... They have some paid products but they don't seem to put any of the contributed data behind a pay wall so not sure what you mean.
- ronreiter 10y ago
  It's not really searchable unless you pay for it.