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The Y Combinator Database
- myroon5 8y agoGuessed this site was made by them when the third metric was: "The Most Photogenic Based on Snappr Photo Quality Score" Interesting site regardless
- ericjang 8y agoVery nice! Is the raw data publicly available? Or is it just scraped from Crunchbase?
- throwaway673874 8y agoIt has become very tough to scrape crunchbase off late. I cant do any scripting around it using headless chrome. It instantly recognizes you are not a human
- verdverm 8y agoThe "search" seems more like autocomplete than search. Try entering "banana" and the search button is disabled
- kylelibra 8y agoWhat's the marketing angle for Snappr here?
- nodesocket 8y agoThis is awesome, but I also wondered how much effort it took the Snappr team to build? I suspect just having a plug/link in the footer is enough, plus SEO juice.
- rozenmd 8y agoIt's classic side-project marketing to increase brand visibility, etc
- arkadiyt 8y agoThey're missing the YC13 company I work at (Lob).
- mdschiller 8y agoMatt from Snappr here. This is the source we used for the base list of companies: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ For some reason Lob doesn't appear.
- jedc 8y agoYC's list has a surprising number of errors. Lob is on Seed-DB, though - https://seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=1011 https://seed-db.com/accelerators/view?acceleratorid=1011
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- jedberg 8y agoInfogami didn't die, it merged with reddit. I know because I had to figure out how to make that code actually run.
- codegeek 8y agoThere is also https://yclist.com https://yclist.com which is not as polished but has some interesting information.
- cyberferret 8y ago"Most photogenic"... Really?? EDIT: And here come the downvotes, so let me clarify my stance. I haven't a clue what Snappr does, or what their definition of 'photogenic' is. But here is the dictionary definition of 'photogenic': (adjective) (especially of a person) looking attractive in photographs or on film. So my impression was that this metric was to do with how attractive perhaps the founders were. The overall impression here is YC somehow rates the aesthetic qualities of people in order to select who is 'in'. That sort of impression can do untold damage to their brand, and I am surprised that they let this be a thing.
- adanto6840 8y agoAccording to the page (https://www.ycdb.co/top-companies/photo-quality-score https://www.ycdb.co/top-companies/photo-quality-score), it is: "Score between one and 100 based on an analysis of all photos on the company's homepage. Source: Snappr."
- scrollaway 8y agoI wonder which one's the top scoring one! https://www.ycdb.co/top-companies/photo-quality-score https://www.ycdb.co/top-companies/photo-quality-score OH BOY IT'S SNAPPR! This is probably not biased.
- technotony 8y agoOf course it is. The whole site is made by them[1]. Clever marketing move! [1] YCDB is made in San Francisco by the team at Snappr, which is a YC company (W17). Why? Because we love YC companies and discovering new ones! Edited by Matt Schiller.
- mdschiller 8y agoMatt from Snappr (maker of YCDB) here - your point is totally fair, 'photogenic' is not the best word for it. I just went ahead and changed it to 'most aesthetic' for clarity. Thanks for pointing that out.
- snek 8y agoYC's portfolio is staggering. Whatever they use to pick who to fund, they're doing it right.
- dsamarin 8y agoI wonder if it would be reasonable to match their investments albeit on a much smaller scale
- vasilipupkin 8y agoyou should make detailed ( already public, not suggesting nefarious data snooping ) info available on founder profiles. This would allow mining what kind of founders tend to do well vs average vs poorly
- majewsky 8y agoThat information would likely be useless because of survivorship bias.
- vasilipupkin 8y agono, it wouldn't be useless. Firstly, bias alone doesn't make information useless. Secondly, how is it survivor bias if the dataset also includes failed ycombinator companies?
- rococode 8y agoWell, TIL that the ACLU was in YC W17 thanks to the "top 100 tweet count" page. I was kind of surprised by that, are there other well-established organizations that have joined YC at a (very) late stage or are they unique?
- jedberg 8y agoQuora joined after they were at a nine figure valuation.
- hliyan 8y agoLooking at the top 100 funded companies: it's interesting that the majority are in the "Consumer", "Dev Tools" or "Healthcare" categories, and hardly any are in the "AI and ML" category.
- sonnyblarney 8y agoAI is an approach, not a market, so I suggest those who make bank from AI will be companies like consumer, healthcare etc..
- jacquesm 8y agoIt's a tool.
- onion2k 8y agoThe list is charting total funding. Older companies that have raised more rounds will be at the top.
- sonnyblarney 8y agoA lot of the big hits from quite a while ago. I wonder if there is a trend? How long as it been since a big, recognizable brand hit?
- Illniyar 8y agoThe footer reads: "Search experience powered by Algolia (W14). Icons powered by Font Awesome (S15). Hosted on Heroku (W08). The original (v1.0) YCDB was rated #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt, Sept 27, 2017. The original YCDB was made with Webflow (S13)." I suppose you can no make an entire website/product only using YC company tech. ha.
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- beaconstudios 8y agoit'd be interesting to see companies by investment size vs. exit value. I noticed when clicking around that one of the companies with the highest investment (Cruise) exited for less than its total investment and it got me thinking about which companies might exit for a profit/loss.