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Y Combinator Startups - Ranked Index
- hooande 18y agoBit of an incomplete list. I don't see any sites from the session that just finished. Not trying to be nitpicky or anything...you know the first thing we're all going to do is search for our company name.
- SwellJoe 18y agoBam! Take that, every other company that's below mine. And, well played, every other company that's above mine. You all totally suck, or are totally awesome, respectively.
- dbrush 18y agoOut of respect to myself I'd like to think I'm totally awesome... Out of respect to you... Bam! Really, how's it going?
- ptn 18y agopaulgraham.com ain't a startup...?
- alex_c 18y agoIt can still be an interesting point of reference.
- Kilimanjaro 18y agoThere is only one thing in common, all their names suck donkey balls, whether we accept it or not. When the top startup is "scribd" we really have a problem we are avoiding, or we don't know how to solve it. Shame on us...
- ericb 18y agoHave you tried to buy a domain name recently? It's tough stuff--even the misspellings are gone.
- Prrometheus 18y agothere's always .me
- thorax 18y agoThe best .me domains were squatted within 48 hours.
- TweedHeads 18y agoImagine 5 or 10 years down the line, tough times ahead for the web as we know it. Any ideas on how to fix this mess?
- ericb 18y agoThe fix is easy. Charge more, per year, for domain names. You'll never "cure" misspelled domains at this point, but the domain names at the fringe would be too expensive to hold on to as they wouldn't recoup their costs, which would force speculators to release more of them and improve overall availability.
- axod 18y agoCompletely agree. Or at least hold an auction for each domain name instead of giving them away for $10. As long as domain names are given out essentially free, they will be owned mainly by squatters trying to extort money for them. The price they are sold for initially should be the going market price for that name.
- mattmaroon 18y agoHow do you hold auctions for domain names? You can't force people to renew via auction, or Google will just steal the domain name from any site that catches on. You can't really start out with an auction price either, because any domain name not already taken clearly has 0 bidders, so the first one would win for $10. Auctions only make sense for domains that were already registered and whose owners want to sell them, and that's already done. Raise the price of domain names too high (say $1,000) and you stifle innovation. Keep it sufficiently low and squatters will still have any name worth keeping. It's a no-win situation. Though the current state of domain names sucks, it's kinda like democracy. It's the least bad option.
- ivankirigin 18y agoI think tipjoy's name rocks pretty hard, thank you very much. Wundrbar and Heroku are also great names
- dbrush 18y agoUnfortunately Y Combinator only gave us $15,000, not $50 billion so we redirect Yahoo.com or $150 billion to redirect Google.com...
- aneesh 18y agoFor some of these (Xobni, Loopt, perhaps RescueTime, and others), page views aren't a good metric to measure popularity.
- ivankirigin 18y agoHow often people check stats in rescuetime online is probably a good measure. Installs on computers is certainly a better measure, though harder to find. RescueTime could easily track how many computers have RescueTime running offline, but there is a bit of a selection bias there.
- tlrobinson 18y agoAre these rankings based on page views or unique visits or something else? Page views is a particularly poor metric for single-page JavaScript and Flash apps like Snipshot and 280 Slides.
- ashu 18y agoThey say Buxfer merged with Obopay. Would have been nice if they (or Obopay) had told _us_ about that as well.
- alex_c 18y agoAnother interesting metric would be incoming links. http://developer.yahoo.com/search/siteexplorer/V1/inlinkData.html http://developer.yahoo.com/search/siteexplorer/V1/inlinkData...
- immad 18y agoCheck out the rankedindex.com website itself. Its pretty cool. Would be good to be able to make private ranked indexes so that I can map out my competitors without the world knowing that i am watching them :)
- adrianwaj 18y agoYou can always use Google Trends for websites...but also see 'Hot Social': (an idea only) for comparing the number of bookmarks that any set of pages or websites has received from across a set of social bookmarking sites. http://younoodle.com/startups/hot_social http://younoodle.com/startups/hot_social