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I'm not sure I'd call it an alternative to Crunchbase, I don't really see what is more "modern" about it either I use Crunchbase for their data, such as locati

by KomoD 3y ago

I'm not sure I'd call it an alternative to Crunchbase, I don't really see what is more "modern" about it either I use Crunchbase for their data, such as location, employees, details regarding funding or their tech... your site doesn't seem to have any of that, it's just a brief description with a link to their website It's fine as just a basic directory though

lukasfoisy 3y ago
Fair point. More detailed profiles and news/events are on the radar, I'm trying to figure out the best way to programmatically fetch those for each startup.
- maxwell 3y ago
  Nice. Looks like the frontend is Next on Vercel? Curious to hear more about your stack for this if you want to share.
pnw 3y ago
I use Crunchbase for the same purpose but it’s become increasingly paywalled. I notice that the funding details are now entirely behind the paywall.
- dumbfounder 3y ago
  But they are so terrible keeping it up to date. I used it last year and it was maddening how many funding events they missed, I think a full time intern could do a better job of keeping up with things. I don't get it, surely they have enough money to hire someone to keep up with things better?
  - pnw 3y ago
    I thought it was mostly user contributed?
Whiteshadow12 3y ago
I doubt we would have clicked on it if they called it a Modern Alternative to Yahoo! Directory. You are correct though. Can you allow people to add sites they found, for example adding something like Hydra or Citus would require you to know about them. This is perfect though, cause I'm always finding fascinating tools online that I either favorite on hn or star on Github but not all the time there's also a rust serverless company that I can't recall the name of, which fits your use case nicely.
codegeek 3y ago
Yea clickbait title. Nothing to do with what Crunchbase does. It is just a listing of products with a screenshot. Even if the intent is to be a better crunchbase, it is far too early and honestly a low quality post at the moment.

by KomoD 3y ago

lukasfoisy 3y ago

Fair point. More detailed profiles and news/events are on the radar, I'm trying to figure out the best way to programmatically fetch those for each startup.

maxwell 3y ago
Nice. Looks like the frontend is Next on Vercel? Curious to hear more about your stack for this if you want to share.

pnw 3y ago

I use Crunchbase for the same purpose but it’s become increasingly paywalled. I notice that the funding details are now entirely behind the paywall.

dumbfounder 3y ago
But they are so terrible keeping it up to date. I used it last year and it was maddening how many funding events they missed, I think a full time intern could do a better job of keeping up with things. I don't get it, surely they have enough money to hire someone to keep up with things better?
- pnw 3y ago
  I thought it was mostly user contributed?

Whiteshadow12 3y ago

I doubt we would have clicked on it if they called it a Modern Alternative to Yahoo! Directory. You are correct though. Can you allow people to add sites they found, for example adding something like Hydra or Citus would require you to know about them. This is perfect though, cause I'm always finding fascinating tools online that I either favorite on hn or star on Github but not all the time there's also a rust serverless company that I can't recall the name of, which fits your use case nicely.

codegeek 3y ago

Yea clickbait title. Nothing to do with what Crunchbase does. It is just a listing of products with a screenshot. Even if the intent is to be a better crunchbase, it is far too early and honestly a low quality post at the moment.