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Show HN: A Map of All YC Companies (5,300 Startups by Batch and Location)
- boredumb 1y agoWho knew the rural town of Remote, Oregon was such a startup hub these days.
- leonagano 1y agoI built this map that shows every YCombinator company worldwide (5,300+ and counting). You can explore by batch, country, or city. I made this because I was curious about where YC founders are concentrated, and I wanted a more visual way to browse them. • The map is powered by FoundersAround, a side project where I explore data about founders/startups • You can filter by batch or region • Clicking on a cluster shows all companies on it • Clicking a company shows basic details (logo, description, website, etc)
- ProllyInfamous 1y agoLove that all the WFH jobs land in some tiny little West Coast town named Remote, California, that clearly couldn't support 83 yCombs.
- aaa_2006 1y agoThis is really cool. A big YC advantage is instant access to 5,000 plus peer companies as warm leads. That built in network makes early cross selling much easier than starting cold.
- soared 1y agoDoesn’t seem to work on mobile iOS - clicking an icon of “2” doesn’t open anything, and then zooming back out the icons didn’t reload for the zoomed out area
- blinkers 1y agoDid you scrape YC startup directory for this?
- ecshafer 1y agoOne annoyance with this is all of the NY, USA companies that don't explicitly say NYC end up in Syracuse.
- BugsJustFindMe 1y agoThe source information is inaccurate though, so take it with a grain of salt. I spot checked a few companies that have moved, and it shows their original locations from a few years ago, not their current locations.
- leonagano 1y agoWould be nice to know which ones, as the data comes from YC website
- BugsJustFindMe 1y agoI agree, it would. Well, I'll tell you what. Given that you're trying to sell sponsored ads, you can offer to pay me for the information. Or you can do the legwork on cleaning it up.
- leonagano 1y agoI just fixed
- seanp2k2 1y agoSoooo basically half of them are in SF, south of Pine St, east of Webster, north of 16th, west of the Powell St BART station AKA Mission Dolores / SOMA / Hayes Valley / Van Ness.
- leonagano 1y agoForgot to add on the website, but location is city-wide. The markers are at random addresses in the city
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- codingdave 1y agoThe data is inaccurate, the map is a vibe-coded mess, and the prompting to buy ad space on the map makes this look like a low-effort cash grab. Too bad, really... the idea of seeing where YC companies have landed showed some promise.
- MarcelOlsz 1y agoThe UFO is cute but it's not $350 cute.
- MangoToupe 1y agoIt's kind of funny: a human couldn't add this many bugs if they tried to.
- serial_dev 1y agoIdea is interesting. It looked great… until you actually tried to actually use the web app. Then nothing worked.
- onion2k 1y agoThis is a challenge, right?
- h1fra 1y agoNice, but unfortunately, lots of companies relocate to the US, e.g, Algolia is shown in SF, but it's a French company. It would be nice to have by founders' origin
- deadbabe 1y agoOrigins don’t matter, it’s a vanity metric. You can’t control where you originate from so that’s not actionable data. What matters more is seeing where companies are ultimately establishing themselves.
- h1fra 1y agoYeah but if you only sample YC, then ofc everybody ends up in SF, which is also a vanity metric because all of them are actually located in Delaware
- heod749 1y ago> Algolia is shown in SF, but it's a French company. It would be nice to have by founders' origin Good idea. It will encourage French founders to leave France and move to the US.
- Muromec 1y agoThat's a bit inaccurate too, because your r&d and sales could be in two different places. Raising money in US, selling in Western Europe or US and having R&D in Eastern Europe is a thing
- onion2k 1y agoThat's just a measure of where is most friendly to founding a company. Either that or there's something in the water in Delaware...
- deadbabe 1y agoGod damn, what else would it be a measure of? Wherever the weather is comfy?
- diego_moita 1y agoThis site crashes Firefox.
- whatamidoingyo 1y agoIt didn't crash Firefox for me.
- Kiran_p 1y agoHow did you pinpoint the exact location?
- dschep 1y agoSeeing as several are in entirely the wrong city, one is in the Tidal Basin in DC, another on the National Mall.. they clearly don't.
- dschep 1y agoThe geocoding needs some work. There are 4 companies indicated as being located in Richmond, Virginia. At least two of them are clearly in Richmond, California. I suspect all of them are in CA.
- mceoin 1y agoAs naive as this may sound, when I first moved to America and was deciding where to base myself, I first had to learn that there was a difference between Silicon Valley (i.e. Peninsula / South Bay) and San Francisco. From there, San Francisco looks quite small, but many neighborhoods are worlds away from the action - Outer Richmond is not the density of networks you are looking for, for example (better than rest of world, suboptimal for SF). Co-locating close to the center of these dense founder networks is the best way maximize luck and opportunity. This map isn't perfect, but it makes it pretty obvious where you should move if you're interested in startups. Career wise, moving to "the center of the network" is still the best decision I ever made.
- thaack 1y agoEquipmentShare is located in Columbia, MO not Columbia, SC.
- guywithahat 1y agoIgnoring the fact the YC data is often out of date, I think this is really cool, and it speaks to trends in the industry. In particular, I'm surprised how few YC companies end up in Austin or Seattle, which are traditionally thought of as top-tier tech cities. It looks like in recent batches more companies are headed to Austin though, which makes sense. Humorously there are 83 companies in Remote, OR, which I somehow doubt
- msdrigg 1y ago3 companies in columbia sc but further investigation yields columbia md for 2 and columbia mo for the third. So state data seems pretty non-existent
- jedberg 1y agoFYI, clicking on a number to zoom in, and then zooming back out, makes all the numbers disappear.
- leonagano 1y agoSo, then, on the list, there's a button "Show All Companies", if you click, all numbers appear again
- mxpxrocks10 1y agolooks cool - would be nice if it could view by city.
- ProofHouse 1y agoHard to believe not a 1 showed up in LA for me
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