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Show HN: I made a heatmap of 3400 VCs who are open to cold emails
- spiralcoaster 4mo agoYou have some kind of bias in the dataset or the visualization. It's showing places in "Boston" to be south east of the city in a completely different location.
- syndacks 4mo agoJamaica Bay has _all_ the VCs in NYC!
- west_subject 4mo agoplease dont kill me, it's the package i'm using. i'll use a better one when i get the time.
- west_subject 4mo agoit's the mapcn package i'm using. after i plotted 300 points, the spacing got fucked up. just the spacing tho. everything else works.
- victorbjorklund 4mo agoLink does not work
- west_subject 4mo agohttps://apparent.social/heat-map https://apparent.social/heat-map sorry if you had some trouble opening it up.
- ngsevers 4mo agoI’m still getting DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN for apparent.social from Thailand. Might be a DNS propagation or regional DNS issue?
- high_byte 4mo agowould be nice to be able to simply get the list instead of having an ominous heatmap
- west_subject 4mo agoI will make it happen tonight. keep in touch.
- pkoird 4mo agoDoes the post explain how the data was obtained? Or is it simply some kind of scraped list to get attention?
- west_subject 4mo agoi collected and curated it over the months. Also, what attention? this is free for all. always will be.
- pkoird 4mo agoi'm sorry, I meant attention of the project (as in surfacing it). It'd be worth specifying your methodology somewhere in the page. That is arguably an important piece of important.
- west_subject 4mo agoduly noted. I agree it's worth specifying the methodology.
- Ecco 4mo agoFor some reason all the datapoints seems to be shifted a few miles south-west.
- west_subject 4mo agoi think the mapcn package i'm using. i think it's best if change it, honestly. it got mangled up, when i started plotting a certain number of pins.
- mushufasa 4mo agoMarc Andreessen: "The warm intro is the first test."
- west_subject 4mo agowell, you might find someone on this list, who might be connected to a GP at a16z. cant discount that idea.
- sixhobbits 4mo agoAnd here's a similar list of 3400 VCs who suddenly find themselves a lot less open to cold email https://apparent.social/heat-map https://apparent.social/heat-map
- west_subject 4mo agoi dont think so tbh. they willingly made their emails open to the public. they have a sourcing problem for all we know
- baddash 4mo agoall the chicago ones are swimming out in lake michigan
- irishcoffee 4mo agoAll the Annapolis ones must be on their yachts in the bay
- west_subject 4mo agolmaooo
- west_subject 4mo agoit's the map package that i'm using. it's they got mangled up.
- west_subject 4mo agoLMAO yes, so are the bay area ones. I used mapcn ,which is a free tool to make those pins. it kinda got mangled up in the process.
- baddash 4mo agoxD i think it's a cool tool though
- comrade1234 4mo agoI will fund this!
- west_subject 4mo agoreach out comrade. happy to talk. hello@apparent.social
- west_subject 4mo agowhere's the email comrade??lmao
- philippz 4mo agogreat, this helps no one
- west_subject 4mo agowell, this helps people who're having trouble finding out public facing email addresses of investors at various VC firms. thought i'd make it easier for founders to reach out to GPs and angels who'd wanna talk.
- philippz 4mo agoyeah but all you'll cause with this is spam and they open doors will close. let founder do the work and figure it out themselves.
- west_subject 4mo agothat's a very one dimensional way of looking at it. investors made it public, knowing full well that they'd get a bunch of emails. that's what they want too.
- AndrewKemendo 4mo agoWere previously open to cold emails
- west_subject 4mo agowell, this solves their biggest problem of sourcing newer startups. which is the whole reason they made their emails public. they're def open to newer ideas and startups that they could fund.
- Danii27 4mo ago[flagged]