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Hacker News Startups: Listing/Wiki of startups founded by HNers (not just YC)
- markbao 18y agoHi! A bit of time ago, a guy asked for a listing of everyone's startup on HN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=568951 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=568951 So here it is! On Sunday I spent a few hours hacking together a wiki thing in Rails from scratch. A few things that need to be fixed, but otherwise, hope it's useful for you. * Not restricted to YC. Any HN people can submit/edit. (this comment used to be about how our VPS exploded and started OOMing.)
- wensing 18y agoSo if the 'Add Startup' button isn't responding should I just hit refresh over and over again? ;)
- davidw 18y agoWow... what wiki and VPS and settings? That's pretty bad.
- markbao 18y agoI built the wiki from scratch. There was a rogue ruby script that was running for no apparent reason, taking up all the server resources.
- davidw 18y ago> I built the wiki from scratch. This is open source and doesn't consume a lot of resources: http://dedawiki.dedasys.com/ http://dedawiki.dedasys.com/ Your layout/css is definitely nicer, though. I'm not much of a UI guy. Also, tags or some sort of classification might be interesting...
- markbao 18y agoI thought about tags. I think it might be just better/easier/less cluttered to mention some keywords in the descriptions (which are searchable.) If HNStartups blows up enough, I'll add them. Thanks for the link to that wiki!
- rgrieselhuber 18y agoI like the wiki design. Different and very usable, even in its early stage.
- dbul 18y agoNice work. I'm glad to see someone went ahead with it. It would still make the front page of the site interesting to eventually tie it to karma.
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- aditya 18y agoNo, but then this is a list of startups founded by HNers :)
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- jgilliam 18y agoThis will be very useful. Thanks for setting it up.
- wensing 18y agoDon't send the like link to # -- it jumps you to the top of the page and you lose your place.
- markbao 18y agoThanks! Fixed.
- matthias 18y agoVery useful. Could you add a field for input of HN threads pertaining to each startup?
- markbao 18y agoI added "hnsearch" link to each listing that executes a SearchYC query on the startup name.
- falsestprophet 18y agoThe design is very elegant. Congratulations on a job well done. And thanks for this contribution to the community.
- pxlpshr 18y agoDefinitely agree, hope you continue expanding on this... overtime it would be cool to have a section based on stats and performance, perhaps associated to a few metrics like link-backs in google, press on blogs, tweets, etc.
- falsestprophet 18y agoAnd one day: market capitalization
- streety 18y agoIt might just be me but I didn't realise that clicking on the like link was a vote for that startup. An up arrow or a plus sign might be more clear.
- knightinblue 18y agoBut the 'like' tag has numbers in parentheses. People should be immediately able to see that it's a kind of voting. Now if there was a like/dislike system in play, well that's different.
- streety 18y ago'People' are stupid. Sorry if I/we disappoint.
- hwork 18y agoIf you want to slurp in some more data about the companies already in there, you can use the CrunchBase API: http://groups.google.com/group/crunchbase-api http://groups.google.com/group/crunchbase-api.
- mapwow 18y agodon't forget the CSRF/XSRF protection... http://hnstartups.com/startup/64/like http://hnstartups.com/startup/64/like
- Raphael 18y agoDamn it. Don't click this link unless you want to vote for his startup! Or vote for mine. http://hnstartups.com/startup/100/like http://hnstartups.com/startup/100/like
- tlrobinson 18y agoMap WoW is already #2 due to your little stunt :) ... but it's much worse than that... while true; do curl http://hnstartups.com/startup/X/like done I suggest you fix both the CRSF and multiple voting, and reset the "like" counts :)
- gojomo 18y agoNicely done! Ideas in no particular order: Have a master index page, with just startup names, for seeing overall size of wiki and one-click navigation to any one page. Offer browsing to the ordered list starting at letters other than 'A'. Make URLs guessable (and thus also SEO-friendly). Improve disclaimer that it's any HN user startup, not officially YC-related -- there's a small risk of confusion, better to be ahead of it.
- markbao 18y agoGreat ideas, Gordon. Master index page is an interesting idea. Not sure about how useful it might be, since there's already search, but I'll do that soon. Edit: done. The alphabetical list is ordered with pagination — do you mean have links A B C, etc. to jump? Guessable/pretty URLs are on my list. Just didn't get around to it :) and I tried to have a decent nonobstructing disclaimer on the side, but maybe it needs a bit of a boost :) Cheers and thanks! Mark
- gojomo 18y agoA master name index would let viewers sense the size of the set moreso than a reported number; see patterns in names; discover interesting names they wouldn't know to search for (and might not page 'next, next, next' to find). Such a view could also grow into a 'dynamic screener' -- one click to filter view by 'official YC', geo-location, launched-yet, etc. Yes -- I meant quick-jumps to letters. But that is really only interesting as a way to randomly browse without blind-jumps into the page numbers. Again, nice job!
- markbao 18y agoQuick jumps might take a bit of time. For now, though: http://hnstartups.com/list http://hnstartups.com/list
- gojomo 18y agoAnd at 7pm PT, with 199 startups listed, the surprise winning opening-syllable is... "Scrib"/"Skrib", with 5: Scribd, Scribnia, Scribular, Skribbls, and Skribit. "Feed" is a close second at 4: Feedback Army, FeedFlix, Feedity, and Feedscrub. Then it's a 6-way tie at 2 each: Big-, Drop-, Hot-, Res(cue)-, Start-, and Where-.
- diN0bot 18y agoi can't submit a comment on the HNers page. i don't use disqus. i keep getting an alert about "username must contain 3 characters" even though i've typed my full diN0bot username.
- adrianwaj 18y agoCan you have: for sale, an optional price, when it was launched, current number of employees/people Ideally there would be some verification if such data was added, whereby the user would need to link to HNStartups from their profile and also their site.
- dhimes 18y agoMaybe grab it from a pad-like file on the site- so users can update.
- vaksel 18y agoI think it'll look much better if you have everything on a single page, and make it more condensed: i.e. something like <<<Name + link to site>>> [HNusernamelink] [HNSearch] [[[DESCRIPTION]]]]
- jack7890 18y agoBeautifully done. Simple, elegant, and highly useful website.
- rrival 18y agoNot that it applies to me but what about TechStars / etc colored indicators?
- davidw 18y agoAnother place you can list your startup: your profile page on HN. Way too many people leave that empty, with no URL, no contact information, "no nothin'".
- webwright 18y agoNice work. Would love a location field. Use case: I live in Seattle. I would be interested to see other HN startups in Seattle. It'd also be academically interesting to see distribution.
- jonallanharper 18y agoGood call. Location would be excellent.
- adrianwaj 18y agoI'd like to see an RSS feed at some point, would be great.
- adrianwaj 18y agoThe site can be SPAMMed. It's good start though. I could claim Google as my startup, and someone could claim mine under anyone's username.
- adrianwaj 18y agoAlso, you could setup a new HN username and post to the site in the same minute.
- netsp 18y agoHow do you keep this a Listing/Wiki of HN startups as opposed to a Listing/Wiki of hnstartups?
- JeffL 18y agoNice, but adding a startup doesn't work in Chrome. =)
- showerst 18y agoYou may want to add rel="nofollow" to your outgoing links, just to discourage people from spamming it for a free link.
- BerislavLopac 18y agoThis one is my favorite: http://hnstartups.com/startup/239 http://hnstartups.com/startup/239 :)
- jamroom 18y agoWe've been in business for 6 years - can I still be a "startup"?
- vorador 18y agoBtw, why all of those startups are web sites ? Ain't there anybody who sells desktop applications ?