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Show HN: See what the best startups in the world are using
- qompiler 13y agoBut what does leanstack use? ;)
- pavanky 13y agoMany of these companies are not "startups" anymore. Fir example, Ebay ?
- suyash 13y agowell most of them are startups.
- mosselman 13y agoI usually make more sure than 'most of x is y' before I claim certain things. This is just hipsterism. Ebay, LinkedIn, Mozilla? Are you kidding? While in New York I went to some networking events where people said 'I work for a startup', 'How long have you guys been around?', '4 years', 'That doesn't really sound like a startup.', 'I know, but we FEEL like a startup.'... A*holes.
- colinhowe 13y agoWhen do you cease being a startup?
- rubinelli 13y agoWhen you are too big to pivot.
- coolsunglasses 13y agoWhen 0.1%-10% of equity is no longer in the cards for high value front-line (not VP) employees.
- wensing 13y agoWhen you shift from customer development to company-building. In other words, when you stop searching for, and instead start scaling, a business model. See also: http://steveblank.com/2012/03/05/search-versus-execute/ http://steveblank.com/2012/03/05/search-versus-execute/
- mosselman 13y agoAfter about 1-2 years. It is like saying that your car or house is new after 10 years. Or saying your shoes are new when they are 6 months old. The word is pretty self-explanatory, it is not that hard people.
- suyash 13y agoWell, 70% (which implies "most") or more of the companies listed on LeanStack are startups, I don't understand what your definition of Startup is.
- sspiff 13y agoHe said many. I agree with him: Intuit, Twitter, eBay, GitHub, Mozilla, Netflix and Atlassian are hardly startups. And this list is by no means exhaustive. Sure, many others may be startups, perhaps even most. But since when do we generalize away ~30% of some population. That's not very scientific. I can't think of many scenario's where this would be acceptable.
- sspiff 13y agoI agree. Calling Intuit a startup is like calling USPS an up and coming disrupting force in the mailing business.
- suyash 13y agoThis is great insight tool for marketers/business developers. Why did you choose to make this information public? How did you curate all the products/services of all these startups?
- austengary 13y agoVery nice. Throw some charts and graph up in this bitch, compare against time for popularity. I like data.
- jerrya 13y agoMash it up with Crunchbase (?) and see if there is any meaningful correlation between stack and funding rounds, stack and IPO, stack and aquihire, ...
- austengary 13y agoWould die to see this. OP get on it. In all seriousness, I would PAY to see this. I would pay extra if you add hosted graph widgets that empirically conclude the largest reciprocal relation between valuation and an IIS/MSSQL stack.
- suyash 13y agoGetting a lot of 503's, please fix the problem. Seems another website not being able to handle HN 1st page traffic.
- yonasb 13y agoSorry everyone. Just switched to nearlyfreespeech, thought they could handle it. Trying to work through it now.
- joewee 13y agoTry cloudflare?
- asmosoinio 13y agoWhat kind of things are you running there? I have some small not so important sites on NearlyFreeSpeech and have been happy -- would be nice to hear about their limits.
- dewey 13y agoJust FYI: http://leanstack.io/soundcloud/ http://leanstack.io/soundcloud/ "SoundCloud is the world’s leading"
- mflindell 13y agoSeems like its time to upgrade your own stack. Getting some 503 errors on some pages.
- markwakeford 13y agoinflux of HN users ?, I am getting the same. Refresh sometimes fixes it.
- joewee 13y agoI assumed you would pull the javascript embedded in the target sites along with DNS records to see what services they are using. But where do you get Anyperks data from? Are you manually adding this? [EDIT to make more PC]
- austengary 13y agoThey're manually adding this data.
- joewee 13y agoOK. But why did I get a down vote for that? My point is there are probably more optimal ways to add the data than manually gathering it. Nice effort though, of course.
- austengary 13y agoYou like to point fingers, eh? Is my name pg? I have no idea why. I will take a gander however and assume someone didn't like what was presumably a rhetorical and pretentious response. I do though agree. As to your first response, a quick right click will show that the site is made with Wordpress. The lack of formatting for the stack grids suggests it MAY be a plugin from which this is being retrieved; nevertheless with the choice of Wordpress, I am doubtful.
- joewee 13y agoDidn't mean to point a finger at you. Perhaps I don't understand the hn culture, is suggesting ways to do something more efficiently against the rules of Show HN? And if whoever keeps downvoting me wants to discourage me from making similar comments, how about explaining what is wrong with my comment? Instead of anonymously downvoting it.
- sedictor 13y agoJudging on lot of 503 errors I presume it's built on top of RoR and mongodb.
- suyash 13y agoBtw orignal post from the co-founder Yonas, seem to have no traffic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5243671 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5243671 (89 days ago)
- garazy 13y agoHey yonasb this is really cool, if you'd like to automate it a bit let me know we've got an API for this (api.builtwith.com) and we've got free attribution version that you could use.
- pyvek 13y agoYou might want to optimize those images (startup logos). Many of them are like 175 KB each.
- PavlovsCat 13y agoAnd pngslim turns some of them into 3-5 KB files without changing even a pixel... by the time I saw more than a white blank screen, it had already downloaded 2 megabytes, with no end in sight. That's just nuts. Everyone, always: If you make websites on a super fast connection, get a proxy (or VM) to simulate a slow connection...! You will learn a lot of things which will become easy habits quickly, and then you can turn off the proxy (turn it on again occasionally).
- olegp 13y agoWe are working on something similar at StartHQ. In addition to listing which services any given company uses, we've also been thinking of listing the technologies the services themselves use, e.g. https://starthq.com/apps/?technology=mongodb https://starthq.com/apps/?technology=mongodb Is this something you'd find useful?
- gearoidoc 13y agoInteresting yes. Useful.....not so much. The ability to view a company's stack changes over time might prove more useful. For example, what stack did Company X use to get to 10k users, 100k users etc. Given enough accurate data then it may be possible for a visitor to predict any performance bottlenecks that a technology may enforce over time and what technologies to use to mitigate said problems.
- daniel-levin 13y agoThis is pretty cool. There was a service a while back which seems to have died called weusethis. It also had interviews with the engineers at the startups detailing how they used their tech stacks.
- stevejalim 13y agoYour Dropbox link is broken (/dropboxc vs /dropbox)
- PavlovsCat 13y agoYou should run those .pngs through pngslim or similar :/
- moondowner 13y agoThis should be 'See what services the best startups in the world are using'.
- mef 13y agoYeah, the use of the word "stack" in the domain is a bit inaccurate.
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- arocks 13y agoExactly. It would be great if we can see which languages and other server side technologies they use.
- mcintyre1994 13y agowww.builtwith.com seems to be pretty accurate, probably a good starting point for that information.
- jaegerpicker 13y agoOf the four major sites that I've personally worked on, built with was wrong on them all. Two of the four I expected because it's using Javascript to hit a API and I think that would likely be much more difficult to guess correctly. What I didn't expect was that they would all be reported as using php when none of them do. Sure it's a really small sample set and I bet overall they are doing fine but I thought it worth mentioning.
- QuantumGuy 13y agoThanks for the heads up. It explains what I was seeing the other day.
- DigitalSea 13y ago
- sspiff 13y agoI'm sorry, but can we stop calling these startups? Companies like Twitter, eBay, GitHub, Mozilla, Netflix and Atlassian are past the startup stage by now. Many of them have been market leaders for years. Calling Intuit a startup isn't even stretching it anymore. They're 30 years old and have a revenue of over $4B. I realize HN thinks startups are sexy, but these have no business being labeled startups. If Intuit is a startup, what does it take to be a called a mature company?
- capex 13y agothese companies may not be startups, but they provide a useful info: what large tech companies are paying for.
- sspiff 13y agoI'm not disputing that this information may be useful. I'm just saying it's poorly labeled to look more attractive to certain types of visitors. Replacing "startups" in the title with "(technology) companies" would be more accurate, but probably reduce traffic.
- Amygaz 13y agoAnother proof of the disconnect.
- ankitml 13y agothe title is still misleading.
- onedev 13y agoI came in here just to say this. I'm sorry but on what planet is eBay a startup?
- detst 13y ago[Meta-comment warning] This comment is in the same category as the one PG talks about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920 I don't want to pick on you because there might be a place for your comment but it's not at the top; we need to stop voting these to that position (I'm not encouraging down-votes).
- why-el 13y agoThis is similar in spirit to weusethat.com (itself modeled after usesthis.com), which I really liked but they stopped updating the content mid-past-december. Hopefully leanstack continues.
- acjohnson55 13y agoCool info, but the presentation could use some help. The pageloads to view companies are slow, and once they show up, the grid of technologies is not the most thoughtful way to organize the data. It's not clear to me whether order has any meaning. There's got to be a better way to categorize the technologies used. Perhaps separating the core web request stack and from the support components would be a start. Some aggregate information across all of the companies would be useful as well.
- Goranek 13y agoWow Github is on Rackspace?
- lewisflude 13y agoI don't think your use of hamburger buttons is appropriate. Maybe a normal button would be better?
- rachelbythebay 13y agoGood people can make amazing stuff happen with any stack.
- PommeDeTerre 13y agoBut that's only part of the picture. It's also important to consider how much effort they need to expend to do so, and how many resources are consumed in the process. Truly good developers will know to discard poor tools in favor of better ones, and will be eager to do so. They don't have emotional attachments to, say, Ruby on Rails or MongoDB, or some other piece of software or service. Once the tool becomes insufficient, it's gone. In many cases, this is obvious right away, so the tool isn't even used in the first place.
- ParadisoShlee 13y agoNeeds more software.
- calinet6 13y agoPretty cool showcase-style site; I could easily see finding a service here that I didn't know everyone else was using. Every software company starting out really should look through these services and others like them, just see if there's something interesting. BTW -- Unicode fail at: "99designs is the world’s largest..." and other places. Check your page's UTF-8 support.
- n1c 13y agoNice; I started doing something similar at thestack.io but lost momentum.
- riteshpatel 13y agoThe 'Submit Your Startup' form doesn't validate because there's no way to say no to the 'Is this a cloud service intended for developers?' field (because it's a checkbox rather than radio buttons).
- moe 13y agoInteresting data but worst presentation ever. It's tabular data. Put it in a plain old HTML table so we can make sense of it.
- Zolomon 13y agoWould be interesting to see a recursive descent (probably wrong term, my swedish is getting in the way) of this; Twitter uses Pingdom, now I want to click on Pingdom to see what they use. Also, a graph with dependencies between these companies would be cool to see. Security companies might want to give the node with most edges a call or two.
- dakinsloss 13y agoIn the same vein, sign up at swRev.com to find out when we launch with a consumer reports for software. Should be this summer.
- salimmadjd 13y agoGreat idea, but kind of disappointed in the data. For a site called leanstack, I don't see any of the used stack. What DB they're using, which framework, etc. for example, I know Instagram uses python, redis and Postgres. Pinterest python/django but moving to flask and using MySQL. But I'm curious to know about other sites.
- Cryode 13y agoSame; I don't associate "stack" with cloud services / SaaS / etc. While I did learn about a few services I didn't know about that seem quite useful, it wasn't what I expected.
- markoa 13y agoI have a validation bug to report: "Is your service currently in Beta?" is a required field however there is no way to answer with no to that.
- whichdan 13y agoThe Squarespace link goes to /squarespace/c instead of /squarespacec, and incorrectly shows the profile for Cage.
- Pent 13y agoThere is a typo on the Braintree company information page. Right at the beginning.
- waltz 13y agoIt would be cool to check all the startups that use a certain tool.
- outside1234 13y agoIs there a site that talks about the technology in the stacks in use by startups instead of the cloud and SaaS platforms they are using?
- clement75009 13y agoMany comments here are focusing on negative stuff, so I wanted to say congrats, I find this website incredibly interesting and useful! I learned a lot browsing through it!
- ljd 13y agoI would love to see someone do a sort of trade deficit analysis to see how many products one of these companies uses versus how many other companies use them on this site. Obviously everyone will have far more export than import but perhaps the ratio would provide some interesting insight into how a company operates or how competitive their industry is. It would just be a fun fishing expeditions with the data.