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Startup Ranking
- hoopism 11y agoWas very disappointed when I realized that I had misread the URL... This is not in fact a Startup Pranking website as I had thought.
- runj__ 11y agoSame thing here, "Oh man, I can't wait to send them a million new fake visitors!" -Fake techcruch article generator -Automated fake VC calls
- simonmales 11y agoAla Expertsexchange.com
- rbanffy 11y agoIt's a radical and irreversible procedure. You should go to an expert.
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- gallerytungsten 11y agoI was about to post the exact same thought. Obviously, there is a gem of an idea here. Who will MVP the Startup Pranking website first?
- rbanffy 11y agoCount me in.
- wonders_cease 11y agoDitto - I read it as Start Pranking at first and was terribly disappointed on looking at the website.
- rainings 11y agohaha! same thing happened to me. What a failed domain name!
- luke2 11y agoI read it as "start-u-pranking", actually.
- CPLX 11y agoMe too. As in "Gentlemens! Start you pranking!" read in a Borat accent.
- jimmydddd 11y agoMaybe getting us all to go to the site was the prank? Well played!
- kbart 11y agoHahah, only after reading your comment I've realised my mistake too.
- amelius 11y agoCan mailchimp be considered a startup still? Also, why can't we just look at the Alexa stats for this?
- ishansharma 11y agoNot sure about MailChimp but Alexa is not very accurate when it comes to traffic data.
- kozak 11y agoThe URL seems like it has something to do with pranking :)
- dlsym 11y agoI first thought this was some site about pranking startups...
- holifuk 11y agoWanted to see some clever startup pranks. Disappointed.
- holifuk 11y agoStartup RANK = boring. Startup PRANK = fun. Needless to say I was disappointed.
- bryanrasmussen 11y agostartu Prank - silly startup name for startup helping you to organize your pranking activities.
- mavromatis 11y agoSeeing these comments I think website address does matter in some cases.
- afandian 11y agohttp://listverse.com/2007/08/01/top-10-silly-website-names/ http://listverse.com/2007/08/01/top-10-silly-website-names/
- chirau 11y agoI have no qualms with the address, it says exactly what the site does. Perhaps people should read thoroughly. What I have qualms with though, is that you got my country flag wrong. You put a Zambian flag on Zimbabwe.
- afandian 11y agoI think it's due to the fact that the human brain does not work linearly, like a lexer. It recognises patterns of letters. And once you've seen the word 'pranker', it's hard to un-see. I think it's a particular problem with web addresses because you know there will be several words joined together without spaces, so you're already starting by trying to identify clumps rather than reading words. Plus web addresses often contain made-up words.
- chirau 11y agoOr it could just be that these days people just scheme through text. Just reading from left to right, you'd auto complete 'startup' and honestly without another 'p' ranker auto completes itself too. Which is why I am inclined to think that people are just scheming through words now.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoThe brain does not read linearly from left to right, letter by letter. Unless you're 3 years old, you see a word and parse - or rather, pattern-match - it as a whole. And the matches depend heavily on whatever is in your head (that's how context and anchoring work). I too, initially, read it as "startup pranking", even though there's only one "p" in the domain name.
- afandian 11y agoI'm not sure that 'scheme' is 100% the word you meant to use (perhaps you meant 'skim'?). People don't read from left to right. The same way that they don't press individual letters on the keyboard (think about it, if you're typing at 100 WPM you can't think of every single individual character at that speed). A perfect example is Spritz. Try this. I managed to comprehend at 700 WPM. No way my eyes could move at that speed. It works because of pattern matching. http://www.spritzinc.com/test/#/ http://www.spritzinc.com/test/#/
- mpdehaan2 11y agoIs this intended to be searchable? It appears it only shows the top few. Seeing the whole list and offering filtering options might make it a better tool for comparing social uptake and similar things.
- charlieegan3 11y agohttp://www.startupranking.com/nginx http://www.startupranking.com/nginx is a startup?
- dangrossman 11y agoNginx Inc. is a 4-year-old Bay Area tech company that's raised $33 million in 3 funding rounds. Sounds like a typical SV startup to me.
- charlieegan3 11y agoLearn something new every day :)
- joosters 11y ago...Because Klout was such a wildly-popular success?
- mtbcoder 11y agoBased on the data points used, doesn't this just simply favor startups that are more adept at SEO/SEM and social media?
- pelf 11y agohttp://www.startupranking.com/startupranking http://www.startupranking.com/startupranking
- dalek2point3 11y agovery basic question. where does the list of startups come from and how do you know what country a startup belongs to? making a list like this is harder than you think, so im curious to hear how these guys address it.
- nitishmd 11y agoWow India comes right after US under countries, it would be interesting to see what the startup growth has been in the past two years
- snake_plissken 11y agoHeh it really says something about the current macro tech environment when that URL is misread and then everyone is actually disappointed when the site loads and it's not about startup idea pranks.
- cypher_glyph 11y agoStart upranking what? Is this for a game?
- paulhodge 11y agoThinkGeek is ranked higher than AirBnb. Sounds legit!
- robotnoises 11y agoIt's cool that you can put an aircraft into space and still be categorized as a startup.
- steego 11y agoI'd much rather talk about startup pranking. I worked at a startup that had a shared bathroom with a keypad on it. Somebody had the brilliant idea to tell the new guy the bathroom code was a 16 digit number. It worked because the only respected the last 4 digits to match the passcode. Everybody memorized the 16 digit code and made sure they entered it in when going to the bathroom when the new guy was around. The prank went on long enough that people wanted to see how long they could keep it going. It was eventually spoiled when someone from the neighboring company witnessed the new guy entering the 16 digit code and pointed out the code was only 4 digits. As this was happening, it was witnessed by one of the architects and his cry of "NOOOOOOOOOOOO" could be heard throughout the floor.
- TheLoneWolfling 11y agoLet's see: Relatively harmless? Check. Relatively undemeaning? Check. Non-trivial amount of effort? Check. Decent prank? Check.
- limeyx 11y agoseems a bit mean to me honestly ... i mean I guess most people would raise an eyebrow at a 16-digit code but still ... Not that nice of a way to say "Welcome to the team"
- TheLoneWolfling 11y agoYou'll notice I said "relatively" twice there. I still think it's iffy... but as pranks go it's decent.