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Hey everyone, Josh here, one of the creators of this report. I posted a while back about how I built and sold my show HN trend-spotting tool, Exploding Topics, in 6 months. Since i…

Fantastic Marie! The website is very sleek + nice, and the community itself looks awesome.

Hi everyone, I used the YC top companies list for 2019 as a source for the company names to use ( https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/ ). Then I’ve ranked them by Google searc…

Ahh - thank you!

Being British I always assumed it means something like "the X Factor" does and so "Y Combinator" refers to the Y factor you need to "combinate" for success. But this can't be right…

Yeah you're spot on with those data limitations. I think the easiest solution would be to just store the more recent, granular data and accumulate that over time. But now way to ge…

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