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Re: Show HN: Founderkit – Startup tool recommendations from 1,000 YC founders

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Is there any reason why there isn't a single security utility, aside from password managers on this list? It seems that security is an afterthought at most startups.

People have requested it. Only now are there a handful of security service startups as opposed to good ole devops service providers.

We split categories when we get enough companies to support it. Let me know if you have a list and I'll happily get this in there, I'd love to have more security products as well.

Re: Show HN: Founderkit – Startup tool recommendations from 1,000 YC founders

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post #26

The recommendation site I wanted to have was http://stackparts.com/ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2993371 ) but nothing became of it... Maybe there are just too many options nowadays for a visualization of possible stacks to be useful. cc @joshu

This is a great idea. I think it can be done

Re: Show HN: Founderkit – Startup tool recommendations from 1,000 YC founders

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Once again, a tool recommendation site that doesn't do anything different or unique than what's been done or what's out there now. This is just like BestVendor.com (site was sold a few years ago, but more of an acquihire). There are tons of these types of review sites. http://www.stacklist.com/ https://startupresources.io/ https://stackshare.io/ And they're all pretty much the same. They're mostly just a list of tool…

Like Wirecutter for Saas.

Re: Show HN: Founderkit – Startup tool recommendations from 1,000 YC founders

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When I need a tool I check Zapier first. Why? Because I know I can easily integrate with other systems and because I get almost the full lay of the land.

That said... without knowing the size of the user base, how much cash these companies have, etc. whose to say even 1/2 of them will be around 5 years. These tools need to be used and integrated with great caution.

Re: Show HN: Founderkit – Startup tool recommendations from 1,000 YC founders

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This is obviously modeled after Product Hunt with similar rating/review systems, and suffers from the same issues regarding rating/review quality. Despite the emphasis on "unbiased" reviews, the reviews/comments (example: https://founderkit.com/biz/slack ) boil down to "I used it and it's good" which doesn't help anyone , and is essentially a manifestation of confirmation bias and makes the entire thing a popularity…

There's a surprising number of very insightful reviews. Founders are busy, so short reviews are still incredible signal compared to everything else out there. We're totally open to suggestions. This is a huge problem for founders, one that wastes days, weeks, or months of indecision or rework.

You say founders are busy then you say they're busy letting fairly mundane decisions on what online services to use waste days, weeks or months.

Why would someone who's burning runway like that make a good customer? It sounds like you've honed in on the failed startups and made an entertainment product for them.

How do you get a piece of their VC pie before they close up?

Re: Show HN: Founderkit – Startup tool recommendations from 1,000 YC founders

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Once again, a tool recommendation site that doesn't do anything different or unique than what's been done or what's out there now. This is just like BestVendor.com (site was sold a few years ago, but more of an acquihire). There are tons of these types of review sites. http://www.stacklist.com/ https://startupresources.io/ https://stackshare.io/ And they're all pretty much the same. They're mostly just a list of tool…

It would be nice to see a review site modeled after Consumer Reports. They tend to compare, with a well defined criteria, products in a category. It's a professional unbiased review system rather than a crowdsourced low value review system.

Re: Show HN: Founderkit – Startup tool recommendations from 1,000 YC founders

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Once again, a tool recommendation site that doesn't do anything different or unique than what's been done or what's out there now. This is just like BestVendor.com (site was sold a few years ago, but more of an acquihire). There are tons of these types of review sites. http://www.stacklist.com/ https://startupresources.io/ https://stackshare.io/ And they're all pretty much the same. They're mostly just a list of tool…

It would be nice to see a review site modeled after Consumer Reports. They tend to compare, with a well defined criteria, products in a category. It's a professional unbiased review system rather than a crowdsourced low value review system.

This is along the lines of what I'm thinking.
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