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Probably a good idea to just use CrunchBase's numbers until you have a plan for doing it yourself.
acessing crunchbase even if its the free version with AI agents is illegal since they have a paid API, so I need to manually get it, which is fine for now, but I eventually need to improve the pipeline.
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Sounds good! its just I used up most of my API key limits in development, and I'm keeping some so I can run improvement pipelines or fix errors, so il batch the YC companies day by day, there's 5000 companies, so il do about 800 each day for 5-6 days.
Wait, why would you use (tokens?) on a routine scrape job? Just make a generic parser (vibe-coded or by hand, I don’t think it'll be that hard), then run it across the company list. Or are you talking about some other API?
How about adding some stats to your landing page?
It's a good idea. Why not ask startups to upload a startup.txt (as opposed to robots.txt) to their web root and collect from that? Pre-filled text forms can be downloaded. Also, as with CB, collect data on individuals through a similar opt-in. Enable users to ping your site when it's ready to collect. You could have a "traction" stat and ask for a JS snippet be installed on homepages or a set of pages. Old school and…
https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/overview/auth/oauth
Would be a good way to have others absorb some of your inference limits and fill in missing data that they need. A call to action on a blank search would be a great flow.
I saw Clerk and noticed that it says that they have verified 250 months runway. Maybe true but sounds crazy high.
Maybe if there's a specific article a verification is attributed to, you could add it being cited?
Anyways thanks for making this.
It's a good idea. Why not ask startups to upload a startup.txt (as opposed to robots.txt) to their web root and collect from that? Pre-filled text forms can be downloaded. Also, as with CB, collect data on individuals through a similar opt-in. Enable users to ping your site when it's ready to collect. You could have a "traction" stat and ask for a JS snippet be installed on homepages or a set of pages. Old school and…
Thanks, this is all really interesting feedback, I'm mostly free right now, so il definitely try to roll out these changes soon. probably will announce them on website blog.
I think it's important to attach a bunch of people to any given startup (you've already done it.) Going forward, I'd expect more startups to behave like bands. Any 1 person can be attached to a number of bands, but eventually one of these bands will make it big and the members will get locked-in. Staff also bring users, credibility and hence traction early on.
"If you want something done, ask a busy person."
Build trust by: truly making this a public good, by open sourcing it. Be the maitnainer. Data dump every week as a zipball/tarball. These will ensure you can't rugpull.
With this trust, offer an extension (open source of course) to all, which whever a user goes through crunchbase, traxn, etc, sends any factual data (hence non-copyrightable) to you. If you gained trust, I would also do this.
You get the right to be a maintainer, and figure out if you also want to make a business with it on top.
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Wait, why would you use (tokens?) on a routine scrape job? Just make a generic parser (vibe-coded or by hand, I don’t think it'll be that hard), then run it across the company list. Or are you talking about some other API?
no scraping the yc startups is easy, I've already done that, its just writing and researching the actual profiles uses an internal tool (built into the website,I can trigger it from an admin dashboard) which uses tokens.