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Re: Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase

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Post by ptman »

adrianwaj wrote: post #48

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…

Umm, what about machine readable JSON in .well-known instead of yet another txt in root

Re: Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase

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Post by networked »

What is your content/data license? I don't see anything about this on the site. For something to feel like a community wiki, the community needs to co-own the content and be able to fork. If you think the content is in the public domain because of AI, applying a license like CC BY or CC BY-SA won't hurt, but the content is copyrighted, not applying a license will. (This isn't legal advice.) See "WP:CRANDO" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights#Contribut...) for how Wikipedia does it.

Re: Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase

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Post by adrianwaj »

ptman wrote: post #63
adrianwaj wrote: post #48

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…

Umm, what about machine readable JSON in .well-known instead of yet another txt in root

That's a great idea. I also like the idea of having a changelog in there too, and key screenshots. Really, WP plugin pages have a great range of info as a guide: eg https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/#developers https://tablepress.org/info/#changelog

Re: Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase

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Post by KomoD »

shpran wrote: post #24
CharlesW wrote: post #5

I expected the VERIFIED badges to link to some sort of provenance information. That seems like a must, otherwise (given the "assume everything's incorrect" disclaimers) I'm not sure why one would take that badge seriously.

I got the agents to cite sources, there's a bug with fetching the urls from the DB, the way it should work is when you hit verified it leads you to the source, working on fixing it now. Also I will try to add an agent ledger tab soon, that shows exactly what the agents were doing.

> I got the agents to cite sources, there's a bug with fetching the urls from the DB, the way it should work is when you hit verified it leads you to the source

I expect "verified" to mean that either you or someone else has confirmed it, not just that an LLM was asked for one.

Re: Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase

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Post by shpran »

lowkey_ wrote: post #56

Looks super cool and love the idea! 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.

thanks! I tried writing a program where if it can't find the runway online, then it tries to guess by using other values, clerk is not really in risk of ever running out of money, and so it juste ended up outputting a really high value, I just updated it so if runway is calculated to be above 20 months+ it just says not at risk
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