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Top Technologies Used By YC Companies
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#12What baffles me is how this site users themselves seem to dislike PHP a lot, yet it's the most used language of these companies... So why the hate?
Maybe its because the YC founders are not representative of HN's readers. If so, why that's the case could make for interesting discussion.
Yeah - I noticed the same thing with Python / Django being so poorly represented - seems like there's an disproportionate number of Python related posts and discussions on HN - but it could just be my internal bias as a Ruby guy :)
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#13Great having statistics like this, but for most of the statistics the pie chart is rubbish.
It only makes sense in the case where the companies really only uses one of the technologies posible.
Bar graphs would have been better.
EDIT: Seems like I need to refresh the comments before i post my own, archangel_one beat me to it.
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#14The pie charts seem like an odd way of counting some of these; for example, one site could use Facebook Like, Google +1 and a Tweet button all at once, but showing them as slices in a pie chart implies to me that the options are mutually exclusive.
The pie charts also don't match the percentages in the tables. Took me a second to notice, but the pie chart shows the relative percentage of usage by sites using a particular category, while the table shows % sties out of total # of sites.
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#15What baffles me is how this site users themselves seem to dislike PHP a lot, yet it's the most used language of these companies... So why the hate?
A couple reasons come to mind: - PHP might be the most practical choice for some of these companies. The founder or lead tech might be most proficient in PHP for real-world applications (even if he adores Python or Ruby). - PHP might be the language that everyone on the team knows so they choose it to keep everyone equally involved in the production of the site. - The people commenting on HN aren't necessarily people…
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Re: Top Technologies Used By YC Companies
#16Interesting to see which companies are savvy enough to sign up for Google's free webmaster tools: http://trends.builtwith.com/tech-usage/Y-Combinator/Google-W...
The list includes Dropbox, Scribd, WePay, OMGPOP, Loopt, and Weebly, but a lot of sites are missing out on potentially useful information--only 18% of 136 sites were detected as signed up with webmaster tools.
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#17I thought it was very telling that out of the 136 companies surveyed, only 2 had a payment system. Speaks volumes about the sort of companies YC is trying to incubate/build.
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#18Only 15% of them are using advertising tools? Are YC startups averse to this type of marketing?
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#19Interesting to see which companies are savvy enough to sign up for Google's free webmaster tools: http://trends.builtwith.com/tech-usage/Y-Combinator/Google-W... The list includes Dropbox, Scribd, WePay, OMGPOP, Loopt, and Weebly, but a lot of sites are missing out on potentially useful information--only 18% of 136 sites were detected as signed up with webmaster tools.
can't you verify with google analytics account now? the verification key isn't necessary right?
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#20Interesting information that I'm genuinely interested in but the execution and delivery leave me scratching my head.
The operating system and web server graphs make no sense.
mod_ssl? varnish? Makes me question what was asked and who was answering.
I'd also contend pie charts aren't the best way to represent this information, especially in the categories where there are only a small number of responses.