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

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post #10

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572472 Why do you ask again for feedback after three days?

As far as I can tell from FAQs on hacker news, if your previous post failed to gain significant feedback (in this case, only 1 user interacted with my old post) you are allowed to repost in 36 hours.

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

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post #9

I see quite outdated data. Anthropic listed with valuation 18B and latest round at 4b? Just to compare, their real latest round was 65b with valuation 965b.

yeah, just spotted the error, AI agents seem to be searching for news without adding keywords like "latest", I'm updating that, and changing some system prompts, also adding a fact checking agent, and restarting the server to run an imrpovment pipeline to update these profiles. Might take a while for it to finish running though, Il try to update stuff manually till its done.

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

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post #7

Nice initiative. but, I am concerned about the reliability of the data. how are you gonna take care of that?

AI agents have to cite where they get stuff from, also people can flag issues, and I'm gonna run pipelines periodically to fact check pages. But yeah, with this kind of site I do agree accuracy is gonna take a lot of engineering to improve.

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

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post #17

0 for 10 on some startups (large and small, YC and not) that came to mind. It's easy to scrape YC startups from https://www.ycombinator.com/companies . Scrape that and a dozen other investors' portfolio pages and you'll have a useful fraction of startups.

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.

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

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post #17

0 for 10 on some startups (large and small, YC and not) that came to mind. It's easy to scrape YC startups from https://www.ycombinator.com/companies . Scrape that and a dozen other investors' portfolio pages and you'll have a useful fraction of startups.

Same here. I work with a lot of startups, some of them very prominent and none of them are listed.
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