Show HN: I made an IMDB for Tech

Could you tell us the difference between this and crunchbase?

Nice one

Crunchbase is focused on looking at companies and people from an investment perspective. Consequently it has stuff like funding rounds and investors. There are no profiles for products, only companies and people.

These features are are differentiate TheyMadeThat from everything else:

TheyMadeThat is focused on history and impact. There are profiles for things, organizations, and people.

In addition to having links to its makers, Things on TMT can have versions and parts. Things can be also be used by people (more on this later) - versions are links to other things that are variants or versions of itself - parts are links to other things are components - things can also have predecessors and successors (older and newer models)

People can have projects which associate them to things. Projects themselves are entities that can have details such as what tools were used (like with 'parts' this can help track a thing's impact), inspirations (things that inspired their work - also tracks impact), and projects have have team members

Organizations can have both predecessors and successors. The rationale is that whenever organizations change names, it tends to signal a large change (a major change in strategy, acquisition, etc...)

Anyways, there's probably something I've forgotten but I've tried to design it to be a rabbit hole.

try clicking around here https://theymadethat.com/organizations/rv3/y-combinator

You'd be amazed as to how many links YC people have. It’s actually easy to figure out how they got into YC as well

This is cool and seems to have a nice flow to it. Not as data intensive as Crunchbase making it easier to read for general knowledge / trivia about a company / product.

I think CB is more focused on the finer details of a company for people to make business decisions.

How are you curating the database? I have been kicking around FinTECH Report http://www.fintechreport.info for a while now but curation is just such a de-motivator for me.

I was hoping that the respective owners/managers of a product might "take ownership" of the listings and manage them... I would love to hear how you solve for that.

P.S. I looked up Twitter and Biz Stone wasn't in the founder list. I'm sorry i'm not motivated to sign up and fix it. Honestly, i'm just not bothered to help out as a site visitor....but... I would hold it against the site if it missed such critical details as that. (Not trying to be harsh, just honest realistic feedback, if that's ok). :)

Good work though and interested to see where it goes.

I'll fix it - thanks for the UX heads up. Design is definitely not my strong suit