Open Startups List
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Open Startups List
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#2As it is, the website is a usability nightmare. Why should opening regular links be Javascript functions? There is no tab navigation, you can't use accessibility tools and you can't use any mouse interactions besides the hardcoded click event.
It's a nice idea, but I'm really surprised that even a page as simple as this can suffer from over engineering.
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#3I see the financial data is validated by Stripe, but how would this compare to, for example, a 10-Q or 10-K? Is the Stripe data a complete representation of the financial state of these businesses?
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#4There are a bunch of other lists of open startups:
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#5As it is, the website is a usability nightmare. Why should opening regular links be Javascript functions? There is no tab navigation, you can't use accessibility tools and you can't use any mouse interactions besides the hardcoded click event. It's a nice idea, but I'm really surprised that even a page as simple as this can suffer from over engineering.
> Why should opening regular links be Javascript functions?
This is annoying me in the youtube redesign as well. When you visit a channel you can't open the "videos" tab in a new tab because it's implemented as a javascript thing instead of a proper link.
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#6I like https://macopenweb.com/ too!
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#7I don't see an explanation anywhere, what is an "open startup"?
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#8I don't see an explanation anywhere, what is an "open startup"?
It's mentioned half-way down the blogpost (https://hackernoon.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-an-open-start...)
>There’s no official definition yet, and the Oxford dictionary weren’t available for comment, so let’s write one; A product or company which operates in the open and shares their statistics publicly.
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#9I don't see an explanation anywhere, what is an "open startup"?
From the subheading of the site.
> All these startups and side projects are building out in the open. Check them out!
I think this definition is a little lose though. I went to try and see the Muzeek source code and the only thing I found was open source SDKs. I wouldn’t call that building in the open
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#10I don't see an explanation anywhere, what is an "open startup"?
From the subheading of the site. > All these startups and side projects are building out in the open. Check them out! I think this definition is a little lose though. I went to try and see the Muzeek source code and the only thing I found was open source SDKs. I wouldn’t call that building in the open
Apparently it has nothing to do with open source, bur open business practices and metrics.
A bit of a hijack of the word "open" but I'll be generous and say "naming is hard".