alt Hacker NewsShow HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase
I've been building StartupWiki, a free startup database designed to make it easier to discover and research companies.
The original motivation was frustration with how difficult it can be to find information on early-stage startups. Most databases need accounts, or subscriptions, ro just feel too cluttered. I wanted a website that felt like Wikipedia, no accounts, no subscriptions, no weird metrics, just go in, the info is on the page.
The project is still very early, but currently includes:
Startup profiles Search and filtering Company categorization Public API (in progress)
I'm especially interested in feedback on:
What information you look for when researching startups Features missing from existing startup databases API use cases
I'd love to hear feedback.
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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.
It sounds like none of the data will be reliable? Ai and community seems like very little will be true and I will have no idea which part will be true.
a random complain on my part would be the log in with google. hate that. looks great, otherwise. i don't even have a problem creating an account, honestly. but i try to not use the google for anything unless i have to.
How about expose an API so that users can put the name of a startup and it goes through your AI agent pipeline to acquire an estimate? That way, you don’t need to know every startup under the sun and focus on optimizing your pipeline instead.
How about adding some stats to your landing page?
just added a agent ledger, it shows exactly what the agents were doing during the pipeline, u can find it at the top of the sources tab. (it truncates part of the ledger sometimes though, working on fixing that bug)
Yeah tried my own start up and found nothing. I don't know where your sources come from
you may be relying on AI to do the heavy lifting for you too much. If you are sending out agents, you should have strict rules around the recency of the data they are aggregating. Otherwise, you will end up with outdated and useless data.
It is unclear how I can list my company here. Are small companies coming later?
you should link your data to wikidata which will get you free connection back to crunchbase and other sources e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97041185
You could even back some of the data from there
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572472
Why do you ask again for feedback after three days?
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.
Mobile view is not working on my iPhone. Scroll is messed up and the page is not properly fitting in the view.
I wonder why there are No Micro Companies Yet on the platform?
Nice initiative. but, I am concerned about the reliability of the data. how are you gonna take care of that?
How are you going to take care of the genuineness of the data
just added roughly 20 startups, focusing on biotech
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.