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Startup Tracker 3.0 - The startup search engine 🎯

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🕵️ Search for startups by name or filters

🗺 View one page summaries for companies with links to their Crunchbase, AngelList, Product Hunt (obviously😇 !) etc.

👩‍💻 Make startup lists to share or post

📬 Track companies to get notified of major updates [in progress]

The best things in life are free and Startup Tracker is no exception ✌️

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Maker
Hi Everyone 👋 You asked for it, we made it! Startup Tracker is now a full-fledged web app, the evolution of our browser extension (note to all makers: if we had to do it all over again, we would have started with a web app. Adding new features and growth/conversion can be tricky with extensions 😉). Thanks for hunting ! Why Startup Tracker? Loads of new startups being founded + startup industry growing = information spread across platforms 👉 it’s time the startup community got its own search engine. Current Startup Tracker features:  * Short company summaries with links to profiles on different startup platforms * Magic button to ask for missing info * Track toggle for startups you care about [NEW] * Make startup lists you can share with a link [NEW] * Find relevant startups you didn’t know about! [NEW] What we’re working on: * Radar: weekly emails with new startups matching your specific needs * Updates: weekly digest with updates for startups you track * Our master plan: WAY MORE DATA…more about this soon 🤐 For now, extremely interested in knowing what you think (yes, you reading this right now!) How can we make Startup Tracker even better? Drop a comment below👇 or shoot me a message Thanks in advance!
Awesone Guys! When is the Startup Tracker mobile app coming out? Thanks,.
Maker
Woohooo you got the first comment🥇 🎉 Not sure yet for native apps, at the moment 90% of our users are on desktop, so we'll probably focus on the responsive web app in the short term. Will keep you posted.
What is the difference between startup.io and Crunchbase? Incredible UX!! Very Dope🚬🚬
Maker
Thanks man! Startup Tracker is a search engine which points people to the right destination (we call them specialist platforms). For example, we show Crunchbase links on startup profiles when we have them (big icons top left). If someone is interested in investment data for a company they click through from Startup Tracker to CB, if they're interested in something else, like jobs, they might click through to AngelList. etc. Data is the new oil, it's all about making it easy to find!

If you're researching lots of startups, it's a nifty tool that speeds up some of your repetitive processes. Looking forward to continued product updates.

Pros:

Saves you time if you're researching lots of startups.

Cons:

Not all early stage startups are on here.

Maker
Thanks for the feedback, duly noted!
and team. Great work on reaching this milestone. Our company "Capsule Labs" doesn't show up in search result for "Capsule"?
Yep it looks like Capsule is a widely use term in startup names/descriptions ('nudge' and 'origin' are two others!) we show 10 results for search queries -> If we show more you might be there, perhaps we should increase the number of results to 20?
20 would def benefit a few companies like ours ;) For my own curiosity (product guy here :D), what was the decision decision to go with 10, then have user enter Twitter?
Maker
It was an arbitrary decision, we started with a small page size (10), suspecting we'd have to increase it. This and others confirmed it! For most search terms 10 is enough i.e. if a startup has a peculiar name there will be less than 10 results, the 'send us on a missing' thing is there in case there are no traces of the startup on our platform yet.
cool. Thanks for answering. Is it worth (in terms of search results) to build a "X more" below the 10 I wonder...
Maker
Will have a think. Thank you so much for the feedback
Really cool. I signup my startup. There is an issues though. Anyone can claim or update any startup profile with the link at the bottom of the page
Maker
Don't worry, that's not the case! Once you fill in your details, you have to tweet a validation code from the startup's official account or send the code to our bot from a company email. Profile aren't published until we receive verification codes, so anyone can submit a profile for any startup but only the genuine info will ever be published. Try it out!
Okies, i got it. Nice

I was glad to test that tool and will certainly keep using it over the next months. Finally a good way to find infos about startups and discover new apps in the blink of an eye.

Thank you guys for this great tool ;)

Pros:

Simple, clear and powerful. A lot of data is available.

Cons:

Also displays shut off startups without labelling them as closed.

Maker
Merci Grégoire! Yes tracking dead companies is a big challenge for everyone in our space. We have a few ideas on how this can be done. It's on the roadmap and got a +1 vote with this review. 🙏
Awesome UX
Maker
Thank you 😊 it's my design 🙈
Congratulations! i am a Designer UI/UX, give me inspirations
Nice work Jeremiah
Maker
Thank man. Catch up soon 🏅
Will crunchbase or angellist/producthunt buy this? :)
Maker
Please take this with a grain of salt as I'm inevitably biased here. Having built products in this space for 3 years I think the time of a 'know it all database' has passed. As the startup industry matures data is bound to be spread across different platforms and someone needs to link that data to help people find what they need <=> help startups reach their target audience. That's my definition of a search engine and that's why we're building Startup Tracker. Not sure how well the product would be able to fulfil its mission if it was owned by one of the platforms it links to.
this is great, is it on your roadmap to tag all the startups so people can also search related terms e.g. femtech, and pull up relevant results?
Maker
Yes! We actually already have a basic version of this implemented at the moment. Check out the Discover section on the left side menu, you can pull up startups by Market and/or keyword. It's a form of boolean search so you can add as many filter as you want. Did you have something like this in mind?
Yes exactly, niiiiice!
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