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Improving the Interactive Map of YC Start-Ups

a lot of startups on the map.. and that is only a square of SF.. insane

talk about improving your network - just go to SF ;D

What YC Data Would Actually Change How You Build?

We're a small team. We can ship fast. We want to build what's actually useful.

So honest question what would make ExploreYC a tool you open every week?

First to Know when YC Company is Added or Started Hiring

you can go onto the ExploreYC platform, put your email and start receiving emails every day with:

  • newly added companies

  • companies that just started hiring

how are we doing it? we are comparing the snapshot of companies yesterday vs. today and detecting the dif.

How We Keep 5,700 YC Companies Fresh Without Paying for an API

YC doesn't have a public API. But Algolia powers their search.

Every night at 2am UTC, our GitHub Actions cron job hits YC's Algolia endpoint, diffs the response against yesterday's snapshot, and surfaces any new companies or job listings.

What do you wanna see from ExploreYC?

Write up your ideas for feature or iterations over the product! Wanna see what you guys think

Adding More Sources (HackerNews & ProductHunt) & Populating More Funding Data 📊

hey folks, today I ran a couple of agents to take more data and push them to the platform - had the idea to use ProductHunt.. and so we did it!

we are at over 8.5k companies now!

A Bug in Daily Emails for New Companies in YC / Newly Hiring Companies

there was a bug, this PR fixed it - sorry: https://github.com/KonstantinMB/...

you will be receiving cool emails with data every day!

#1 Spot on Launch Day (For Now 👀)

we are taking the 1st place upon launch! let's goo

Launching API Access for YC & a16z Data - Fully Open Sourced 💯

hey chaps, just launched again: https://www.producthunt.com/post...

please leave an upvote and lets spread the word for this open-source project! Aim is to have a community of builders on it!

Extending ExploreYC with A16z data today

major re-write of the platform as I wanna bring more data into it and potentially exposing an API for it.

give me more suggestions of VC/Incubators that have websites and/or APIs we can hit and insert into the platform for everyone to use!