Product Hunt

@ryanm · YC alum, Products, Silicon Valley HBO S3

@ggnall hi Graham! I'm not sure that curation was the goal. While the list of services is shorter, anyone can rate anything they like. What we did pretty consciously decide on, however, was to put the founder community first, not try to build for everyone at once. What resulted was almost surprising, in terms of usefulness of the data. Founders were able to glance at the site, find exactly what they needed, and implement it, rather than be overwhelmed by options that aren't right for founders starting companies. Thanks! Hope you find the site useful!

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Leon Pals

@leonpals · Chairman Startup Foundation

Love it, very well designed and executed 👏 Community curated is something I believe is what's next for a lot of what's 'curated'. However, community curation is only as good as its community, and it seems this got that spot on. Especially love the YC badges to convey they know what they're talking about, however, why only YC? I must admit that when we bought founderskit.co we started work on doing roughly the same for our community (community rated tools & more). As you can imagine, I'm looking forward to the overall response of the startup community!

@ryanm · YC alum, Products, Silicon Valley HBO S3

@leonpals Hi Leons! Thanks so much for the kind words. To answer your question, if you browse around you'll actually find badges from 5+ groups of founders like YC (Slow Ventures, Upside Capital, and a bunch in the works). Hope you find the site useful!

Leon Pals

@leonpals · Chairman Startup Foundation

@ryanm that's awesome, I browsed, but must have only saw tools with YC badges 🙊I definitely think it's useful, as there are so many startups for startups, that it's often a real chore to pick the right solution to a problem.

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Kevin Li

@liveink · #NewStuff

Huge fan of this product, there are similar tools but a combination of the seeding network and great UX made all the difference for me.

John Fowler

@johnsteerfowler · Founder, Zero Host

Great idea. Brings a new twist to curated lists

Ravi Srinivasan

@ravsydney · Founder - TruContacts.com

Great resource Ryan. Now how can I contribute to the reviews?

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Leo Bassam

@loaibassam · Founder, CEO at Plutio.com

Wow this sounds amazing, can't wait to give it a go! @ryan @ian, I have requested an invite ;)

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JustAnother PM

@justanotherpm · Product Manager

Really a great idea. Having actual users/ experts review and recommend products to founders hits the nail on the head. Would save hours of researching products to find the best one.

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Brandon Shin

@bshins · Co-founder @ PolymailApp

This is awesome, Founderkit is now the definitive destination site that I go to to research highly qualified service recommendations. Literally a godsend and has saved us so many hours. Thank you! 💌

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Stewart Anderson

@stewmarketing · Chief Marketing Officer, MuteSix

Love this. The curated collections for various categories have been great, but this adds a lot of context. Much more valuable.

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Vincy Farinato

@vincyfarinatoceo · CEO Silicon Valley World - Kenby Founder

Interesting. Just applied to be a contributor! Good Job

Cody McLain

@codymclain · SupportNinja, CEO

Great work. Congrats!

Dražen Lučanin

@metakermit · Building apps with a kick!

Essentially The Wirecutter (http://thewirecutter.com/) for founders. Go there and see what tool you should use for X. With 1000 YC founders recommending tools right now, I'm sure it's gonna grow to be a great community :)

Milan Chheda

@milanchheda · Software Developer

Quite an interesting idea and nice concept. Great resource and great list of online services. Thanks for sharing!

Nick Simard

@nicksimard · Customer Champion, Zapier

Wow, only 3 ratings for Zapier.? That's quite surprising. Startups can save sooooo much time by automating tedious things with Zapier.

Phillip Rivers

@mstrvrs · Entrepreneur

Awesome ! Thanks for sharing

Emilio Ramirez Eguia

@emiliorami · Co-Founder & Ops, SOMOS

I love this! I've been meaning for some time to do something similar down in Mexico. The startup ecosystem here is growing fast and it's a pain trying and tossing different solutions for everything. The best way to avoid that is to have a quick and easy platform that helps other founders find out what's working and what isn't from founders & startups themselves. I'd really really REALLY love to help you translate & localize Founderkit to Spanish and push it through in Mexico City. I'd rather work with you guys than start from scratch. Let me know if you're interested. @ryanm @ianhunter

@ryanm · YC alum, Products, Silicon Valley HBO S3

@emiliorami would to chat about it! Wanna shoot us an email? Just respond to the welcome email you got when you signed up.

Todd Henderson

@todd_henderson · Director StartupGrind Cincy

Interesting (though not surprising) to see top 4 highest rated tools: Slack, AWS, Stripe and Gusto.

Cameron Rohani

@cameronrohani

I found this copy to be slightly misleading, as I in fact don't need to join to get the reviews.

Rather the reason why I'd sign up for the app is tucked away in the top right corner.