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Posted by shpran 4 days ago

Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase(startupwiki.tech)
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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gjtjtn 2 days ago|
The idea is great. As a freelancer in the UX/UI field, I am really needed for that project, but the UX is awful. Text me at gopiton.com; I could give you some free advice
gjtjtn 2 days ago|
Not the ad, I'm just not a regular visitor to chatting via comments
lowkey_ 3 days ago||
Looks super cool and love the idea!

I saw Clerk and noticed that it says that they have verified 250 months runway. Maybe true but sounds crazy high.

Maybe if there's a specific article a verification is attributed to, you could add it being cited?

Anyways thanks for making this.

shpran 3 days ago|
thanks! I tried writing a program where if it can't find the runway online, then it tries to guess by using other values, clerk is not really in risk of ever running out of money, and so it juste ended up outputting a really high value, I just updated it so if runway is calculated to be above 20 months+ it just says not at risk
chirau 4 days ago||
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 Otherwise, you will end up with outdated and useless data.
zopper 3 days ago||
Really cool concept but so much of the data is wrong. Anthropic ARR is an order of magnitude higher, Replicate did a Series B as well which is not mentioned. There is probably a lot more.
holistio 4 days ago||
It is unclear how I can list my company here. Are small companies coming later?
shpran 4 days ago|
just launched the button, click it, fill out form, il manually go in aprove, and write your profile.
rowbin 4 days ago||
I get "JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data"
shpran 3 days ago||
just fixed it
rowbin 3 days ago||
Works
Calgaryp 3 days ago||
Hello ! Great project. Do you plan to make it open source as it is already free to use ? If so already, I didn't find the github repository.
shpran 3 days ago||
I just approved a whole bunch of micro businesses! I do not get payed for this, and these aren't ads, instead I do it so people can find under the radar early companies.
sixtyj 4 days ago||
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572472

Why do you ask again for feedback after three days?

shpran 4 days ago||
As far as I can tell from FAQs on hacker news, if your previous post failed to gain significant feedback (in this case, only 1 user interacted with my old post) you are allowed to repost in 36 hours.
LewisVerstappen 4 days ago||
what's wrong with that? Just ignore the post if you don't want to see it.

Build and sharing is awesome

djvdq 4 days ago|
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.
shpran 4 days ago||
yeah, just spotted the error, AI agents seem to be searching for news without adding keywords like "latest", I'm updating that, and changing some system prompts, also adding a fact checking agent, and restarting the server to run an imrpovment pipeline to update these profiles. Might take a while for it to finish running though, Il try to update stuff manually till its done.
TurdF3rguson 3 days ago||
Probably a good idea to just use CrunchBase's numbers until you have a plan for doing it yourself.
shpran 3 days ago||
acessing crunchbase even if its the free version with AI agents is illegal since they have a paid API, so I need to manually get it, which is fine for now, but I eventually need to improve the pipeline.
TurdF3rguson 3 days ago||
Meaning Claude won't help you scrape it and you can't do it yourself? Lol.
shpran 4 days ago||
hey just checked the pipeline after running, the anthropic profile looks better now. (I will roll out more updates in the next few days to keep improving accuracy)
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