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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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brianbreslin 3 days ago|
Can you add founder university affiliation? That's the only thing I begrudgingly pay crunchbase for and its wildly inaccurate.
brokensegue 4 days ago||
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

LewisVerstappen 4 days ago||
Mobile view is not working on my iPhone. Scroll is messed up and the page is not properly fitting in the view.
karlmush 4 days ago|
Notice this too. Also the animations might be too much for mobile. Consider just listing the cards without them moving horizontally.
rkwap 4 days ago||
Nice initiative. but, I am concerned about the reliability of the data. how are you gonna take care of that?
shpran 4 days ago||
AI agents have to cite where they get stuff from, also people can flag issues, and I'm gonna run pipelines periodically to fact check pages. But yeah, with this kind of site I do agree accuracy is gonna take a lot of engineering to improve.
Flavius 4 days ago||
He's going to take your comment and give it to Claude as a prompt.
androiddrew 4 days ago||
Yeah tried my own start up and found nothing. I don't know where your sources come from
shpran 4 days ago|
this is pretty early stage and so I didn't want to make a ton of profiles only to have to update them later because of an issue int he generation pipeline, Im planning on adding about 800 startups every day.
dineshmendhe 4 days ago||
I wonder why there are No Micro Companies Yet on the platform?
shpran 4 days ago|
micro companies aren't added by me, people submit their own, then I go in and approve, haven't gotten any submissions yet, when I do I'll add them in.
samcolson42 4 days ago||
I’ve been trying to submit but hit an error about the string format not being correct. It doesn’t give any indication on which string is wrong.
shpran 3 days ago||
I fixed it
anandukch 4 days ago||
How are you going to take care of the genuineness of the data
shpran 4 days ago|
AI agents have to cite sources for each thing (there's a bug with displaying sources, it should let u click a fact and send you to where the agent got it. I'm working on fixing that right now). Users can also flag errors, and I'm going to periodically run fact-checking agents and manually go in and check info. However, obviously this will likely still not be perfect, accuracy will probably be the number 1 challenge with this site.
physix 3 days ago||
How about adding some stats to your landing page?
shpran 3 days ago|
good idea, I will roll out tomorrow.
hoomanmo 4 days ago||
The search for Luma and Saronic didn't work
shpran 4 days ago|
This is pretty early stage, I'm planning on adding more startups every day, il Luma and Saronic soon.
shpran 4 days ago|
just added roughly 20 startups, focusing on biotech