Hey Everybody! Hope you had a merry christmas
Today I had a bit of fun with Claude.
Started by scraping YC's startups list, then ran them through OpenAI's embedding service, then UMAP'd the embedding to reduce the dimension to just two coordinates and then just forced Claude to write React that would compile to visualize that.
I had fun and I think it's interesting, so take a look!
Also note that you won't be able to zoom on mobile (found about this Plotly limitation way too late). If there's interest I can fix this issue by changing plotting libs tomorrow :)
Merry christmas
by Liftyee on 12/26/24, 1:51 AM
Cool project, but missed opportunity to name the arbitrary dimensions Y and C...
by paxys on 12/26/24, 4:34 PM
There's no need to include an X & Y axis, labels and gridlines if they all have no meaning. A simple cluster diagram is enough.
by rl_for_energy on 12/26/24, 6:13 AM
It’d be nice to just see the name of the company on click instead of going to the website (I’m on mobile). Trying to find our company
by HeyTomesei on 12/27/24, 4:22 PM
Looks nice, but I'm lost. What do the colors represent? What do the axes #s represent?
by default_ on 12/28/24, 4:39 PM
Improvement Proposition: Could you plot the investment size on the C-axis and the number of people working for the company on the Y-axis? The chart should be improved; otherwise, it lacks meaning.
by rrr_oh_man on 12/26/24, 12:01 AM
Cool concept! What are the X and Y axes?
Oh, and your website has an unchanged Wordpress favicon...
by crush_robo_1536 on 12/26/24, 8:01 PM
Love this! It'd be interesting if some builds this but adds more dimensions (similar to Company status) to it that you can query or group by. For example, if I look at S21 and W21 batches, then it'd be nice to know things like -
1. How many of these companies made it to series A, series B, etc
2. How many of these companies have > x employees (where x can be 5, 10, 20, etc)
3. How many of these companies had a founder that moved on to something else
This does require a lot more intelligent data scraping or manual data collection though.
by detente18 on 1/4/25, 5:32 PM
I wish you could filter by startup name. Would be curious to know where we (litellm) ended up
by zild3d on 12/26/24, 9:54 AM
fun, though I also got stuck on what the Y and C axes represent initially. IMO just hide the axes altogether, since the goal is just some visual clustering/similarity
by tmshapland on 12/26/24, 1:13 AM
Really neat! We were Tule, in the industrials part of the map in grey.
There's something wonky when I zoom in on Chrome on my laptop. It abruptly shifts to another part of the map.
by im_dario on 1/2/25, 4:23 PM
Amazing project! The only thing I'm missing is able to list the filtered companies as a list. But then it wouldn't be a map, I know.
by kure256 on 12/26/24, 9:18 AM
Love that, what are Axes Y and C?
by jb1991 on 12/26/24, 2:42 AM
Filters are unreadable on mobile.
by welder on 12/26/24, 8:33 AM
by uncomplexity_ on 12/26/24, 12:46 AM
hella nice mate very interesting
what's the x and y axes?
by woodylondon on 12/26/24, 1:49 PM
Really nice to see - also, It would be great when filtering if there was a tabular view at the bottom as well.
by welder on 12/26/24, 8:23 AM
Company status isn't up to date... I know there's more than 1 public company that went through YC.
by natural219 on 12/27/24, 2:52 PM
Wow. This is amazing. Extremely practical to use, I'm glad I checked H.N. yesterday.
by k-i-r-t-h-i on 12/26/24, 5:34 PM
This is awesome! Are you able to also add F24?
by gniting on 12/26/24, 9:32 AM
Nice! What's the tech stack?
by mring33621 on 12/26/24, 6:42 PM
i'd like a filter by target market (US, EU, APAC...)
by ksec on 12/26/24, 2:04 PM
I didn't know YC does Government, Healthcare, Industrials, Real Estate and Construction. All these are great sectors and never made the headline.