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This is a highly curated list of products that startups use. It's got contributions from over 1,000 founders from YC and venture backed startups. View your options and find the best products for your startup. Founderkit is also fun to use!
Nice site. Can you speak to why you decided curation was the way to go? Versus something like Siftery that is based on customers using, industry and other "categorization" technique.
@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!
Founderkit is a reviews site for tools to help you build your startup. It started as a spreadsheet, which we shared with other founders, and quickly evolved into a full-fledged reviews site. It was clear that the data in that spreadsheet would be invaluable to other founders, so we had a duty to find a scaleable way to share it.
We’re excited to share Founderkit with you, to save you time or money while building your startup. If you join today, because you found us first, you’ll also get a Product Hunt easter egg in your profile.
Would love any and all thoughts! You can't hurt our feelings! 😁
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@ryanm Cool idea. Were you guys just waiting for Founderskit.co to switch their name to startup.teams? haha
As a founder who has been through it multiple times, I'm excited by what Ryan has put together!
Hi guys, can I haz Founderkit invite plz? There are a few very nice tools I'd like to review.
Interesting (though not surprising) to see top 4 highest rated tools: Slack, AWS, Stripe and Gusto.
@toobulkeh great question. I actually decided to write about this... check it out https://medium.com/@ryanm/starti...
@toobulkeh I'll take industry bias (especial candid, not the BS where everyone pretends they support each others' products in public, but doesn't use them) any day, over no information.
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.
Rather the reason why I'd sign up for the app is tucked away in the top right corner.@cameronrohani thanks for the feedback! You won't want to miss the features we're building for the next major release.
Love this. The curated collections for various categories have been great, but this adds a lot of context. Much more valuable.
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! 💌
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.
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!
@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!
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
@emiliorami would to chat about it! Wanna shoot us an email? Just respond to the welcome email you got when you signed up.
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 :)
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