The Y Combinator Database

Hi hunters! Matt from Snappr here. We launched YCDB 1.0 just over a year ago and were so happy with how much the PH community enjoyed it. So we kept working on it as a side project, rebuilding it from scratch with a totally new tech stack and the addition of many of the features that were suggested by the Product Hunt community last year. It is still the most comprehensive, up-to-date public dataset on YC companies, but we hope this new version is a much more useful tool! For those following at home, here's what's new: - The metrics we track on each company has gone from 6 to 14. - You can now create your own custom scoring to rank companies. - Cool new metrics charting tools. - Snappy new search with Algolia. - Visual comparison of YC batches by funding and fate. - Instant company table filtering and search. - See what a company's website looked like at the time of their YC demo day. - Companies from the most recent batch have been added. - Our stack is now Node+Express with Handlebars and a Postgres DB. - It is now hosted at ycdb.co instead of on snappr.co. - Plus much more that you'll have to discover for yourself :) Thanks to those hunters who suggested features and changes: @nathan_milham @rrhoover @kushagrpathak @fan_andy @guillaume_ @rafyasarmatta @paulsputer We want to keep making YCDB even better, so please keep the feature suggestions coming 😃

I see Product Hunt ranks #1 for most tweets. Perhaps not the greatest achievement, but I'll take it. 😆 What's been the biggest surprise you've found from this data, @mdschiller?

@mdschiller Thanks for creating this! I’m curious by what process you decided to prioritize this over Snappr product features. It’s a nice resource but I do have one request: Would it be possible to separate the true exits (IPOs and large acquisitions) from acquihires, where the product is shut down and never integrated? In my opinion, these nominal “exits” actually belong in the “dead” category (or a category of their own). I’d argue an exit should only count if the company is acquired for at least the amount they raised. This can be tricky to calculate if the acquirer is private and the acquisition is made with stock, but it’s usually pretty obvious whether an acquisition was net positive for the acquired company. I think the percentage of true exits is quite small, but your chart makes it look much larger. According to https://www.ycombinator.com/topc..., there have only been 12 YC exits at $100 million or greater as of October 2018.