Once again, a tool recommendation site that doesn't do anything different or unique than what's been done or what's out there now. This is just like BestVendor.com (site was sold a few years ago, but more of an acquihire).<p>There are tons of these types of review sites.
<a href="http://www.stacklist.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.stacklist.com/</a>
<a href="https://startupresources.io/" rel="nofollow">https://startupresources.io/</a>
<a href="https://stackshare.io/" rel="nofollow">https://stackshare.io/</a><p>And they're all pretty much the same. They're mostly just a list of tools, sorted by popularity or recommendations.<p>I'm sorry, but this is just not that useful for me. It still requires a ton of time to look through and research the tools. Sure, it's useful just to help start your research, but it ends there.<p>I've researched this space in-depth and have a solution that's different, but way more useful. I'm just too busy working on other stuff to tackle it right now.<p>---------------<p>To give you guys an idea of what I'm thinking, here is a tool comparison that is much more useful to me.<p><a href="https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/five-app-prototyping-tools-compared-form-framer-origami-pixate-proto-io-c2acc9062c61" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/five-app-prototyping-t...</a><p>It's ONE guy that researched 5 competing prototyping tools with a specific task in mind. He lists the pros and cons of each, and goes into some detail on each one and how they performed with his particular task.<p>I wouldn't be copying this exact format, but the takeaway here is that it's ONE person that has researched ALL or most of the tools within a particular category, and had an actual task to accomplish, so they have a much better idea of what each does, its strengths and weaknesses. The problem with founderkit and similar sites is that the reviewers have not researched all the tools within a category, so they're only giving you their viewpoint on one tool.<p>If anyone is interested in my idea, let me know. I may devote some resources to it if I find the right people.
This is obviously modeled after Product Hunt with similar rating/review systems, and suffers from the same issues regarding rating/review quality. Despite the emphasis on "unbiased" reviews, the reviews/comments (example: <a href="https://founderkit.com/biz/slack" rel="nofollow">https://founderkit.com/biz/slack</a>) boil down to "I used it and it's good" which doesn't help <i>anyone</i>, and is essentially a manifestation of confirmation bias and makes the entire thing a popularity contest, not a measurement of quality.<p>Also, giving each tool a ranking from 1-10 <i>when the only way to vote is Like/Neutral/Dislike</i> is misleading.
I hate how they force users to sign up. You need to give access to your Twitter and LinkedIn. Who knows what kind of data mining they do.<p>Also: dude, you already have my twitter, why do you still need my email address? Twitter already gives you that. What If I don't have a title? Why is that required?<p>No thanks
When I need a tool I check Zapier first. Why? Because I know I can easily integrate with other systems and because I get almost the full lay of the land.<p>That said... without knowing the size of the user base, how much cash these companies have, etc. whose to say even 1/2 of them will be around 5 years. These tools need to be used and integrated with great caution.
Is there any reason why there isn't a single security utility, aside from password managers on this list?<p>It seems that security is an afterthought at most startups.
"Beta tested and used by almost 1,000 YC founders"<p>Most things I have clicked on have about 10 ratings tops and one line reviews. Even as a quantitative tool it's not that useful (yet). Would be interested in seeing some stats. From a first glance I expect a correlation between number of ratings and positive ratings. At least the subcategories I clicked through all followed that pattern.<p>I'd also love a filter on the subpages like: <a href="https://founderkit.com/biz/optimizely" rel="nofollow">https://founderkit.com/biz/optimizely</a> where I can filter the negative feedback to the top (especially once there's a lot more data). I personally make most decisions after reading negative feedback and only roughly browsing the positive feedback.<p>Edit: I'd also like to read a bit more on the reasoning of the ranking. Why was this system (popularity, score, recency) picked over purely ranking on score?
I feel like reviews really need an A/B test at the very least, because someone comparing and contrasting two products gives you an idea of the relative importance of different features.
I think my biggest issue with all of these things is they tend to only serve YC companies and not the multitude of other independent hackers out there outside of that pipeline. I've just stopped sharing stuff like this because it hurts the entire ecosystem long term. <i>shrug</i>
There is not enough data on review list. You need to click the product sometimes to see what it does. There should be 3-4 sentence, non-biased, non-advertisement description.
The recommendation site I wanted to have was <a href="http://stackparts.com/" rel="nofollow">http://stackparts.com/</a> (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2993371" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2993371</a>) but nothing became of it...<p>Maybe there are just too many options nowadays for a visualization of possible stacks to be useful.<p>cc @joshu
I liked it. In particular the categories which I think a lot of really small companies might find useful. Needs to be 40 times more users and less yc backed bias but still ok.
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