Hi everyone,<p>We put together a map that shows where YC companies are from. It’s based on the location of the founders before applying for YC. As a founder and previous YC applicant, I know how daunting the application process can be, especially, when you are far away from San Francisco. Now that I work for YC, I wanted to help build it.<p>Let us know if you have any feedback<p>Thanks
Looks good. One suggestion if I may:<p>When I click on a country in map, the text listing should show the name of the country and not just the flag. Flags are great but I would rather read "China" than seeing the flag since a lot of us may not know every flag in the world.<p>The top 5 are :<p><pre><code> United States: 1062
Canada: 62
UK: 42
India: 29
France: 16
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Rest are all in single digits so far.
Interesting map! German here, surprising to see only 3 German companies have made the list. I don't know what I expected, but 3 YC companies seems like a <i>really</i> low number.<p>(Micro-nitpick: The color scale is a little bit confusing. Darker = more startups; but USA [1,062 startups] and Canada [62] both have #597b9f as color, even though there's a one-thousand-company difference)
Good stuff.<p>I noticed an error: Flutterwave and New Incentives are supposed to be in Nigeria not Niger.<p>Niger is above Nigeria (the darkest country in Africa).
Probably incorporation affects result by a wide margin.<p>E.g. our company (not YC alumni) is incorporated in Delaware and based in Mountain View, but both founders are Polish and half of the employees are in Poland. On such list, we would come up as USA company. Probably quite a few companies have the same effect.
Very cool to see companies mapped out.<p>Slight nitpick - I really wish click to drag panning and mousewheel/pinch zooming was supported on the map. Navigating the map was a bit of a chore - mostly for smaller geographically sized countries.
Pretty cool. One nitpick: I wish the darkness was proportional to the number of companies. The U.S. is at 1062 and is as dark as countries with 7 or 29. I wish there were more contrast.