Most of the directory or listing services are worthless from a browser's point of view. Your startup(or any listed business) gets lost somewhere buried under categories and sub-categories. So, while these directories do offer a link or two, they really do not provide any value or a good user-experience to a casual browser who simply wants to check out cool startups, quickly find out a bit about them and explore further if interested.<p>I created StartupOnTop to address this very issue and offer a directory that presents startups in a clean, clutter-free manner. It offers a top-down view (startups first, categories later) and also shows a "quick - view" for users to quickly learn about a startup.<p>Most importantly, I intend to vigorously maintain it - I would like to keep it ad-free and spam-free. That means, the site is not meant for ‘every’ startup and will try to prevent the site from generic dilution. After a free first month, charging a basic maintainance fee.<p>Here is the submission link: http://startupontop.com/submit-startup/<p>-Paul
Most of the directory or listing services are worthless from a browser's point of view. Your startup(or any listed business) gets lost somewhere buried under categories and sub-categories. So, while these directories do offer a link or two, they really do not provide any value or a good user-experience to a casual browser who simply wants to check out cool startups, quickly find out a bit about them and explore further if interested.<p>I created StartupOnTop to address this very issue and offer a directory that presents startups in a clean, clutter-free manner. It offers a top-down view (startups first, categories later) and also shows a "quick - view" for users to quickly learn about a startup.<p>Most importantly, I intend to vigorously maintain it - I would like to keep it ad-free and spam-free. That means, the site is not meant for ‘every’ startup and will try to prevent the site from generic dilution. After a free first month, charging a basic maintainance fee.
I don't get it. First, I can't imagine anyone would pay $10/month to be on the list (except for forgetting to cancel their trial). The fact that anyone can submit contradicts that it is a list of "awesome startups". The site itself is marginal (no SEO, one line descriptions, hidden information, no content, no freshness, etc). And it's oddly slow. Yuck.
This is like startuplist too.. but paid? I don't know why I would pay for this compared to anything else. Also, the site design leaves a ton to be desired.
I was really hoping this was a CrunchBase replacement.<p>$10 for a link to my startup (<a href="http://bizen.com" rel="nofollow">http://bizen.com</a>)? No thanks!
Why is it paid? What value are you providing for startups to apply for a paid listing?<p>You don't even have a pagerank as of yet so why do you charge?<p>First build up value then charge<p>Vow! $10/month to just get a link from a pr0 directory?