Hey Everybody! Hope you had a merry christmas<p>Today I had a bit of fun with Claude.<p>Started by scraping YC's startups list, then ran them through OpenAI's embedding service, then UMAP'd the embedding to reduce the dimension to just two coordinates and then just forced Claude to write React that would compile to visualize that.<p>I had fun and I think it's interesting, so take a look!<p>Also note that you won't be able to zoom on mobile (found about this Plotly limitation way too late). If there's interest I can fix this issue by changing plotting libs tomorrow :)<p>Merry christmas
Improvement Proposition: Could you plot the investment size on the C-axis and the number of people working for the company on the Y-axis? The chart should be improved; otherwise, it lacks meaning.
Love this! It'd be interesting if some builds this but adds more dimensions (similar to Company status) to it that you can query or group by. For example, if I look at S21 and W21 batches, then it'd be nice to know things like -<p>1. How many of these companies made it to series A, series B, etc<p>2. How many of these companies have > x employees (where x can be 5, 10, 20, etc)<p>3. How many of these companies had a founder that moved on to something else<p>This does require a lot more intelligent data scraping or manual data collection though.
fun, though I also got stuck on what the Y and C axes represent initially. IMO just hide the axes altogether, since the goal is just some visual clustering/similarity
Really neat! We were Tule, in the industrials part of the map in grey.<p>There's something wonky when I zoom in on Chrome on my laptop. It abruptly shifts to another part of the map.
Animated Gif of each category:<p><a href="https://imgur.com/a/ycombinator-startups-map-iNX8k6M" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/ycombinator-startups-map-iNX8k6M</a>