I'm sorry, but can we stop calling these startups?<p>Companies like Twitter, eBay, GitHub, Mozilla, Netflix and Atlassian are past the startup stage by now. Many of them have been market leaders for years.<p>Calling Intuit a startup isn't even stretching it anymore. They're 30 years old and have a revenue of over $4B.<p>I realize HN thinks startups are sexy, but these have no business being labeled startups. If Intuit is a startup, what does it take to be a called a mature company?
Great idea, but kind of disappointed in the data. For a site called leanstack, I don't see any of the used stack. What DB they're using, which framework, etc.<p>for example, I know Instagram uses python, redis and Postgres. Pinterest python/django but moving to flask and using MySQL. But I'm curious to know about other sites.
Would be interesting to see a recursive descent (probably wrong term, my swedish is getting in the way) of this; Twitter uses Pingdom, now I want to click on Pingdom to see what they use.<p>Also, a graph with dependencies between these companies would be cool to see. Security companies might want to give the node with most edges a call or two.
We are working on something similar at StartHQ. In addition to listing which services any given company uses, we've also been thinking of listing the technologies the services themselves use, e.g. <a href="https://starthq.com/apps/?technology=mongodb" rel="nofollow">https://starthq.com/apps/?technology=mongodb</a><p>Is this something you'd find useful?
I assumed you would pull the javascript embedded in the target sites along with DNS records to see what services they are using. But where do you get Anyperks data from? Are you manually adding this? [EDIT to make more PC]
This is great insight tool for marketers/business developers. Why did you choose to make this information public? How did you curate all the products/services of all these startups?
Cool info, but the presentation could use some help. The pageloads to view companies are slow, and once they show up, the grid of technologies is not the most thoughtful way to organize the data. It's not clear to me whether order has any meaning.<p>There's got to be a better way to categorize the technologies used. Perhaps separating the core web request stack and from the support components would be a start. Some aggregate information across all of the companies would be useful as well.
I would love to see someone do a sort of trade deficit analysis to see how many products one of these companies uses versus how many other companies use them on this site. Obviously everyone will have far more export than import but perhaps the ratio would provide some interesting insight into how a company operates or how competitive their industry is.<p>It would just be a fun fishing expeditions with the data.
Pretty cool showcase-style site; I could easily see finding a service here that I didn't know everyone else was using. Every software company starting out really should look through these services and others like them, just see if there's something interesting.<p>BTW -- Unicode fail at: "99designs is the world’s largest..." and other places. Check your page's UTF-8 support.
Btw orignal post from the co-founder Yonas, seem to have no traffic: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5243671" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5243671</a> (89 days ago)
The 'Submit Your Startup' form doesn't validate because there's no way to say no to the 'Is this a cloud service intended for developers?' field (because it's a checkbox rather than radio buttons).
This is pretty cool. There was a service a while back which seems to have died called weusethis. It also had interviews with the engineers at the startups detailing how they used their tech stacks.
This is similar in spirit to weusethat.com (itself modeled after usesthis.com), which I really liked but they stopped updating the content mid-past-december. Hopefully leanstack continues.
Hey yonasb this is really cool, if you'd like to automate it a bit let me know we've got an API for this (api.builtwith.com) and we've got free attribution version that you could use.
Many comments here are focusing on negative stuff, so I wanted to say congrats, I find this website incredibly interesting and useful! I learned a lot browsing through it!