YC Galaxy - Interactive visualization of 6048 YC companies
Show HN: Explore 6048 YC companies as an interactive galaxy
YC Galaxy transforms the extensive list of 6048 Y Combinator companies into a stunning, interactive galaxy map. This tool allows users to explore the startup ecosystem visually, navigating through a starfield where each point represents a unique company. By leveraging modern web technologies, it turns raw data into an engaging experience, making it easier to discover trends and connections within the YC portfolio. Whether you are an investor, founder, or tech enthusiast, this visualization offers a fresh perspective on the startup landscape without the clutter of traditional lists.
Explore 6048 YC companies as an interactive galaxy.
- darepublic
I'd like the yc cosmos explorable in a no man's sky type game where visiting the company planets will let you explore their business model manifested as a planetary culture and enemy types. The big AI companies will be black holes sucking in material and taking everyones lunch
- david_rugaex
Is there an underlying logic to the spatial layout?
I made something similar for charting out the Bevy ecosystem recently, where my layout is driven by co-use of crates in projects scraped from GitHub. I'm afraid I didn't use an agent swarm though, and it's merely self hosted, not deployed in a single command. https://crates.rugaex.com/
- LikelySupernova
Cool idea, I have a couple of suggestions:
- Get rid of the stars in the background, it's hard to distinguish a YC star from the one in the background.
- Stars are way too small, it'd be better if you scale up the size. It's hard to select a star without zooming in.
- cosmicgadget
Love the visualzation, the responsiveness, and the subtle labels and graph edges. I'd be interested to see any writeups/code on the creation of this, this closely aligns with my vision for traversing my blog database.
- jnakano89
^ Builder here, I used Kimi K3 and agent swarms to turn YC companies into an interactive galaxy. Every star is a startup you can click and explore.