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Re:6 out of top 10 YC-W23 companies are building apps on top... by abhilashcho on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @07:38PM (#36964829)
PlayHT has almost 10 times more website visitors than others. Power law right there.
Re:6 out of top 10 YC-W23 companies are building apps on top... by dgrwl01 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @07:31PM (#36964763)
Buzzwords seem to generate a lot of curiosity, which can result in increased website traffic and user engagement.
Re:6 out of top 10 YC-W23 companies are building apps on top... by mtmail on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @07:03PM (#36964482)
Monthly website visitors is a strange metric to measure 'top' or success. https://glass.health/ for example is targetting B2B decision makers in health industry.
Re:6 out of top 10 YC-W23 companies are building apps on top... by loondri on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @06:55PM (#36964402)
Here are the top 10 YC-W23 companies by web traffic

PlayHT: https://play.ht

Resend: https://resend.com

Vendah: https://vendah.com.br

Glass Health: https://glass.health

Unify: https://unify.ai

RiVet: https://rivet.gg

Vocode: https://vocode.dev

Stack AI: https://stack-ai.com

CreatorML: https://creatorml.com

Re:6 out of top 10 YC-W23 companies are building apps on top... by zenorocha on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @07:02PM (#36964472)
Resend CEO here - pretty cool to see this list. Great job gathering all this data
Re:6 out of top 10 YC-W23 companies are building apps on top... by peskyObserver1 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @09:22PM (#36965746)
Solid analysis. Perhaps a lot of GenAI startups are SaaS companies? Or maybe that a focus area for YC - intersection of SaaS and GenAI / LLMs? Also some of the use-cases that these startups are targeting do look a light on incremental value add for the normal Joe.