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yes, mainly reliability if you're making a lot of calls. if you run this on your own server you'll run into a lot of issues being able to crawl

Yes but we don't solely cover VC funded startups with success rates of <5%.

We cover a lot of small & bootstrapped businesses, e-comm, agencies, side hustles, etc that IMO believe anyone can start. This isn't the stereotypical list of successful companies ala Airbnb, Uber, Dropbox.

Ah yes, been meaning to fix that. Was planning on cleaning it up and also adding a typeahead / search function. Thanks for the feedback.

I think both are important, but I appreciate the feedback.

I know there are a 'zeitgeist' of typical SV successful companies (Uber, Dropbox, etc) but we actually cover a ton of companies you've probably never heard of. We cover a lot of side hustles, side projects, agencies, e-commerce, and more too.

Good call, I could add this as a tag / make it filterable as some of the companies we've done case studies on have since failed, pivoted, or been acquired. Adding this to the backlog.

The guy who made this is a good friend of mine. He's a hacker but for his day job he creates dog treats [1] and my dog loves them.

[1] https://earthlypet.com/

Did App Academy in 2015.

1. Hardest thing I ever did, up to that point.

2. $105k starting salary

3. The most important thing it did was get me in the door as a software engineer. I actually learned and became decent on the job. I took those skills and built my own company years later.

Hope it helps!