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I'm working on pivots.fyi (https://pivots.fyi/).

It tracks 1000+ startups that have been founded in the last 3 years and showcases how their product, mission, team size, founders, etc. evolve week over week. It is interesting to see how quickly early stage startups pivot.

Looking for feedback/suggestions about how I can make this more useful.


I wish i could see which ones became big in the past 3 years based on profit

What does status mean in your pages case? I saw e.g. Fileforge go inactive, but their website looks pretty active. How do you determine the status?

They are currently listed as inactive in the YC directory. I guess the status section works for accelerators like YC that provide status updates.

Love the UI very simple and minimal

How do you find the data if you don’t mind sharing


Thanks! The data is collected by continuously scraping the startup's website and their YC page.

Nope. I didn't know about the Gnutella Network when I posted this. I've changed the name since but HN doesn't allow editing posts.


Didn't know about this famous distributed systems project! Thanks for pointing out, changed the name of mine to codable.live


Good call. Kudos!


I'm building this tool to make it easier for educators to create programming videos. It can also be useful for people new to programming to play around with basic data structures and algorithms like Trees, Linked Lists, etc.

Looking forward to feedback from HN :)

Note: Doesn't work very well on Mobile


First hit in DuckDuckGo search engine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella


Oh, changed the name of mine!


If you have too many engineers on a problem, they will overengineer stuff. This is a management problem.


I don't have any problem with working with people who are different from me. But I think showcasing the benefits of diversity will make everyone actually embrace it rather grudgingly support it just to be politcically correct.


Insecure websites could get around this by not marking the fields as password fields but using javascript to make them appear so to the user.


In the following scenario:

origin: A-B-C local: A-B-D

What is the recommended action? git pull --ff-only will fail, right? So should I be using git pull --rebase?


Yes, ff-only will fail. If C,D are independent and simple, I would go ahead and rebase, otherwise do a proper merge.

Remember you can play a lot with git; if you are not sure how it will turn out, checkout a commit (e.g. git checkout origin/master), create a new throwaway branch (git checkout -b tmp), then you can do rebases, cherry-picks, merges etc., then do "git log tmp" or "git log -p tmp" to see how does the branch look. If you are unhappy, you can always throw it out (git branch -D tmp), it won't affect anything else.

I generally avoid the situation when a branch and origin diverges. The flow I have in my work is: If I need to make a small change (few lines), I pull, do changes, commit and push directly to master; if there are any intervening independent changes, pull --rebase. For anything larger, I create a new branch, and commit there. Once it is ready, I give it to a teammate for code review and do automated build, if everything is OK he merges it to master. Other people generally don't push to my branch, and there is no A-B-C vs A-B-D situation.

If several people work together on the same branch, we coordinate actions face-to-face or via team chat, to avoid conflicts. We pull/push many times a day and the changes are small enough so there are no problems with rebasing in a topic branch. If two people make big conflicting changes to the same branch, it means trouble and we merge or even discard some changes.


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