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Show HN: A clean directory of awesome startups
Most of the directory or listing services are worthless from a browser's point of view. Your startup(or any listed business) gets lost somewhere buried under categories and sub-categories. So, while these directories do offer a link or two, they really do not provide any value or a good user-experience to a casual browser who simply wants to check out cool startups, quickly find out a bit about them and explore further if interested.
I created StartupOnTop to address this very issue and offer a directory that presents startups in a clean, clutter-free manner. It offers a top-down view (startups first, categories later) and also shows a "quick - view" for users to quickly learn about a startup.
Most importantly, I intend to vigorously maintain it - I would like to keep it ad-free and spam-free. That means, the site is not meant for ‘every’ startup and will try to prevent the site from generic dilution. After a free first month, charging a basic maintainance fee.
Here is the submission link: http://startupontop.com/submit-startup/
-Paul
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- paul_cryer 15y agoThanks!
- paul_cryer 15y agoMost of the directory or listing services are worthless from a browser's point of view. Your startup(or any listed business) gets lost somewhere buried under categories and sub-categories. So, while these directories do offer a link or two, they really do not provide any value or a good user-experience to a casual browser who simply wants to check out cool startups, quickly find out a bit about them and explore further if interested. I created StartupOnTop to address this very issue and offer a directory that presents startups in a clean, clutter-free manner. It offers a top-down view (startups first, categories later) and also shows a "quick - view" for users to quickly learn about a startup. Most importantly, I intend to vigorously maintain it - I would like to keep it ad-free and spam-free. That means, the site is not meant for ‘every’ startup and will try to prevent the site from generic dilution. After a free first month, charging a basic maintainance fee.
- vladd 15y agoIt is interesting to see whether users interested in new startups want a directory (links organized in a category-based model) or a blog (where new, fresh information is served periodically on an ongoing basis as it becomes available). I assumed the later when I created http://www.DailyWebApps.com http://www.DailyWebApps.com ; I use WordPress which has built-in support for a category taxonomy so I kind of get the best of both worlds. If you're interested it would be nice to collaborate in this area. Thanks for the useful resource.
- paul_cryer 15y agoVladd, that sounds great. I can be reached at startupontop@gmail.com or paul@startupontop.com
- markkat 15y agoI go to the 'travel' category see the Hipmunk logo, but I can't click on it?
- paul_cryer 15y agoHi Markkat, thanks for the heads up. There was a small jquery bug. It should be fixed now.
- Lukeas14 15y agoFixed on the homepage but I'm still seeing it on category pages.
- johnnyjustice 15y agoGood idea, I hate the fact that directories force everyone into sections, What about a Games start up?
- paul_cryer 15y agoDo you run a games startup? I would be happy to feature it.
- infocaptor 15y agoWhy is it paid? What value are you providing for startups to apply for a paid listing? You don't even have a pagerank as of yet so why do you charge? First build up value then charge Vow! $10/month to just get a link from a pr0 directory?
- iconfinder 15y agoI signed up since it's on the homepage of Hacker News and perhaps getting a peak in traffic for some days. I can always cancel before getting charged. I agree, $10/month is way too much for a service without traction.
- infocaptor 15y agowhat is the average traffic for being on the homepage of hacker news?
- markkat 15y agoThat totally depends on the content, I have found. We've had a couple of links and it brings a couple of hundred hits. However, we've also have had a few that brought a couple of thousands, with little difference in the rank/time.
- markkat 15y agoThat was my thinking. Try it for the first month, and see what comes. It looks nice, at least. :)
- paul_cryer 15y agoHi infocaptor, I am offering a free 30 day listing, if you want to test it out. Like any site, we are just starting out - so obviously we don't have a pagerank etc. But hopefully, with support from customers like you, the ranks will come in near future. Regarding fees, to be bluntly honest - it just takes too much of my time to be doing it for free (even the most subtle of tasks end up taking a good chunk of your day). Moreover, I do not want to offer any advertisement, nor do I want to clutter the site with any and every submissions. So, the only way towards any revenue is a small fee. Thanks for understanding (and your support :)
- ad80 15y ago9.99 per month ?!?! Good joke
- jaxn 15y agoI was really hoping this was a CrunchBase replacement. $10 for a link to my startup (http://bizen.com http://bizen.com)? No thanks!
- martinshen 15y agoThis is like startuplist too.. but paid? I don't know why I would pay for this compared to anything else. Also, the site design leaves a ton to be desired.
- cyphersanctus 15y agoHaha happily filled all the form until I saw the 9.99 per month hehe. Thats steep, given that its free to be on sites like Angel.co or Crunchbase.
- pbreit 15y agoI don't get it. First, I can't imagine anyone would pay $10/month to be on the list (except for forgetting to cancel their trial). The fact that anyone can submit contradicts that it is a list of "awesome startups". The site itself is marginal (no SEO, one line descriptions, hidden information, no content, no freshness, etc). And it's oddly slow. Yuck.