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by grape_ 10y ago
To add to this - what they probably did was run an nslookup or dig against the domains themselves. And whatever IP resolved for those domains, they checked who owned that IP space. With a CDN, it won't show AWS, it'll show the CDN
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by grape_ 10y ago
Also, I'm assuming Datanyze used the publicly facing domain of each of these websites (very similar to what I've done). What you'll notice is a lot of these startups have APIs or apps that have very different domains than the
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by grape_ 10y ago
I ran a similar study a while back - I was curious to see if the YC incentives for startups (Azure credits, Amazon credits, Digital Ocean credits, etc.) were significantly swaying founders to use a technology stack. You can find a quick ana
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by grape_ 10y ago
That's correct, but it's very difficult to determine the hosting environment if you're using a CDN. I have a write up on my blog at https://www.gra.pe/?p=36 . But the idea is that if you know the hosting IP, y
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by grape_ 11y ago
You're absolutely right. I haven't really read through many of the DO use cases, so maybe I can start there. But, Microsoft also has a separate program for YC ($500K instead of $60k I believe for startups outside of YC). And I kno
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by grape_ 11y ago
YC and many other incubators provide startups technology incentive programs (Digital Ocean providing $250k credits, Azure providing $500k in credits, etc.). Are any of the hardware startups here utilizing any of the incentive programs? If s
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Registrars and DNS Services Most Used by YC Startups(gra.pe)
4 points by grape_ 11y ago|0 comments
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by grape_ 11y ago
Had an issue with formatting with tables in Wordpress :). Couldn't be bothered to look at it for more than a minute or so. I'll try to fix this now.
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Are YC W15 Microsoft Incentives Working?(gra.pe)
3 points by grape_ 11y ago|1 comments