Hacker News: shpranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shpranHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:56:08 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by shpran in "Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase"]]>I fixed it

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:33:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614101shpranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614101https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614101<![CDATA[New comment by shpran in "Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase"]]>acessing crunchbase even if its the free version with AI agents is illegal since they have a paid API, so I need to manually get it, which is fine for now, but I eventually need to improve the pipeline.

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:32:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614091shpranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614091https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614091<![CDATA[New comment by shpran in "Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase"]]>This is pretty early stage, I'm planning on adding more startups every day, il Luma and Saronic soon.

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:31:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614080shpranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614080https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614080<![CDATA[New comment by shpran in "Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase"]]>this is pretty early stage and so I didn't want to make a ton of profiles only to have to update them later because of an issue int he generation pipeline, Im planning on adding about 800 startups every day.

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:30:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614073shpranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614073https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614073<![CDATA[New comment by shpran in "Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase"]]>just fixed it

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:38:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613217shpranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613217https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613217<![CDATA[New comment by shpran in "Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase"]]>hey just checked the pipeline after running, the anthropic profile looks better now. (I will roll out more updates in the next few days to keep improving accuracy)

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:44:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612830shpranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612830https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612830<![CDATA[New comment by shpran in "Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase"]]>micro companies aren't added by me, people submit their own, then I go in and approve, haven't gotten any submissions yet, when I do I'll add them in.

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:23:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612659shpranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612659https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612659<![CDATA[New comment by shpran in "Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase"]]>just added a agent ledger, it shows exactly what the agents were doing during the pipeline, u can find it at the top of the sources tab. (it truncates part of the ledger sometimes though, working on fixing that bug)

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:10:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612562shpranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612562https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612562<![CDATA[New comment by shpran in "Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase"]]>I got the agents to cite sources, there's a bug with fetching the urls from the DB, the way it should work is when you hit verified it leads you to the source, working on fixing it now. Also I will try to add an agent ledger tab soon, that shows exactly what the agents were doing.

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:42:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612330shpranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612330https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612330<![CDATA[New comment by shpran in "Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase"]]>just launched the button, click it, fill out form, il manually go in aprove, and write your profile.

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:38:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612300shpranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612300https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612300<![CDATA[New comment by shpran in "Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase"]]>just added roughly 20 startups, focusing on biotech

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:37:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612281shpranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612281https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612281<![CDATA[New comment by shpran in "Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase"]]>AI agents have to cite sources for each thing (there's a bug with displaying sources, it should let u click a fact and send you to where the agent got it. I'm working on fixing that right now). Users can also flag errors, and I'm going to periodically run fact-checking agents and manually go in and check info. However, obviously this will likely still not be perfect, accuracy will probably be the number 1 challenge with this site.

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:31:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612222shpranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612222https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612222<![CDATA[New comment by shpran in "Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase"]]>Sounds good! its just I used up most of my API key limits in development, and I'm keeping some so I can run improvement pipelines or fix errors, so il batch the YC companies day by day, there's 5000 companies, so il do about 800 each day for 5-6 days.

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:29:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612194shpranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612194https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612194<![CDATA[New comment by shpran in "Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase"]]>AI agents have to cite where they get stuff from, also people can flag issues, and I'm gonna run pipelines periodically to fact check pages. But yeah, with this kind of site I do agree accuracy is gonna take a lot of engineering to improve.

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:26:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612173shpranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612173https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612173<![CDATA[New comment by shpran in "Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase"]]>yeah, just spotted the error, AI agents seem to be searching for news without adding keywords like "latest", I'm updating that, and changing some system prompts, also adding a fact checking agent, and restarting the server to run an imrpovment pipeline to update these profiles. Might take a while for it to finish running though, Il try to update stuff manually till its done.

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:24:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612153shpranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612153https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612153<![CDATA[New comment by shpran in "Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase"]]>As far as I can tell from FAQs on hacker news, if your previous post failed to gain significant feedback (in this case, only 1 user interacted with my old post) you are allowed to repost in 36 hours.

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:22:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612126shpranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612126https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612126<![CDATA[Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase]]>I've been building StartupWiki, a free startup database designed to make it easier to discover and research companies.

The original motivation was frustration with how difficult it can be to find information on early-stage startups. Most databases need accounts, or subscriptions, ro just feel too cluttered. I wanted a website that felt like Wikipedia, no accounts, no subscriptions, no weird metrics, just go in, the info is on the page.

The project is still very early, but currently includes:

Startup profiles Search and filtering Company categorization Public API (in progress)

I'm especially interested in feedback on:

What information you look for when researching startups Features missing from existing startup databases API use cases

I'd love to hear feedback.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610224

Points: 142

# Comments: 45

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:59:29 +0000https://startupwiki.tech/shpranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610224https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610224<![CDATA[Show HN: StartupWiki, a free alternative to crunchbase/pitchbook]]>crunchbase is $49 a month, which is fine if your an investor, but doesn't make sense for everyone else. So I built this website, the way it works is when u suggest a startup or flag an error, I have an internal dashboard where I can deploy AI agents to write a profile or fix the errors. These AI agents cross reference public info from across the web to find out metrics about the company.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48587314

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:53:25 +0000https://startupwiki.tech/shpranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48587314https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48587314<![CDATA[Show HN: Free Alternative to Crunchbase]]>This site is a free alternative to crunchbase, I use teams of AI agents to assemble and write profiles of startups, the API key is also free. Im planning on adding more profiles every day.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578943

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:29:33 +0000https://startupswiki.vercel.app/shpranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578943https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578943<![CDATA[New comment by shpran in "Show HN: A Free Crunchbase Alternative"]]>sounds good! il email you soon

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:31:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573725shpranhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573725https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573725