Life & fun · December 25, 2024
Map of YC Startups
Hey Everybody! Hope you had a merry christmas Today I had a bit of fun with Claude. Started by scraping YC's startups list, then ran them through OpenAI's embedding service, then UMAP'd the embedding to reduce the dimension to just two coordinates and then just forced Claude to write React that would compile to visualize that. I had fun and I think it's interesting, so take a look! Also note that you won't be able to zoom on mobile (found about this Plotly limitation way too late). If there's interest I can fix this issue by changing plotting libs tomorrow :) Merry christmas
Map of YC Startups launched on December 25, 2024 with 104 votes, #390 of 5,365 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Map of YC Startups is an interactive visualization that plots Y Combinator's startup portfolio on a two-dimensional map. It uses machine learning embeddings and dimensionality reduction to group similar companies based on their characteristics. The tool helps users explore YC's portfolio by viewing startup relationships and clusters visually. Desktop users can zoom and interact with the map, though mobile zoom functionality is currently limited.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
Interactive visualization of company landscape
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