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by chaostheory 2763 days ago
Yes CB is more for angels and investors. TheyMadeThat is more about giving credit and seeing someone's impact on the world through their work.

I've been doing the data by hand in order to dog food my UX. I'm not a designer and really the only way for me to fix UX is to feel a potential user's pain. Another reason for this is because at one point I was considering running this as a for profit project, so I couldn't use APIs like Crunchbase's without running into complications; and I didn't want to just scrape. The last reason is that the data just isn't there. I'm capturing data that no one else cares about. What's sad is that most visitors don't even see how deep of a rabbit hole this can be because they just seem to have no interest in making a 2nd or even 3rd click. (Of course the blame lies with me for not making a compelling enough UX and/or copywriting.) For details, read my other comments in this thread.

Thanks for checking it out.

PS if you or anyone has anything you don't like or really like let me know. Feel free to not be nice - I find those responses to be the most useful