[inglesp]

Hi HN,

I work for OpenCorporates, the team behind this, and we were planning to do a "Show HN" in the next couple of days, once we'd got a few wrinkles sorted out.

In the meantime, I'll be around for a bit and try to answer any questions.

[PeterisP]

The site fails to achieve the goal of enticing contribution - the only option to actually contribute is a link to the 'missions' page that has only a single mission regarding Bolivia that doesn't interest me at all.

Furthermore, dedicated crawler isn't needed in many smaller (or more centralised/regulated?) markets where there are only a few players. E.g. in Latvia there are less than 30 credit institutions, and as the published data is freeform, not machine readable (http://fktk.lv/en/market/credit_institutions/banks1/ etc), then simply copy/pasting the info would be much quicker than testing a scraper.

[samstave]

So tangential, but germane: What if anything have you learned about all the banker deaths in the last ~24 months. Do you think, as some do, that its just given the population-size of the banking sector, these deaths are all normal? Or do you think there is a wider story here? Or do you not know what I am talking about? [1]

[1]This is not an authoritative list, and I have never read this particular site, but its one of the first on google: http://www.hangthebankers.com/48-suspicious-banking-deaths/

[imron]

One of those wrinkles is the mobile experience of your site, which is currently almost unusable - a big chunk of navigation always taking up the top 3/4 of the screen, and then a tiny fraction of scrollable content.

[inglesp]

Yep, we know!

[moriokumura]

What' the source of world map? I'm surprised you are listing Somaliland and Northern Cyprus as an independent nation, but not listing some little nations. (e.g. Vatican, Andorra)

[fhadley]

can you explain more about how you want "coders" to do "missions", but you're charging 20k/yr for access to part of the data, and you have an obnoxiously low rate limit? are you bloomberg? I think we should all stick with quandl for now. But seriously though, it's disingenuous to brand yourself as "open data" but not offer bulk downloads and a realistic API limit.

[mipapage]

I'd like to follow you somehow (no time like the future!), but no email signup and no sign of twitter. Suggestions?

[inglesp]

We're @opencorporates on twitter, and I'll make sure we add a link to that from mapthebanks.com later today.

[mipapage]

Thanks!