Foundertrace
chain of YC startups founded by its employees
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Inspired by PG’s tweet about a chain of 4 YC startups where the founder worked at a YC startup, I vibe coded and generated these genealogy chains for all ~6k YC startups. And to make these trees easily accessible I packaged them into a hosted webapp.Few noteworthy YC startups which have had huge impact in YC ecosystemAirbnb - 83 YC startups spawnedStripe - 67 YC startups spawnedDropbox - 50 YC startups spawnedJustin.tv/Twitch - 47 YC startups spawnedMore recently founded YC startups which have spawned a lot more YC startupsRappi - 21 YC startups spawnedBrex - 20 YC startups spawnedScale AI - 19 YC startups spawned
HN · launched Jan 3, 2026 · 39 upvotes (top 24%) · 0 views
Niche: startup directories and launch platforms · 246 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -45% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Marketplace
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward directory and tree visualization web app powered by a pre-scraped and analyzed dataset of YC companies.
Discussion
14 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Batch years data accuracy issues, Data sourcing and licensing transparency, Limited query/filter functionality for large graphs
Feature requests: Raw data access for external analysis with pyvis/networkx, Full graph visualization with company-company links and timestamps, Graph database backend with query UI for better manageability
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 98 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #31 of 99 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 30 days after the earliest competitor.
- ExploreYC · ph · 2026-05-07 · 168 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- RemJobs · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Startups.RIP · ph · 2026-04-09 · 204 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- how-profitable-startups-grow · github · 2026-11-03 · 165 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- We review YC applications for free · hn · 2026-01-29 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- YC Has It · hn · 2026-07-24 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- aayans-yc-indexor · github · 2026-09-22 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- FounderTube · ph · 2026-11-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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