Explore 6048 YC companies as an interactive galaxy
Details
- External ID
- 48968408
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Explore 6048 YC companies as an interactive galaxy
- Website domain
- artifacta.io
- Launched
- July 19, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 36
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8058542413381123
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- revenue optimization and billing analytics
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- interactive galaxy visualization of yc companies
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is an interactive 3D visual frontend built with Three.js or WebGL plotting a static, scraped dataset of Y Combinator companies.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Bevy ecosystem visualization (crates.rugaex.com), YC Universe V1, No Man's Sky (as inspiration for game-like exploration)
Concerns raised: Lacks underlying logic/semantic structure for spatial layout, Stars too small and difficult to select, Hard to distinguish YC stars from background stars, Unclear how visualization actually helps exploration beyond aesthetics, Cosmic theme doesn't conceptually connect to startup data
Feature requests: Add 'do a barrel roll' interactive button, Enable right-click dragging for navigation, Scale up star sizes for better visibility, Remove background stars to reduce visual confusion, Graph should not move when browsing independent nodes
Competitors
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Attention rank: #4 of 29 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 261 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.