LeanStack
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SHOW HN2013
261points
87comments
#47of 1,739 in 2013
Top 3%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
7 positive, 23 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 25 critical, out of 56 comments about the project. Thread score -0.30.
Idea: 7 for, 8 againstExecution: 0 for, 7 againstPerformance: 0 for, 5 againstDesign: 0 for, 3 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting, useful showcase of services companies use
From 2 comments
Pretty cool showcase-style site; I could easily see finding a service here that I didn't know everyone else was using. Every software company starting out really should look…
calinet6 on HNMany comments here are focusing on negative stuff, so I wanted to say congrats, I find this website incredibly interesting and useful! I learned a lot browsing through it!
clement75009 on HN
Objections
Many listed companies (eBay, Intuit, Mozilla) are not startups
From 3 comments
I'm sorry, but can we stop calling these startups? Companies like Twitter, eBay, GitHub, Mozilla, Netflix and Atlassian are past the startup stage by now. Many of them have been…
sspiff on HNMany of these companies are not "startups" anymore. Fir example, Ebay ?
pavanky on HNI usually make more sure than 'most of x is y' before I claim certain things. This is just hipsterism. Ebay, LinkedIn, Mozilla? Are you kidding? While in New York I went to some…
mosselman on HN
Shows cloud services rather than the languages and frameworks in the stack
From 3 comments
Great idea, but kind of disappointed in the data. For a site called leanstack, I don't see any of the used stack. What DB they're using, which framework, etc. for example, I know…
salimmadjd on HNThis should be 'See what services the best startups in the world are using'.
moondowner on HNAgreed. I was expecting languages used, server environment, etc. A little disappointed.
DigitalSea on HN
Site errors (503s) under HN traffic
From 2 comments
Getting a lot of 503's, please fix the problem. Seems another website not being able to handle HN 1st page traffic.
suyash on HNSeems like its time to upgrade your own stack. Getting some 503 errors on some pages.
mflindell on HN
Presentation is poor and form validation is broken
From 3 comments
Interesting data but worst presentation ever. It's tabular data. Put it in a plain old HTML table so we can make sense of it.
moe on HNI have a validation bug to report: "Is your service currently in Beta?" is a required field however there is no way to answer with no to that.
markoa on HNThe 'Submit Your Startup' form doesn't validate because there's no way to say no to the 'Is this a cloud service intended for developers?' field (because it's a checkbox rather…
riteshpatel on HN
Requests
Show languages and server-side technologies
From 2 comments
Exactly. It would be great if we can see which languages and other server side technologies they use.
arocks on HNGreat idea, but kind of disappointed in the data. For a site called leanstack, I don't see any of the used stack. What DB they're using, which framework, etc. for example, I know…
salimmadjd on HN
Link stack items to their own stacks recursively
From 1 comment
Would be interesting to see a recursive descent (probably wrong term, my swedish is getting in the way) of this; Twitter uses Pingdom, now I want to click on Pingdom to see what…
Zolomon on HN
Correlate stack with funding or valuation
From 1 comment
Mash it up with Crunchbase (?) and see if there is any meaningful correlation between stack and funding rounds, stack and IPO, stack and aquihire, ...
jerrya on HN
Questions
Where does the data come from and is it added manually?
From 2 comments
I assumed you would pull the javascript embedded in the target sites along with DNS records to see what services they are using. But where do you get Anyperks data from? Are you…
joewee on HNThey're manually adding this data.
austengary on HN
Alternatives named
BuiltWith
From 1 comment
www.builtwith.com seems to be pretty accurate, probably a good starting point for that information.
mcintyre1994 on HN
usesthis.com / weusethat.com
From 3 comments
This is pretty cool. There was a service a while back which seems to have died called weusethis. It also had interviews with the engineers at the startups detailing how they used…
daniel-levin on HNIt's not dead. It's alive and kicking: http://usesthis.com/
Popcorned on HNThis is similar in spirit to weusethat.com (itself modeled after usesthis.com), which I really liked but they stopped updating the content mid-past-december. Hopefully leanstack…
why-el on HN
StartHQ
From 1 comment
We are working on something similar at StartHQ. In addition to listing which services any given company uses, we've also been thinking of listing the technologies the services…
olegp on HN