# Explore 6048 YC companies as an interactive galaxy

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Explore 6048 YC companies as an interactive galaxy and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People praise its eye-pleasing, responsive 3D interface and sector grouping for exploring YC company data. Critics say the cosmic theme is thin and the site could be improved.

## Why people recommend it

- Eye-pleasing, responsive UI and visuals (2 comments): "Love the visualzation, the responsiveness, and the subtle labels and graph edges." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996031)) "specially UI is eye pleasing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008662))

## What people warn about

- Thin cosmic theme, limited depth (2 comments): "just mapping nodes on a 3d space and putting a cosmic barely thought out theme on it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993470)) "but that's pretty much all to it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993057))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Explore 6048 YC companies as an interactive galaxy", https://hackerapproved.com/p/explore-6048-yc-companies-as-an-interactive-galaxy/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).