Explore 6048 YC companies as an interactive galaxy
Shares rank 21 of 31 interactive visualizations by recommenders
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.
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.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 71%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Eye-pleasing, responsive UI and visuals
“Love the visualzation, the responsiveness, and the subtle labels and graph edges.”
Comment from 21 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: Explore 6048 YC companies as an interactive galaxy” “specially UI is eye pleasing”
Comment from 22 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: Explore 6048 YC companies as an interactive galaxy”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Thin cosmic theme, limited depth
“just mapping nodes on a 3d space and putting a cosmic barely thought out theme on it”
Comment from 21 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: Explore 6048 YC companies as an interactive galaxy” “but that's pretty much all to it”
Comment from 21 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: Explore 6048 YC companies as an interactive galaxy”
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The four most recommended other interactive visualizations, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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| ciechanow.ski | 33 | 1 | 97% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Size of Life | 30 | 4 | 88% | 2 | — | — |
| PGSimCity | 27 | 3 | 90% | 1 | — | — |
| Ithihāsas | 18 | 3 | 86% | 1 | — | — |
| Explore 6048 YC companies as an interactive galaxyThis page | 5 | 2 | 71% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
All 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“specially UI is eye pleasing”
“Nice view with sector wise grouping”
“it is a great way to explore cluster data but could be improved”
“Love the visualzation, the responsiveness, and the subtle labels and graph edges.”
“just mapping nodes on a 3d space and putting a cosmic barely thought out theme on it”
“Cool! it's a bit annoying that I am not able to drag with right button”
“but that's pretty much all to it”
“Cool idea, I have a couple of suggestions”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.