Evolvr.io - IMDb for products & companies.

@arjun59 I like what the guys at evolvr.io are doing! I have a website already setup with snapshots of startups from the Internet Archive, you can check it out at http://www.StartupTimelines.org/ if you like it consider donating to the IA - great cause to support

@arjun59 Hello Arjun, Thank for the suggestion. Yes. We're exploring that option too. To add them to the Timeline. I'll personally reach out to you once we release that feature and probably get you on beta-testers group! 😊

@bakztfuture Bakz, We checked out Startup Timelines, and loved the design of it. Really well crafted! 👍

@imkarthikk awesome to hear :D always exciting to see people interested in the history of different startups

@bakztfuture I believe that there's a need for that. In terms of learning how some companies/products grew over time. If there's someone working on something, I think products like these would help them make the right choice without having to waste time doing the same mistake. 😊

@josh_jia_chen That's also in the plan. We really want Evolvr.io to be the platform for the users to express their emotion about a product they use everyday. We're going to be rolling out a lot of new features in the days to come and beyond! 🙌

@imkarthikk sounds great, I think such platform is as helpful to developers as yelp to small business owners. wish you all the best

@josh_jia_chen Thank you so much Josh! And yes, that's exactly where our focus is! :)

@nextgenguy Hey Vignesh, Evolvr.io would definitely help reporters to get data. Some interesting things like embeddable widgets are on its way. We'll share the timeline for those releases on our own Evolvr.io page. 👍 Answering your questions: 1. Currently, we are doing it manually. But we would like to automate the entire process in the next release. That's being tested internally at Skcript. We believe that web scrapers are not something that would suit Evolvr.io. We don't want to just copy paste someone else's work. Instead, we want to craft it ourself. And allow the product owners to put their heart and soul into creating and crafting their company/product profiles on Evolvr.io. 2. API's are currently in alpha. But we might need some more companies and products in our DB to open up API to large scape developers. We love supporting developers and if someone would need an API for their own use, we're ready to test out with limited set of creators. Talking about the design. We've sat down for hours and hours thinking about the design elements. And believe it or not, over the past few months, we've made nearly 40 design iterations and started out from the scratch. Ultimately, we want to use Evolvr.io ourself. And we love using some of the best designed products. Evolvr.io is a reflection of that burning desire. 🙌

@imkarthikk After Engadget got GDGT, I think there has not been a single good alternative for embeddable widgets which we could use. Good to know that there's something coming up. Also by web scrapers, you could probably use it to get the bare minimum amount of data and then build on it manually. This way you'll be able to add a lot more companies including the lesser known ones.

@nextgenguy We all loved GDGT. Those days were golden. Their Live Blogs, the design and their database. Wow! True. We're trying to get CrunchBase's API. But fingers crossed. Let's see how things go. If we're not able to get the API access, we will have to add them manually, which is still fine at this point I guess! ☺️

@eliservescent Hello Elisa, Nice to know that you like the design. 👍 We believe that emotion does come into play with any product that you use in your daily life. For example, when you see a picture of your friend with a wedding dress on Facebook, you smile. Also, whenever a developer of product owner is working on their product, there are a lot of emotions that come into play. We want to let the product owners express their emotion in someway on a platform. That's one of the reason why Evolvr.io was born. Here are the answers: 1. Besides UI, I think there are a lot of differences. Crunchbase, for example does not allow the users of a particular product to comment and we think its one-way. Also, MakerBase is aimed (probably) towards the makers and not the companies / products yet. 2. What we've been seeing is that the product owners are the ones who're creating and moderating Evolvr.io. We believe that many of the Tweets (for example) gets unnoticed when people appreciate or hate some feature of a product that recently got updated. We wanted a platform for those users to feel one step closer to the makers. Hope I answered your questions Elisa. If there's anything more I could help you with, I'd be glad to do that.

@imkarthikk Thanks for the reply! I think you're right that MakerBase is very person-oriented, and I like the idea of a Crunchbase+comments. But I'm not seeing comments on the site right now - is that a feature you'll roll out at some point in the future? It's not clear to me who's meant to be expressing emotion, or of what kind, besides 'likes'.

@eliservescent The comments are limited to the moderators right now. We will be opening up comments to more users in the coming weeks. We wanted Evolvr.io to be a platform to express their emotion of both the product owners and the end-users. You might not clearly see that right now, but as time progresses, I'm pretty sure that'll come to light. 😊

@laurendorman Nice to know that you liked the UI and the depth of information on Evolvr.io. People are adding new companies that they own every single minute, and its super exciting. We are bringing in more relationships to the platform, and I'm pretty sure you'll find it useful as the time goes. The next update will have "recommended for you", and "what you missed" features! 😁

@nlukka Hey Neel. Currently, people can add their own companies from the option in the menubar. And once they create their profile, we look at it, improve it, and approve the profile immediately. But we are improving the process in the following weeks, with integrations with Google Apps and such, where someone signs-in with their company email, and we pick the company info on-the-fly. 😁 We definitely have a huge road-map ahead, and we definitely want to bridge the information gap that startups have. Featuring the amazing people behind a product/company is already there for company profile like Product Hunt: https://www.evolvr.io/e/tech/com... Email confirmation is something we're working on right now. We want to make sure that the process is super easy, and UI/UX is something we give a lot of damns about.

@jordigg Hello Jordi, thanks for that. We noticed the issue. GitHub is currently experiencing a DDoS that's preventing our production push. This issue should be resolved in a very short while! 👍

@jordigg Jordi, Just wanted to let you know that we've fixed the issue with the timeline arrangement. 😁

@companytrends That's exactly what we're trying to do. We really want to give the idea about where Evolvr.io is heading, in the next few iterations to come. Some of the companies might not have complete information, but we are filling them up real-fast. 👍