HackerNews Launches Analytics

Analytics of YC companies' launches on HackerNews
Parsing launches posts from news.ycombinator.com/launches
Companies growth-metrics parsing from growjo.com
For OSS products get GitHub statistics

• Extracts data fields from launches posts, such as:
  • company name, yc_batch, industry, short_description
  • is the product OSS
• Sentiment analysis of comments to launches
• Parsing company growth-metrics from growjo.com, such as:
  • revenue, employees, funding
• Parsing OSS products GitHub statistics: stars, forks
• Dashboard with launches analytics on Streamlit

Data processing is placed in a DAG-system - Dagster.io

Pipeline

Pipeline on Dagster

Streamlit Dashbord

This is analytics of YC Companies' launches in HackerNews:

• launch metrics like score, comments qty, etc
• top commented/scored industries & launches,
• top launch by selected metric
• correlation between launch metrics and company growth metrics
• more...

Deployed dashboard on Streamlit.Share (open in Chrome): https://m275g-hn-launches-analytics-streamlitstreamlit-app-dp1i7o.streamlitapp.com/