Astro Hacker News - Show HN: I made a heatmap of 3400 VCs who are open to cold emails

Ecco |next [-]

For some reason all the datapoints seems to be shifted a few miles south-west.

west_subject |root |parent [-]

i think the mapcn package i'm using. i think it's best if change it, honestly. it got mangled up, when i started plotting a certain number of pins.

spiralcoaster |next |previous [-]

You have some kind of bias in the dataset or the visualization. It's showing places in "Boston" to be south east of the city in a completely different location.

west_subject |root |parent |next [-]

it's the mapcn package i'm using. after i plotted 300 points, the spacing got fucked up. just the spacing tho. everything else works.

syndacks |root |parent |previous [-]

Jamaica Bay has _all_ the VCs in NYC!

west_subject |root |parent [-]

please dont kill me, it's the package i'm using. i'll use a better one when i get the time.

mushufasa |next |previous [-]

Marc Andreessen: "The warm intro is the first test."

west_subject |root |parent [-]

well, you might find someone on this list, who might be connected to a GP at a16z. cant discount that idea.

victorbjorklund |next |previous [-]

Link does not work

ngsevers |root |parent |next [-]

I’m still getting DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN for apparent.social from Thailand. Might be a DNS propagation or regional DNS issue?

west_subject |root |parent |previous [-]

https://apparent.social/heat-map

sorry if you had some trouble opening it up.

AndrewKemendo |next |previous [-]

Were previously open to cold emails

west_subject |root |parent [-]

well, this solves their biggest problem of sourcing newer startups. which is the whole reason they made their emails public. they're def open to newer ideas and startups that they could fund.

pkoird |next |previous [-]

Does the post explain how the data was obtained? Or is it simply some kind of scraped list to get attention?

west_subject |root |parent [-]

i collected and curated it over the months. Also, what attention? this is free for all. always will be.

pkoird |root |parent [-]

i'm sorry, I meant attention of the project (as in surfacing it). It'd be worth specifying your methodology somewhere in the page. That is arguably an important piece of important.

sixhobbits |next |previous [-]

And here's a similar list of 3400 VCs who suddenly find themselves a lot less open to cold email

https://apparent.social/heat-map

west_subject |root |parent [-]

i dont think so tbh. they willingly made their emails open to the public. they have a sourcing problem for all we know

high_byte |next |previous [-]

would be nice to be able to simply get the list instead of having an ominous heatmap

west_subject |root |parent [-]

I will make it happen tonight. keep in touch.

baddash |next |previous [-]

all the chicago ones are swimming out in lake michigan

irishcoffee |root |parent |next [-]

All the Annapolis ones must be on their yachts in the bay

west_subject |root |parent |next [-]

it's the map package that i'm using. it's they got mangled up.

west_subject |root |parent |previous [-]

lmaooo

west_subject |root |parent |previous [-]

LMAO yes, so are the bay area ones. I used mapcn ,which is a free tool to make those pins. it kinda got mangled up in the process.

comrade1234 |next |previous [-]

I will fund this!

west_subject |root |parent [-]

reach out comrade. happy to talk. hello@apparent.social

philippz |next |previous [-]

great, this helps no one

west_subject |root |parent [-]

well, this helps people who're having trouble finding out public facing email addresses of investors at various VC firms. thought i'd make it easier for founders to reach out to GPs and angels who'd wanna talk.

Danii27 |previous [-]

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