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lifecreator
Do you have a plan on monetizing this?
bozkan
Currently, no. I may consider it as a traffic resource to my other projects.
kotlinmaster
Appreciate your huge effort. Why did you decide to curate such a list?
bozkan
I've recently applied to many programs with my startup, Episolo.com, which is a marketplace for startup mentorship. When I realized my bookmark list was too long just for me, I decided to make a simple website and share them with other people.
hamid_ra
Great resource for founders and to be founders! I bet a lot of people here including myself will find it very useful!
hamid_ra
Also a feedback. Since you’ve already put the effort to make it a website it might be worth add a filter tab/button so the users can filter them based on different dimensions(e.x city, equity, ...)
bozkan
This feedback came from many other people including my wife, so my next task is certain now:) I will add a filter based on multiple variants.
bozkan
I am glad you found it useful, thanks!
santa_boy
yep! +1 ... thanks OP ... very timely!
acosmism
masschallenge appears to be missing from the list. is this only targeting for-profit accelerators?
bozkan
no, it is targeting any type of accelerators & incubator. my fault, forgot it. Thanks a lot for reminding me!
davidajackson
Any way to add a "legitimacy" metric, whether that's notable companies, company success rate, total market cap of graduated companies, etc.
breck
This would be cool. Founding year and # of companies would be helpful. I think these are a long game and a lot of them seem to fade out after 3-4 batches.
bozkan
Agree, there are hundreds of programs in F6S, shut down in a year or so, but still their applications are open. That's one of the reasons I wanted to curate such a list, which will be up-to-date all year.
bozkan
This is among my to-do list, as many people requested such metrics. I will add them asap. If you subscribe to the e-mail list from the website, whenever I add those metrics or any other update, you'll be notified about all.
harrisreynolds
+1 to this request and [years in business, companies funded and unicorns/exits]

This is great for founders... I'm working on a tool for founders to create apps without writing code [1] and anything that gives founders leverage with capital or time is critical to success.

[1] https://www.webase.com

bozkan
I will add all these features soon, thanks for the feedback. Your product seems an interesting tool, good luck!
UnusualTan
Nice list. It'd be nice to have a few more filters though.
bozkan
thanks! Filters are on the way, will be live in 1-2 days!
breck
A perhaps useful next step would be a “common app” to fill out one application and apply to all of these at once.
bozkan
Someone else also had suggested it. Then I started contacting some accelerators about such a feature. They seemed very interested in it.

It is a bit challenging to implement, but would be very useful. After your feedback, this feature is now validated, and among my todo list!

breck
Cool. Happy to provide feedback (maybe even some implementation help if that would be helpful) as this might be something I would use and certainly would recommend it to folks. The SUS community would love this, I think, though I suspect you’ve already talked about it in there.
bozkan
Sorry for answering you so late Breck. I realized I missed your reply (I was trying to recover from some painful flu)

It would be great to get more feedback and any kind of help. I am now contacting you by e-mail. Thanks!

gshdg
Have you considered a filter by location?
bozkan
Yes, filtering by multiple factors such as location, categor etc. is the most requested feature. It is nearly finished and will be available soon.