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nickpinkston
For real - I'm super excited there's 1500+ of them!

Hardware is going crazy right now!

delinquentme
The SF density is incredible ! ... But I'm guessing there's some selection bias here ...
nickpinkston
Not really selection bias. It's the biggest scene in the world, so it's to be expected.

Still though - the density throughout the world is more amazing to me!

bsilvereagle
The small discussion happening on reddit is convinced upverter is using this as a lead generator.

http://www.reddit.com/22sflo

nickpinkston
Bad link - got another?

I think it's fine if they're doing it as a lead generator. If only more pro-social things would yield profit so that they would actually happen.

Or maybe, they did like we at CloudFab did, and opened up our hard-won supplier database of 3D printing shops after using it internally:

https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zkIlt1cSAfh4.kskl...

bsilvereagle
Link is fixed, missed a 2 when I copied it over.

I'm not necessarily agreeing with the discussion, just food for thought.

pedalpete
Would it make sense that companies in more than one location show up on the map in more than one place? NinjaBlocks main base is Sydney, but they have an office in SF, so they show up as SF.

Showing virtual offices and workers might do more to show how truly global hardware startups are.

Qworg
There's also at least a few companies on here that aren't startups - both Kiva Systems and Bot & Dolly jump out as startups that are now part of big companies (Amazon and Google respectively)
alexenzoperon
A new version of the map has been deployed. We receive lots of emails with more startups to include, they're pinned. There is also a full screen mode now, and links to the coolest hardware newsletter. Hope you enjoy!