Startup Research 2

AI cofounder that estimates competitor revenue, analyzes growth, and guides business decisions. Minaco is an AI cofounder for competitor intelligence and business decisions. One subscription brings together the core capabilities founders use across Similarweb, Semrush, Ahrefs, Sensor Tower, and other research platforms. Ask Minaco about a competing product to estimate its revenue, user base, profitability, and growth. It cross-checks payment-platform and website traffic, search and social signals, and a proprietary database of real startup cases to produce a transparent revenue estimate, show how it was derived, and reveal how the competing product acquires customers. Minaco turns these insights into decisions on positioning, pricing, acquisition, and competitive response. Over time, it learns from your context and past choices—thinking with you and acting for you.

AI-powered wiki of failed YC startups providing post-mortems and technical rebuild playbooks. Startups.RIP is a comprehensive research platform and wiki featuring over 1,700 Y Combinator startups that have either shut down or been acquired. It utilizes an AI research agent to provide detailed post-mortems explaining what these companies built, why they failed, and what has changed in the market since then. For active builders, it offers 'rebuild playbooks' and implementation-ready technical specifications that can be directly used with AI coding agents like Claude Code or Cursor to iterate on validated market ideas with a fresh perspective.