Sorry, what I was clumsily trying to say is something like: "As an outsider to the startup world, your project has made me curious about the shape of the startup ecosystem as a whole. I bet you have the data to generate that picture! It is unfortunate that our market system is not yet sophisticated enough to compensate people for the difficult/valuable work of data collection, while also maximizing availability of data for those curious to use it."
At first I did not explore the tree visualizations in your web app: I simply noticed an index of company trees. Using the tree visualizer (which shows founders' names and pictures), I immediately realized that these trees represent complex human stories involving thousands of years of individual people's hard work. Interpreted that way, the data deserve a degree of awed respect that I did not show in my original comment. Truly sorry for that.
If you're curious about the shape of the startup ecosystem the way I am, there are a few things you could try. (In what follows I'm assuming "full graph" means company-company links with timestamps, not stories about individual people). pyvis has a feature that allows you to build a static html file with an embedded interactive representation of a graph. The data is embedded in the file, so you might not be able to share that unless you dropped enough information to conform such sharing to your data license. IIRC the static file has limited query/filter functionality so it can be difficult to make large graphs manageable for visualization. If that happens you can try using a graph database with a query UI. I remember another HN submission last year that (IIRC) used neo4j as a backend and provided a web UI with this kind of query/visualize workflow. I believe they also shared Github repos with the front-end/back-end code.
Anyway, thank you for sharing your project and sorry for the shit comment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066060
