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Ninite

YC Winter 2008 Active

Simple third-party app patching and deployment for Windows.

http://ninite.com ↗
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YC company pages list founders in page JSON, but we only scrape a capped slice of the directory. Pull this slug with .venv/bin/python run_sourcing.py --sources yc_founders --slugs ninite then re-ingest. Open on YC ↗

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