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As a founder of one of the first ycombinator funded companies, and human nature being what it is, I was interested in seeing how the sites of the other ycombinator companies were doing. Obviously, reddit is kicking ass on alexa, with a one week average rank of 4,096:

My own Kiko, doing a fraction of reddit's traffic, is at 17,822 this week. The weekend's kill us on alexa (apparently no one uses their calendar on the weekend!):

Infogami (now along with reddit part of not a bug) is following close behind at 23,757. Infogami exploded when it launched at the beginning of March:

Clickfacts, which just got a new site design not too long ago, is at 385,717 this week:

textpayme, which launched earlier this year, is at 552,642 this week:

Simmery seems to be dead now. Alexa thinks so too:

Obviously, alexa ranking is more relevent to some of these companies than others. The primary usage indicator of some of these companies' products, like reddit and infogami, is page views. Kiko, an online calendar, usually doesn't serve very many pages per visitor. Clickfacts and textpayme's websites are really only for supporting their primary product.

Let's add some of the companies from this year's Winter Founders Program into the mix. As far as I know, the WFP companies that have sites are wufoo (45,616), flagr (62,639), youos (113,331), pixoh (25,936), inkling (129,927), and audiobeta.

Out of all of these, pixoh (which is pretty awesome btw) is killing it. The WFP companies have only been working for 4 months at this point, so comparison to the SFP companies (who got a six month lead) is hardly fair. Who will rise to the top in the future? Only time will tell.

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