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ExploreYC — app walkthrough
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export async function test(page, baseUrl, screenshotPath, stepLogger) {
const shot = (n, s) => screenshotPath.replace('.png', '-' + n + '-' + s + '.png');
const SCROLL_THROUGH = "(async () => { const ease = t => 1 - Math.pow(1 - t, 3); const max = Math.max(0, document.body.scrollHeight - window.innerHeight); if (max < 40) return; const anim = (a, b, ms) => new Promise(res => { const t0 = performance.now(); const step = now => { const p = Math.min(1, (now - t0) / ms); window.scrollTo(0, a + (b - a) * ease(p)); p < 1 ? requestAnimationFrame(step) : res(); }; requestAnimationFrame(step); }); await anim(0, max, 1200); await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 300)); await anim(max, 0, 700); })()";
await page.context().setExtraHTTPHeaders({ 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36' });
// Inject the authenticated dev_token into localStorage before any app script runs
await page.addInitScript(() => { try { localStorage.setItem('dev_token', 'P0wme4OnpEswcCQhMbR0imtKK7LcNQkbHed096YbiR0'); localStorage.setItem('darkMode', 'false'); } catch (e) {} });
for (const pattern of ['**/cdn-cgi/scripts/**/email-decode.min.js','**/sentry-cdn.com/**','**/browser.sentry-cdn.com/**','**/cdn.segment.com/**','**/connect.facebook.net/**','**/*.posthog.com/**']) {
await page.route(pattern, r => r.abort()).catch(function(){});
}
let n = 0;
// ---------- PUBLIC PHASE ----------
await page.goto(baseUrl + '/', { waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded' });Checks run
Notes from the demo run
AI-generatedExploreYC nails a developer-terminal aesthetic ('$ startup-db', monospace, dark). Signup drops you straight into the product with no email-verify step, and the core Companies Database is genuinely rich: 8,290 companies across YC + a16z, filterable by source/batch/industry/country with a live result count, plus a developer dashboard for API keys and clean API docs.
- Zero-friction onboardingEmail+password signup lands directly on /dashboard — no verification wall between a visitor and the data.
- Dense, filterable dataset8,290 companies, 1,530 hiring, 50 batches — filters (source/batch/industry/country) recompute a result count instantly. This is the product and it shows well.
- API-first designA developer dashboard with generatable API keys + dedicated API docs signals the real audience is builders, not browsers.
- Core export is disabledThe Database footer reads 'Data export (CSV / JSON) is paused while we rebuild it' and the export button just links to a feature-request — the headline value action is currently a dead end for signups who came to export.
- Session token lives in localStorageAuth is a 'dev_token' in localStorage rather than an HttpOnly cookie; moving it to an HttpOnly cookie would harden it against XSS token theft.
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