This post hits the nail on the head. CrunchBase has been a neglected property for some time now, pretty much due to a lack of resources I think. The engineers before me did a terrific job on the app but given that TechCrunch has been and is a fairly small setup + revolving around editorial, CrunchBase hasn't always received the love it deserves. As an Engineer at TC now, I would like to chime in.
I joined TechCrunch to work on CrunchBase back in October soon after the AOL acquisition and became the only non-editorial/sales person in here. My energies were split across a multitude of things and I found little time to devote to CB.
Over the past month however, we have hired two more devs, one to work on the blog network side of things and another who will be working on CrunchBase full-time along with me.
The frequency of commits has already started to show and we will be pushing out a number of improvements and features over the next few weeks. Top of the list is scalability and performance improvement since speed has been a bottleneck. There are other neat things such as trends/charts and more data widgets that we'd like to deploy. We are also working on cleaning up data integrity.
In short, I think you will see noticeable progress on CrunchBase within a few weeks.
Will you be fixing the issue I tweeted about (http://twitter.com/#!/profitbaron/status/52940273524809728) with regards to companies getting acquired, after already being acquired and this information not being relayed properly in CrunchBase?
I joined TechCrunch to work on CrunchBase back in October soon after the AOL acquisition and became the only non-editorial/sales person in here. My energies were split across a multitude of things and I found little time to devote to CB.
Over the past month however, we have hired two more devs, one to work on the blog network side of things and another who will be working on CrunchBase full-time along with me.
The frequency of commits has already started to show and we will be pushing out a number of improvements and features over the next few weeks. Top of the list is scalability and performance improvement since speed has been a bottleneck. There are other neat things such as trends/charts and more data widgets that we'd like to deploy. We are also working on cleaning up data integrity.
In short, I think you will see noticeable progress on CrunchBase within a few weeks.