Atlas — atlaselevatr.in
Find work on the problems you care about. The world's problems, the startups solving them, and their open roles. An Elevatr Ventures initiative.
- Atlas map: World → continent → country. Each layer shows the unicorns, the problems they solved, problems people raised there, and every startup in that place by category.
- Startup directory (
/startups): ~9,700 startups: 4,000 Indian (including all 131 Indian unicorns) and 5,700 from other countries (Y Combinator companies and 1,000+ global unicorns). Filter by category, city and search. Founders can list their startup at /startups/add (reviewed in /admin).
- Add a problem: no login or sign-up. Problem, industry, country and how you'd solve it, with spam protection built in.
- Leaderboard: problems ranked by votes (one vote per person per problem), with filters and an industry breakdown. Starts with 50+ problems from public sources (Razorpay Fix My Itch, WHO, UN SDGs, World Bank, UNICEF, UNEP).
- Problem pages (
/problems/ID): anyone can suggest a solution or comment, and mark suggestions as helpful.
- Want to build this?: on every problem, would-be founders leave their details, stage, commitment and what help they need. Leads land in
/admin → Builders, with status tracking, notes and CSV export.
- Status (
/status): shows whether each one-time data load has finished.
- Jobs: up to 50 curated problem-solving roles. Each Apply button opens the original LinkedIn / IIM Jobs posting.
- Invite codes: anyone gets a personal share link (
/r/CODE). Visits, people who join and problems they add are credited to the inviter.
- This happens to me (proof): on every problem, people share a one-line story, how often it happens, whether they'd pay for a fix and who it hits. It also counts as their vote. A problem is validated at 10 stories + 1 builder claim (
VALIDATION in lib/constants.js).
- Startup engine (
lib/engine.js): every problem is matched against the ~9,700 startups with Postgres full-text search (keywords from the problem, boosted for same industry, same country and unicorns). Problem pages show "Who's solving this" with a CTA to /problems/ID/startups (all matches, grouped by country). It runs automatically when a problem is added. Anyone can add a missing startup there: one already in the directory is linked at once; a new one is reviewed in /admin and then joins the main directory, linked to the problem.
- Gap finder (
/gaps): problems ranked by unmet demand: (votes + 2 × stories + 4 × builders) ÷ (1 + startups already working on it in that country). Labels: open whitespace, gap in country, thin, crowded.
- Claims and Builders board (
/builders): "Want to build this?" can be made public. Public builders get a card (first name, city, stage, needs, headline; never contact details), post progress updates from the same browser, and others ask for an intro (handled by the team in /admin → Intro requests). Setting a lead to "in studio" shows a studio-pick badge.
- Share cards: each problem has a generated image (
opengraph-image.js) and WhatsApp / LinkedIn / X / copy buttons. Links carry the sharer's invite code.
- Sign-in and weekly digest: email magic links (no passwords) at
/signin, a "My Atlas" page at /me, and a weekly email of top problems, new problems and gaps for a chosen country and industries, sent every Monday 9:00 IST by Vercel Cron (vercel.json). Needs RESEND_API_KEY, EMAIL_FROM and CRON_SECRET.
- v3 flow (one loop): Face it → Validate → Gap check → Raise → Claim → Studio.
- I face this is the single action on a problem: it counts the person once (a vote) and then offers an optional one-line story (proof). The old separate vote and "This happens to me" buttons are merged (
components/FacePanel.jsx).
- Problems (
/problems) has tabs: Most faced · Gaps (no one building) · Newest · Discover, plus search and a country filter. /gaps and /builders redirect.
- Stages on every card: Open → Validated (10 stories) → Claimed (a builder) → In studio (
problemStage in lib/constants.js).
- Duplicate check: Add a problem shows similar live problems as you type (
/api/problems/similar).
- Follow a problem by email: people hear when someone claims it or suggests a fix (
lib/follow.js, needs RESEND_API_KEY).
- Studio (
/studio): how the loop works, biggest gaps, what builders get, and the builders board.
- One startup form for the directory and for problem pages; the raiser's idea is pinned in the solutions thread; jobs can be tagged to an industry or problem and show on problem pages; sign-in can also switch on the weekly digest; the invite card lives in My Atlas.
- Admin (
/admin): add/pause/delete jobs, hide or delete problems, add or edit unicorns.
Jobs on problems you care about (v9)
The core of Atlas: find work on the problems you care about.
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