Voronoi

Discover data-driven visuals that help explain the world

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Data Visualization

Hi Product Hunt community! 👋 I'm excited to introduce Voronoi, a platform that makes the world's most interesting data easily discoverable through stunning visuals. Background Starting 13 years ago, I began bootstrapping the data storytelling website Visual Capitalist from scratch, with the goal of making data more understandable for everyone, especially around global trends relating to investing, business, demographics, and the global economy. But after doing this for a decade, the world has changed substantially, and our vision has evolved with it: 1. The world is awash in information, which has created an "information overload" dynamic. Available information is growing exponentially, yet people are having trouble discovering the right data and insights. 2. Like many of you, we have seen the world grow more and more polarized. We see a growing need for transparent, verifiably-sourced data at a large scale. One that people can rely on for trusted information about the world. 3. We realized we can't make a big dent in the data ecosystem by ourselves. Luckily, we've simultaneously witnessed the rise of many other incredible data storytellers and sources (Examples: Our World in Data, USAFacts, James Eagle, Chartr, Statista, etc.) as well as awesome indie solo creators. We want to enable them to do more! 4. Finally, although many of these creators post their work on existing social platforms, there is currently no ecosystem that caters to the data creator community exclusively. We believe creating this "home" for data storytellers is crucial. So over the last two years, we've been building our data storytelling platform Voronoi with all this in mind, and today we launch it here! We'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback. What's Voronoi? It's a free platform that aims to make the world's most interesting data more discoverable, by putting data stories from top creators in one easy place. What are other key things to know about Voronoi? - It's built for data lovers and data creators. For each visualization on the platform, you can see the data behind it, including the original data source and notes. We (and our community) help verify all data and sourcing, to ensure data is reliable and trustworthy - We see this as a creator economy platform, where eventually we can provide monetization options to third-party data creators, allowing them to focus more on their craft - We also see it as enabling data discovery across a wide variety of topics and subjects (news, current events, culture, politics, etc.), however you'll notice if you download the app now we still have largely a business/tech/investing focus. This is a "crossing the chasm" moment that will have to happen later How's Voronoi funded? We started working on the platform after a Kickstarter round from Visual Capitalist fans and subscribers in 2022 (link included in links section), and then we've bootstrapped additionally from there. We have not taken any venture capital funding to this point for either Visual Capitalist or Voronoi. Why did you choose the name Voronoi? The platform is named to honor Ukrainian mathematician Georgy Voronoy, who popularized the Voronoi diagram. It's a concept used in data visualization, among many other fields. What's in the product pipeline? It's still early days, and we have a lot of work to do. Here are key things in the short-to-medium term pipeline: - Launch of a web app version that fully ties into existing mobile platform - Motion graphic videos and slideshows - Ability to deeply customize your own feed and algorithm (currently the algo is very simple, but it will have to evolve as we have more data/visualizations on there) - Adding monetization options for creators - A focus on data discoverability (contextual and visual search options, AI-assisted, etc.) - Dark mode (of course) Thank you for your time! I'll be available to answer questions on anything you like (about Voronoi or VC) starting at 8am PDT! I also have two key people from our product team (Nick and Armen) that will be available to answer questions too. We look forward to and appreciate your feedback.