Restarted

About Restarted

Create. Grow. Analyze.

In the maker’s words

The original startup website generator by Tiff Zhang and Mike Bradley landed on Hacker News in April 2015 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9427856 ) and has been one of my favorite little novelties of that era ever since. It perfectly captures the saturated colors, cliché hero shots, gimmicky names, buzzword-heavy slogans, and proudly hirsute team photos of the time. A lot has changed since then, so I thought it would be fun to make a contemporary remake: https://restarted.io/ By default you get the minimalist aesthetic and clean-cut faces of 2026. The classic 2015 look is still available — just click the link at the bottom of the page or change the “z” parameter in the URL to the more familiar “s”. The universe of partner sites and competing startups is just as expansive as it ever was. The original site is entirely client-side and requires downloading all of the data tables local…

Where people found it

• Hacker NewsShow HN: Restarted – a 2026 remake of the classic 2015 startup generator26 points9 comments19 days ago