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Show HN: ContactOut – Find Anyone's Email and Phone#
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- hughes 10y agoCan you tell us a bit about how it works? Or what has changed over the last year since you first deployed it?
- robertaoliu 10y agowe crawl the web and index emails, then link them to names / social profiles. Have gotten 3x more emails since we initially launched last year.
- applecrazy 10y agoNice app and website, but I don't see the benefit of using a Chrome extension versus a normal browser web app. I understand that you can use it to find the phone number of a person on your current webpage, but I think it should be secondary to the web app. Especially since you're targeting business users, you should create a polished webapp for them. Also, I think many HN users would agree with me on the issue of privacy. In order to use the extension, I need to grant it permission to read and write data on all websites that I visit. Not saying you're evil, but this means (in theory) you could sell by browsing history, my interests, or even my data (again, not talking about you, but in general).
- robertaoliu 10y agoI am targeting recruiters, hence it's a chrome extension, to be used with Linkedin
- scoot 10y agoGet ready for GDPR. 1. You need consent to handle PII (doesn't matter that you scraped it) 2. Massive fines for data breaches Good luck!
- brazzledazzle 10y agoI know this is just using what's publicly available but I do feel mildly creeped out. But since I'm not the target market that's probably an endorsement.
- initself 10y agoI just tried 3 random contacts using a premium account, no dice on the email or phone number.
- username223 10y agoThis just looks like the same address-scraping that spammers have been using since the 90s, plus some half-assed attempt to link them to real names. People who want to be contacted will make it easy to do so; those who don't, won't. Are you actually proud of having created this thing?
- rhubarbquid 10y agoWow, that's super creepy This looks like dream tool for stalkers
- dsl 10y agoWhere is the opt-out?
- robertaoliu 10y agolol much controversy
- jjjjeshy 10y agoIts a bit scary, but totally useful. I tested it with people I know, and looks like people who use different emails for fb/linkedin tend not to have as much info available. But the number of mobile phones you have on there is crazy.