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Show HN: Free, unlimited LinkedIn profile saver

1 points by JimNamii 6y ago

JimNamii 6y ago
Hey I’m James from Namii, we’ve got the lofty goal of building the first complete AI sales rep. First though, we’ve built a free and unlimited tool to save all your contact and company data from your Linkedin prospecting lists - downloadable by CSV for upload to your CRM. If you’re an SDR, BDR or founder building prospecting lists for outbound sales with LinkedIn then this should be handy for you. We built this first for ourselves when we were trying to put together our first outbound campaigns to get customers for an early MVP. There was no free, simple and fast way to get our LinkedIn prospect lists into our CRM for campaigns. but.. what are you really doing? Well, glad you asked! It’s a journey to a complete AI sale rep and to train them up, the first step is getting data. When you use our free tools you’re also helping us curate that training data, together. We’re keen for feedback and happy to answer questions on sales, prospecting your first customers in B2B SaaS (or anywhere else really), or geek out about ML. I’m a coder turned sales leader and my co-founder Mitch is a published machine learning scientist. James linkedin: http://bit.ly/jlo-linkedin http://bit.ly/jlo-linkedin Mitch linkedin: http://bit.ly/scotty-linkedin http://bit.ly/scotty-linkedin
MitchNamii 6y ago
We're currently looking for Beta testers - if you're keen to try the first release of the product and give us feedback, then head to namii.ai and give it a whirl!
Hard_Space 6y ago
I think it would be better if the website provided information on pricing. Also, for HN, a Chrome-only extension is a hard sell. Perhaps a Firefox add-on is in the works.
- JimNamii 6y ago
  thanks Hard_Space - at the moment, it's all free. Yeah, good point and something for us to think about re the Chrome only extension
necovek 6y ago
Is this in compliance with LinkedIn terms of service? How do you manage GDPR requirements? You are storing personal information on your servers even though affected persons have no idea about it, and without agreeing to have their data processed by you. I doubt people using your services announce you as their data processor in GDPR terms to all their contacts on LinkedIn, so this seems very fishy to me. How do I request that you never store any information on me in your database? (your privacy policy deals with your customers' data only)
- JimNamii 6y ago
  Thanks necovek! TBH, LinkedIn probably won't be our biggest fan but there still remains a big gap between sales nav and CRMs that we're trying to fill. Our users need to make sure they use our tool responsibly. It's doing what they can already do manually and making it easier for them. We think we should be outside the bounds of GDPR as we don't do business in the EU, though as more and more jurisdictions setup similar legislation it's something we will need to keep in mind and probably need to have a good think about as we move forward. A simple fix may be to ask our users to acknowledge that they have permission to gather this data in certain cases or something of that nature? With LinkedIn data itself, public profiles are considered in the public domain though I'm not sure of the legal nuances of that and how that works with GDPR or how it may impact us in future. Being super fresh, we don't have a way for you to count yourself out. I'm wondering though, how do you presently deal with your data that has already been, or may be, collected by the myriad existing lead and data aggregation services?
  - necovek 6y ago
    Thanks for an honest reply. California has either already, or is in the process to introduce similar legislation, so you might need to worry about sooner than you might think. I personally don't make my profile public on any service (LinkedIn in particular), but with your product being a browser extension, it sounds as if it's not limited to public profiles, but profiles visible to the current user. In general, it is the responsibility of whoever might use your service to acquire permission from whomever they want to include in their databases, and to explicitely state what external data processors they use. You'd only be a data processor in that case, and you'd need to have a suitable contract with every customer, but IANAL, so take all this with a bucket of salt. There is no simple way to chase after anyone who might be keeping my personal data, so I ain't doing that, but if you end up popular, you may get some good will if you make it easy for people to directly opt out.
JimNamii 6y ago
here's our explainer video too: http://bit.ly/namii-explainer http://bit.ly/namii-explainer

1 points by JimNamii 6y ago

Hey I’m James from Namii, we’ve got the lofty goal of building the first complete AI sales rep. First though, we’ve built a free and unlimited tool to save all your contact and company data from your Linkedin prospecting lists - downloadable by CSV for upload to your CRM. If you’re an SDR, BDR or founder building prospecting lists for outbound sales with LinkedIn then this should be handy for you. We built this first for ourselves when we were trying to put together our first outbound campaigns to get customers for an early MVP. There was no free, simple and fast way to get our LinkedIn prospect lists into our CRM for campaigns. but.. what are you really doing? Well, glad you asked! It’s a journey to a complete AI sale rep and to train them up, the first step is getting data. When you use our free tools you’re also helping us curate that training data, together. We’re keen for feedback and happy to answer questions on sales, prospecting your first customers in B2B SaaS (or anywhere else really), or geek out about ML. I’m a coder turned sales leader and my co-founder Mitch is a published machine learning scientist. James linkedin: http://bit.ly/jlo-linkedin http://bit.ly/jlo-linkedin Mitch linkedin: http://bit.ly/scotty-linkedin http://bit.ly/scotty-linkedin

MitchNamii 6y ago

We're currently looking for Beta testers - if you're keen to try the first release of the product and give us feedback, then head to namii.ai and give it a whirl!

Hard_Space 6y ago

I think it would be better if the website provided information on pricing. Also, for HN, a Chrome-only extension is a hard sell. Perhaps a Firefox add-on is in the works.

JimNamii 6y ago
thanks Hard_Space - at the moment, it's all free. Yeah, good point and something for us to think about re the Chrome only extension

necovek 6y ago

Is this in compliance with LinkedIn terms of service? How do you manage GDPR requirements? You are storing personal information on your servers even though affected persons have no idea about it, and without agreeing to have their data processed by you. I doubt people using your services announce you as their data processor in GDPR terms to all their contacts on LinkedIn, so this seems very fishy to me. How do I request that you never store any information on me in your database? (your privacy policy deals with your customers' data only)

JimNamii 6y ago
Thanks necovek! TBH, LinkedIn probably won't be our biggest fan but there still remains a big gap between sales nav and CRMs that we're trying to fill. Our users need to make sure they use our tool responsibly. It's doing what they can already do manually and making it easier for them. We think we should be outside the bounds of GDPR as we don't do business in the EU, though as more and more jurisdictions setup similar legislation it's something we will need to keep in mind and probably need to have a good think about as we move forward. A simple fix may be to ask our users to acknowledge that they have permission to gather this data in certain cases or something of that nature? With LinkedIn data itself, public profiles are considered in the public domain though I'm not sure of the legal nuances of that and how that works with GDPR or how it may impact us in future. Being super fresh, we don't have a way for you to count yourself out. I'm wondering though, how do you presently deal with your data that has already been, or may be, collected by the myriad existing lead and data aggregation services?
- necovek 6y ago
  Thanks for an honest reply. California has either already, or is in the process to introduce similar legislation, so you might need to worry about sooner than you might think. I personally don't make my profile public on any service (LinkedIn in particular), but with your product being a browser extension, it sounds as if it's not limited to public profiles, but profiles visible to the current user. In general, it is the responsibility of whoever might use your service to acquire permission from whomever they want to include in their databases, and to explicitely state what external data processors they use. You'd only be a data processor in that case, and you'd need to have a suitable contract with every customer, but IANAL, so take all this with a bucket of salt. There is no simple way to chase after anyone who might be keeping my personal data, so I ain't doing that, but if you end up popular, you may get some good will if you make it easy for people to directly opt out.

JimNamii 6y ago

here's our explainer video too: http://bit.ly/namii-explainer http://bit.ly/namii-explainer