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Show HN: We solved our own problem and pivoted to the solution w Google API
Hey HN,
2 months ago I was cold calling to launch a startup idea. The problem was I was spending 2 hours every day manually putting together a list of businesses to call. I figured there’s got to be a better way.
So my co-founder and I got started on an app that rendered a map for us to select a location, a slider to change the radius of the area selected, an input for us to type in a keyword and a button to click to pull a list of results from the Google Places API. We clicked the button. Results loading. Less than a minute later we had the same amount of data that it was taking me 2 hours to put together previously.
We just saved 10+ hours per week. Then it dawned on us that this software would be valuable to others as well, so we polished it up and packaged it into LeadSnappr.
It was a super fun project. Really happy how it turned out. Unfortunately the API credits cost money each search so I can’t let you try it out for free but if you or anybody you know is spending time manually putting lists together to cold call for their startup, let them know about LeadSnappr.
- therjmurray 2y agoHey everyone, happy to answer any questions you have here! Thanks for checking out the project.
- mtmail 2y agoDownloading lists of addresses sounds too close to reselling Google Places data which would be against their terms-of-service. I deal a lot with geographic data and data licensing, Google Maps/Places is pretty strict. Maybe FourSquare, Yelp or other brokers allow reselling. Maybe you get around by only selling access to a too where the user assumed the legal responsibilty of download data but I wouldn't build a business around the data source. "you must not pre-fetch, index, store, or cache any Content except under the limited conditions stated in the terms." (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/policies https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-...) The limited conditions are basically to only display the result on a Google Map (not even other map providers are allowed).
- therjmurray 2y agoThanks for the heads up! What if the data was immediately served in the form of a .csv rather than stored?