lol much controversy
Show HN: ContactOut – Find Anyone's Email and Phone#
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Re: Show HN: ContactOut – Find Anyone's Email and Phone#
#12Nice 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 pri…
I am targeting recruiters, hence it's a chrome extension, to be used with Linkedin
Re: Show HN: ContactOut – Find Anyone's Email and Phone#
#13Can you tell us a bit about how it works? Or what has changed over the last year since you first deployed it?
we crawl the web and index emails, then link them to names / social profiles. Have gotten 3x more emails since we initially launched last year.
Re: Show HN: ContactOut – Find Anyone's Email and Phone#
#14Its 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.
Re: Show HN: ContactOut – Find Anyone's Email and Phone#
#15Nice 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 pri…
Get 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!