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Re: Show HN: Yolodex – real-time customer enrichment API

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Post by ahofmann »

I tested my main email account, and it found the wrong country, and in that country the wrong person (wrong name).

Then I tested the email address of my boss, where it found a few fields of the company (address and business type), but not the person.

Then I tried a complete bogus address and still got a "success" but without meaningful data:

{ "success": true, "email": "hjd28ebsgis63kdnrzdg@gmail.com", "enrichment_data": { "entity_type": "person", "name": "Hjd", "age": null, "age_source": null, "gender": "other", "gender_source": "inferred", "city": null, "state": null, "country": null, "country_code": null, "occupation": null, "occupation_category": null, "role_seniority": null, "company": null, "company_category": null, "business_email": null, "personal_email": "hjd28ebsgis63kdnrzdg@gmail.com", "personal_phone": null, "work_phone": null, "high_school": null, "university": null, "instagram_handle": null, "instagram_followers": null, "tiktok_handle": null, "tiktok_followers": null, "twitter_handle": null, "twitter_followers": null, "youtube_handle": null, "youtube_followers": null, "linkedin_handle": null, "linkedin_followers": null, "interests": null, "interests_category": null }, "enriched_at": "2025-11-27T07:46:44.878Z", "credits_used": 0, "credits_remaining": 97, "cached": false, "request_id": "d5254e79-6f25-4fbf-b021-24539c97b636", "timestamp": "2025-11-27T07:46:44.878Z" }

This tool could be useful, but right now, it isn't. Its like a LLM from 2024: looks impressive on the surface, but is not usable for daily work.

Re: Show HN: Yolodex – real-time customer enrichment API

#14

Post by hazzadous »

ahofmann wrote: post #13

I tested my main email account, and it found the wrong country, and in that country the wrong person (wrong name). Then I tested the email address of my boss, where it found a few fields of the company (address and business type), but not the person. Then I tried a complete bogus address and still got a "success" but without meaningful data: { "success": true, "email": "hjd28ebsgis63kdnrzdg@gmail.com", "enrichment_da…

Some work to do on precision and recall. Thanks for testing it out. Hah yes 2024 llm sounds right.

I’m interested in what you think you’d use it for if you don’t mind sharing, and what you would benchmark it against.

Re: Show HN: Yolodex – real-time customer enrichment API

#18

Post by hazzadous »

pheouk wrote: post #6

I tested with a fairly old (10+ year) gmail account and every field other than the full name came back as null which is surprising, will try a few more tests and see how i go, but that wasnt the expected result :)

Let me know how you get on with the testing. And if you have a use case let me know and i can look at optimising for it

Re: Show HN: Yolodex – real-time customer enrichment API

#19

Post by hazzadous »

N_Lens wrote: post #10

Same experience as others here - shows nulls on most fields even for my commonly used, public facing email addresses.

Hmm surprising you’re not getting anything for public emails. Hit rates can be low but not expected in those cases. Are you using anything else currently for the same task

Re: Show HN: Yolodex – real-time customer enrichment API

#20

Post by hazzadous »

warthog wrote: post #7

what would be the difference of this vs using an API like Apollo?

Pretty similar except maybe you’ll get lots more nulls judging by the other comments! Cheaper but nulls. Will need to work on the recall a bit. But also potentially based on use case feedback maybe look at other niches and features
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