Announcing Clearbit Connect

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Post by uptown » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 3:55 PM UTC

Announcing Clearbit Connect
blog.clearbit.com

Re: Announcing Clearbit Connect

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Post by samlinkl » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 4:47 PM UTC

Announcing Rapportive ... again.

Re: Announcing Clearbit Connect

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Post by gk1 » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 4:52 PM UTC

This will never be as useful as Rapportive without having LinkedIn as a data source. And since LinkedIn owns Rapportive and is probably not keen to share that data with a competitor, I don't see that happening any time soon.

Re: Announcing Clearbit Connect

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Post by maxpupmax » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 5:14 PM UTC

I'm one of the 7000 Connect beta users and would like to say that I'm very happy with it.

Other commenters are comparing this to Rapportive. LinkedIn has discontinued Rapportive and this is an excellent substitute.

So far the hit rate for finding emails has been about 80 - 85% in my experience.

As an aside: I think Clearbit's building a really excellent suite of APIs, and Connect is only the icing on the cake.

Re: Announcing Clearbit Connect

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Post by fblp » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 5:22 PM UTC

gk1 wrote: post #3

This will never be as useful as Rapportive without having LinkedIn as a data source. And since LinkedIn owns Rapportive and is probably not keen to share that data with a competitor, I don't see that happening any time soon.

I have ran connect side by side with rapportive during the beta and have not noticed any data gaps. There are other sources of data beyond linkedin.

Re: Announcing Clearbit Connect

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Post by oni0n56 » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 5:22 PM UTC

I've been using the beta in my gmail for a while and the attention to detail is so amazing.

Re: Announcing Clearbit Connect

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Post by whatnotests » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 5:47 PM UTC

I built a similar tool back in 2010 - for gmail, yahoo mail and hotmail.

It was a browser plugin for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.

I learned a lot about Gmail's DOM (it's highly obfuscated) and how terrible the plugin-writer's experience is for Internet Explorer.

After six months of promotion on peoplesmart.com as an add-on to allow our users to get more information about the people in their email conversations, we had about twenty users total.

The project was scrapped, and I moved on to my next thing.

Perhaps it was just timing. Best of luck!

Re: Announcing Clearbit Connect

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Post by gailees » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 6:47 PM UTC

Does anyone else think it's scary that they are asking everyone on the community plan to share all of their business contacts? (https://www.dropbox.com/s/uuq96vivlbbrrak/Screenshot%202016-...)

Definitely stopped me from signing up to give it a try.

Re: Announcing Clearbit Connect

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Post by niccolop » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 7:05 PM UTC

maxpupmax wrote: post #4

I'm one of the 7000 Connect beta users and would like to say that I'm very happy with it. Other commenters are comparing this to Rapportive. LinkedIn has discontinued Rapportive and this is an excellent substitute. So far the hit rate for finding emails has been about 80 - 85% in my experience. As an aside: I think Clearbit's building a really excellent suite of APIs, and Connect is only the icing on the cake.

Has Rapportive been discontinued? It still works for me.

Or do you mean Linkedin no longer work on it?

Re: Announcing Clearbit Connect

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Post by natrius » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 7:28 PM UTC

A product people liked got shut down, so someone else rebuilt it. As a society, we're needlessly duplicating so much effort because we've decided treat software as a private good even though it's non-rivalrous and non-excludable. If we can come up with better ways to fund software, we can end this widespread waste and make progress faster.