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Re: Show HN: Contactive API – Turn telephone numbers into full profiles

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Post by whoisjuan » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 3:17 PM UTC

codeoclock wrote: post #11

This + twilio = user identification. Looks like I'm gonna have to be more careful with my phone number...

We know there may be some privacy concerns regarding the use of our data but we don't allow anyone to systematically query our API to build phone number lists (We just allow 180 requests per min) We are very strict in the way people use our API. That's the reason we don't have an open registration process.

Re: Show HN: Contactive API – Turn telephone numbers into full profiles

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Post by DmitryShamak » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 3:20 PM UTC

What is the price of this after 1000 queries? What if the person who calls doesn't want to show his profile to man that he call to?

Re: Show HN: Contactive API – Turn telephone numbers into full profiles

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Post by lsanza » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 3:23 PM UTC

This looks interesting to integrate with sales apps. What are the demographics of the 600M phone numbers? Mostly US? Percentage of business/residential?

Re: Show HN: Contactive API – Turn telephone numbers into full profiles

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Post by ral1331 » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 3:25 PM UTC

techaddict009 wrote: post #12

Are you guys using Truecaller data? How much out of 600M are Indian Contacts? Can we have countries vise count of Data you own?

Hi, thanks for the question. We don't use any Truecaller data. As a general break down by country, 51% of our resolved calls are from the United States, 4% from India, 9% from Spain, 9% from Singapore, and fairly dispersed after that.

Re: Show HN: Contactive API – Turn telephone numbers into full profiles

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Post by whoisjuan » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 3:29 PM UTC

DmitryShamak wrote: post #22

What is the price of this after 1000 queries? What if the person who calls doesn't want to show his profile to man that he call to?

This is the beta of our API and we have pricing plan with SKU's upon request. We first want to get data on what a typical usage of the API looks like.

Re: Show HN: Contactive API – Turn telephone numbers into full profiles

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Post by whoisjuan » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 3:32 PM UTC

ompemi wrote: post #20

whoisjuan wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We get all the information from public sources: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yelp, Google Places, AngelList, etc. You can always mail us to contact@contactive.com for any privacy concern. We would remove any phone number upon request.

Do you plan to be able to input 3rd party private information? I would like to import my 3rd party phone numbers database and related information, being only accessible for my API account. This could lead to interesting integrations with sales databases.

Yes! This is in the horizon of the product and it would be more likely to be the following step after we get out of beta.

Re: Show HN: Contactive API – Turn telephone numbers into full profiles

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Post by ponyous » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 3:35 PM UTC

lsanza wrote: post #23

This looks interesting to integrate with sales apps. What are the demographics of the 600M phone numbers? Mostly US? Percentage of business/residential?

As stated on webpage: "Contactive provides enhanced information for 86% of incoming calls in the U.S., and for more than 50% globally, adding rich context with photos, names, companies, addresses, and more."

Re: Show HN: Contactive API – Turn telephone numbers into full profiles

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Post by tomadams » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 3:36 PM UTC

We would like to add this feature to our app. How often do you guys refresh your data?

Re: Show HN: Contactive API – Turn telephone numbers into full profiles

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Post by julman99 » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 3:43 PM UTC

ch4s3 wrote: post #18

whoisjuan wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi. Thanks for the comment. We only use data that is publicly available (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Yelp (for businesses), etc. Regarding the "big data" logic we use a lot of complex algorithms to provide accurate resolution and to be able to create compelling profiles. We consider ourselves as a "big data" solutions because of the principles we use to aggregate this data.

Just because a phone number is publically available doesn't mean that the owner of that number wants all of their public information aggregated for an unknown purpose, which looks to be a pipeline for sales lead generation. What use case is your product addressing? And I'm sorry, but 600 million unique data entries isn't "big data" that would fit into a single Excel 2013 worksheet if you used multiple columns (570 is…

The 600+ million records are not just unique records since phone numbers are not necessarily primary keys. One of the challenges of Contactive is about indexing and building relationships between phone numbers, emails and social identities. Every time we collect new data, it is stored into the directory and indexed in realtime.

It is also important to know that we only index public data and also we provide an opt-out option if someone wants to be unlisted.

Re: Show HN: Contactive API – Turn telephone numbers into full profiles

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Post by uqimu » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 3:44 PM UTC

lsanza wrote: post #23

This looks interesting to integrate with sales apps. What are the demographics of the 600M phone numbers? Mostly US? Percentage of business/residential?

Around 50% of the numbers are from the US and most of them are residential. We estimate that around 1% of the numbers are from businesses.