This + twilio = user identification. Looks like I'm gonna have to be more careful with my phone number...
Show HN: Contactive API – Turn telephone numbers into full profiles
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#12Are you guys using Truecaller data?
How much out of 600M are Indian Contacts?
Can we have countries vise count of Data you own?
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. The difference is that our core data is based on phone numbers. Instead of an email address you can query a phone number and retrieve a profile associated to that phone number. Imagine "Full Contact" for phone numbers.
Do you also work with email addresses? i.e. give you an email address and get a profile back in return?
Yes. It would work. We are very focused on phone numbers but we have a big and growing email address database.
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#14Seems like Full Contact? http://www.fullcontact.com/
Yes. The difference is that our core data is based on phone numbers. Instead of an email address you can query a phone number and retrieve a profile associated to that phone number. Imagine "Full Contact" for phone numbers.
FullContact also offers searching by Phone Number. Its not very good though. How is your's better?
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#15What's the provenance of this information?
Where's the opt-out, both for individuals with individual phone numbers, and for businesses who own large blocks of numbers?
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. The difference is that our core data is based on phone numbers. Instead of an email address you can query a phone number and retrieve a profile associated to that phone number. Imagine "Full Contact" for phone numbers.
FullContact also offers searching by Phone Number. Its not very good though. How is your's better?
Well. We have a much more bigger phone number database and provide very compelling profiles associated to each phone number. Full Contact doesn't focus on phone numbers. We do.
As a matter of fact, our API powers our core services like our Contactive Caller ID app which has more than 1 million downloads in the Google Play Store with a consistent 4-5 star rating.
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#17What's the provenance of this information? Where's the opt-out, both for individuals with individual phone numbers, and for businesses who own large blocks of numbers?
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.
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#18This seems incredibly invasive. Can anyone imagine something positive and constructive this could be used for? Also what does "big data logic" mean?
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 ish columns) but still 1 worksheet.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
FullContact also offers searching by Phone Number. Its not very good though. How is your's better?
Well. We have a much more bigger phone number database and provide very compelling profiles associated to each phone number. Full Contact doesn't focus on phone numbers. We do. As a matter of fact, our API powers our core services like our Contactive Caller ID app which has more than 1 million downloads in the Google Play Store with a consistent 4-5 star rating.
Direct question: are you using the app to collect info about the users to you can enhance your database also based on that data?
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#20What's the provenance of this information? Where's the opt-out, both for individuals with individual phone numbers, and for businesses who own large blocks of numbers?
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.