Show HN: Free Company Autocomplete API

I was impressed when it located the tiny company I current work for (The Day News & Media) but less impressed that it couldn't find the enormous multinational I used to work for (John Wiley & Sons). Where does it source the data from?

Re: Show HN: Free Company Autocomplete API

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 06, 2015, 8:11 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Free Company Autocomplete API

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Post by mrdustinwhittle » Thu, Aug 06, 2015, 8:11 PM UTC

I have been using clearbit the last few months and it really is a great service with the best api docs and versioning I have seen to date (a la stripe). We use clearbit for company, persona, compliance, and prospect data.

Checkout https://svbtle.com/signup for a great experience built on clearbit. @maccman + team is killing it.

Clearbit is more narrowly focused on business apis, but in my experience Clearbit does a better job with company/persona data globally than orb intelligence, everstring, relateiq, madisonlogic.

Feature request: Better api key management to easy manage multiple environments (upgrading api versions between dev/prod)

Re: Show HN: Free Company Autocomplete API

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Post by sinzone » Thu, Aug 06, 2015, 8:52 PM UTC

Curious.. which tools you used for managing the backend of all these APIs? (authentication, rate limiting, etc)

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Post by rectangletangle » Thu, Aug 06, 2015, 9:12 PM UTC

baseballmerpeak wrote: post #3

How could a company be added to the database?

Implementing POST /companies/ {"name": "..."} would be nice. Other than that it's a really nice endpoint.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Autocomplete API

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Post by phonon » Thu, Aug 06, 2015, 9:23 PM UTC

If you could combine this with the one https://certsimple.com/ uses, that would be awesome!