Show HN: ContactOut – Find Anyone's Email and Phone#
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Show HN: ContactOut – Find Anyone's Email and Phone#
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#4Can you tell us a bit about how it works? Or what has changed over the last year since you first deployed it?
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#5Nice app and website, but I don't see the benefit of using a Chrome extension versus a normal browser web app. I understand that you can use it to find the phone number of a person on your current webpage, but I think it should be secondary to the web app.
Especially since you're targeting business users, you should create a polished webapp for them.
Also, I think many HN users would agree with me on the issue of privacy. In order to use the extension, I need to grant it permission to read and write data on all websites that I visit. Not saying you're evil, but this means (in theory) you could sell by browsing history, my interests, or even my data (again, not talking about you, but in general).
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#6I know this is just using what's publicly available but I do feel mildly creeped out. But since I'm not the target market that's probably an endorsement.
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#7I just tried 3 random contacts using a premium account, no dice on the email or phone number.
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#8This just looks like the same address-scraping that spammers have been using since the 90s, plus some half-assed attempt to link them to real names. People who want to be contacted will make it easy to do so; those who don't, won't.
Are you actually proud of having created this thing?
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#9Wow, that's super creepy
This looks like dream tool for stalkers
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#10Where is the opt-out?