Show HN: API for Sales Research

by gwintrob • 12 years ago

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johns3• 12 years ago

This looks awesome, but needs a privacy policy (at a minimum) before I'm giving it any of my customer info.

gwintrob6• 12 years ago

We do have a basic terms page (http://stacklead.com/terms) that needs to be clearer. Our goal is to help you automate this research and improve your sales process. We will never sell or share customer data.

johns3• 12 years ago

That was only linked from your home page, not the page submitted here.

dannyolinsky• 12 years ago

started using stacklead yesterday. working great so far.

AznHisoka2• 12 years ago

Can I guess what your secret sauce is? (asking first in case I'm right and it'll help a competitor)

johns3• 12 years ago

My guess: Full Contact

frankdenbow• 12 years ago

I am guessing not Full Contact, as a friend built a rapportive-atyle widget by just scraping info himself: http://falcon.io/

selectout2• 12 years ago

Not certain how willing I'd be to send a third party the unhashed email address of every (or even just a few) signups. Seems to be a big privacy violation and the users of the sites that use this should clearly state what they are doing.

I know tracking companies were getting in a lot of trouble for just having hashed versions of emails sent out and a lot of users of those sites were very mad. I'd be pissed if my email was being sent along without my knowledge.

EDIT: Outside the privacy risk though this actually looks really neat and helpful. I'm assuming this is using the rapportive API or something very similar. Neat service, just too many privacy risks for me to use it.

gwintrob6• 12 years ago

Thanks for the feedback, selectout. We use the email address to lookup data we've indexed and return all the research you would be doing anyways. We'll never contact email addresses you send us or share them with anyone.

selectout2• 12 years ago

Do you store any association of email addresses and what sites send them to you or is all of that just dropped immediately?

Also, thanks for replying! Great to see you don't just avoid the privacy issues like others do at times.

Gobitron• 12 years ago

Not bad, but you gave me the wrong Facebook profile (I have a common name) and the Twitter one, while one that I manage, was not my main Twitter account.

troygoode• 12 years ago

Worked really well for my personal email address, but found my CEO (?) when I put in my work email address. It'd be nice if there was an easy way to report inaccurate data when I recognize it.

I'd find this really useful if the REST API could return a JSON response to me instead of waiting for it to arrive in my inbox. I guess this isn't meant for integration into other applications?

mrmch• 12 years ago

+1 for a JSON API, that could be really useful. The "Email API" as it stands now is valuable, definitely saves time googling every sign up.

gwintrob6• 12 years ago

Thanks a lot, Troy. I'll dig into what happened with your work email. We're working on a JSON endpoint using webhooks, so you can plug into an internal dashboard or other application.

chacham153• 12 years ago

You guys know that using a persons picture (or likeness) without written permission from that person (in this case Drew Houston) in a commercial setting is illegal, right?

I only tell you guys this because I want you to succeed and not get caught on a tiny mistake like this.

ianhawes• 12 years ago

I don't think you're right, but I'm not a lawyer.

chacham153• 12 years ago

I'm 99% sure that I am. Read http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/using-name-or-likeness-anoth... for more information.

ianstormtaylor• 12 years ago

Are you talking about the drewh@gmail.com email address?

chacham153• 12 years ago

No, the picture (and name) of Drew Houston (not to mention the Dropbox logo). Click on "get your report" to see it.

martinshen• 12 years ago

Would love to use StackLead (or any Rapportive-esque) services with our internal dashboards.

bduerst• 12 years ago

+1 for the clever signup flow.

As some have already touched on, privacy is going to be a major roadblock, at least for our team in using this. Legally we can't send out any addresses, and I can't think of any ways around it for your queries at the moment.

Is there any way to do batch queries and receive aggregated data?

gwintrob6• 12 years ago

Thanks, bduerst. We'll follow up over email. We do support batch queries by uploading spreadsheets.

codingjester2• 12 years ago

Where can I report bad data for your service? Has all the wrong info for me, excluding my name and picture. I'm guessing it's got to be from LinkedIn?

gwintrob6• 12 years ago

Hey codingjester. Thanks for pointing that out! You can always hit reply if you see a problem with a report (we read every one).

codingjester2• 12 years ago

Cool. I'll let you guys know. Thanks for the response.

michaeldwp• 12 years ago

Nice work, well done.

Are you planning on supporting HTTPS anytime soon?

alain34• 12 years ago

I did do something similar to stacklead, but returning an xml document, as opposed to receiving an email. Not sure about the accuracy of stacklead against what I have done. You can check it at https://www.bankaccountchecker.com/apiSocial.php?email=alain... This is my own email address, so it should not be a problem. If you are using your own email address, please ensure that you are replacing @ by %40

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