[HN Gopher] Show HN: Telescope - Hassle-free company research
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Show HN: Telescope - Hassle-free company research
Hey HN. I recently started a company and found myself constantly
doing company research for competitors, prospective customers, and
outbound leads. As an engineer, I found it challenging to figure
out where to get up-to-date company information as well as tedious
needing to visit multiple sites often. I built Telescope to solve
that problem. Under the hood, Telescope performs multiple search
queries the same way I would and synthesizes the results for me.
This is very much a WIP but I would love for you to try it out and
let me know what you think. Over the next couple of weeks, I plan
on continuing to improve Telescope and add more features. Cheers
:)
Author : GRVYDEV
Score : 16 points
Date : 2024-01-31 13:25 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (scope.quantichq.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (scope.quantichq.com)
| vvram wrote:
| Interesting problem, but it's hard to say what you offer compares
| to others. You should probably have some examples for visitors to
| understand the value prop without signup.
| GRVYDEV wrote:
| Thank you for the feedback! I'll get to work on an About page.
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| What we are doing is automating bespoke account qualification
| and research. Say, for example, you are a company that sells
| software to chemical synthesis labs. Your ideal customer
| synthesizes more than 5 chemicals. They need to synthesize them
| in large batches and they need to have more than 10 chemists on
| staff.
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| To go out and find those ideal customers, right now, you would
| need to spend hours upon hours searching and manually
| qualifying each account. We are going to automate that. By
| providing more accurate leads we will reduce the amount of time
| that companies need to spend on prospecting while also
| increasing the open rate.
| jll29 wrote:
| This is potentially useful for "partner search" functionality
| (as operated by governments and e.g. the European Commission)
| - e.g. when people want to team up to co-apply for research
| grants.
| GRVYDEV wrote:
| This is a great use-case!
| jll29 wrote:
| Company research is a very important field, and you can buy
| datasets (D&S), appliances (Bloomberg) and software/Web apps
| (LSEG/Refinitiv, Factset) for this purpose.
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| If your purpose is competitive intelligence, then including
| information from other sides is crucial. What are analysts
| saying? etc. What are customers saying about products? And a lot
| of info is in financial reports and SEC filings if your target
| company is public.
|
| There are also commercial providers that let you register a set
| of Web domains and they will email you once there is a change
| anywhere, including the "diff" information (before > after),
| which is also useful for Competitive Intelligence.
|
| It is not trivial given a company name to find the set of
| homepages that belong to the company (called the "homepage
| finding" task in information retrieval, there are US government
| benchmarks on it, such as at the TREC conference, see
| trec.nist.gov). Once you have the homepage, it is not trivial to
| reverse engineer, from the Web presence, the org structure of the
| company (if large).
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| One area that I am interested in a lot is finding out where
| companies are going. For that, you can analyze what people
| indicate in interviews, R&D talks at more technical conferences,
| patent applications, acquisitions in unusual areas etc. - at
| large, this is called "horizon scanning".
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| There is a lot of money in high-quality datasets about companies
| for investment management, and there is an under-supply of
| detailed datasets with systematic coverage of private companies.
| GRVYDEV wrote:
| Thank you for this thoughtful response. We have the same
| mindset. This is exactly what we are building. I'd love to chat
| with you more on this.
| piltdownman wrote:
| Got a sub-ChatGPT precis including gems like 'Their website
| utilizes cookies to enhance user experience and to better
| understand their users.'
|
| Honestly not sure what use-case this is intended to support.
| GRVYDEV wrote:
| Thank you for the feedback. Apologies for the crappy response.
| This is still super nascent technology and I'm still working on
| improving the search process. In my eyes the real value here
| lies in data enrichment from other sources allowing you to get
| a really deep understanding of a company. I am actively
| building out that functionality now.
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