[HN Gopher] Show HN: A new search engine for finding leads
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Show HN: A new search engine for finding leads
Hey folks, There has been some talk about search engines here so I
thought maybe I'd share a new project I'm working on. Built it
partly to help me sell my own projects. Still a lot of work to be
done but would be happy to get feedback. Very early phase so don't
trust your life with it. Cheers --- Edit: if anyone needs a
free/no CC account just DM me on
https://www.linkedin.com/in/crufter/
Author : friendly_chap
Score : 16 points
Date : 2024-02-19 14:58 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (singulatron.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (singulatron.com)
| piterrro wrote:
| The website says: >Find your next lead with a search engine that
| dares to be DIFFERENT.
|
| Can you tell me what's different than yellow pages about this
| search engine?
| friendly_chap wrote:
| Probably I didn't get the following idea across properly: this
| is not searching a company dataset. This is just like Google -
| as in it searches web pages, but with the added ability to
| filter by owning company industry, size, location, or later
| once we support it even stuff like tech stack used etc (in that
| regard it's somewhat adjacent to tools like Wappalyzer), or the
| HTTP headers present, or any kind of crazy stuff.
|
| If that's still not unique enough (not sure TBH) I guess I
| should adjust the copy :)). I'm not great at writing copy.
|
| Anyway this is still no a fully fleshed out idea, mostly just
| scratching my own itch and conquering the difficulties of
| storing billions of pages.
|
| Thanks for the question and any feedback is appreciated.
| LaundroMat wrote:
| Can you describe that itch?
| friendly_chap wrote:
| Basically I have at my fingertips a lot of tech brainpower
| who can knock out products pretty quickly. Being techies
| our sales chops are subpar so I thought about owning the
| data myself and learning the ins and outs of sales through
| getting closer to the industry.
|
| At the same time this project forces me to handle data at
| scale (few terrabytes currently but I estimate we will need
| about 2 petabytes of storage realistically at minimum) and
| that comes handy for AI related projects. That's pretty
| much my personal motivation for this.
| skeptrune wrote:
| I didn't really understand what it was doing until I actually
| searched. Not quite intuitive that it's web search but oriented
| around companies I guess.
|
| Is that what it does?
| friendly_chap wrote:
| For now pretty much, all filters are company oriented
| currently. In the future this will change.
| giankam wrote:
| Hard to understand what it does and the idea behind. In this
| state I would not limit the search engine results to give the
| opportunity to fully grasp the idea and benefits.
| friendly_chap wrote:
| That's definitely a sensible suggestion - to be fair I expected
| the sufficiently interested parties to DM me for a free account
| - I did not word my intention sufficiently but at this stage we
| are looking for salespeople to give feedback.
| leobg wrote:
| Is that based on scraped LinkedIn data?
| friendly_chap wrote:
| To avoid getting ourselves into trouble all I can say for now
| is that we have not scraped LinkedIn. We do index the websites
| ourselves though, we are not using Google or any other parties.
| The goal is to collate biz intelligence from a lot of sources
| and augment a normal web index that way.
| Towaway69 wrote:
| Wow, did a search for Node-RED and got a new lead! The other
| result was a open instance of NR - that shouldn't really be
| there...
|
| But 50% success rate for me :)
|
| Good job, looking good :thumbsup:
| friendly_chap wrote:
| I'm more surprised to hear that than you are, haha!
|
| Jokes aside that is really great to hear. Our index size and
| data quality is probably 2% of where I want it to be - but it
| takes a lot of computing power and effort to get there so I
| decided to sniff around for feedback sooner than later.
|
| So your positive feedback is very much appreciated, thank you.
| Towaway69 wrote:
| If it's OK, I'll ping you on linkedin and beg for freebie
| account. Beg since I'm really not your intended audience,
| just a tech dude on the look out for gigs!
| friendly_chap wrote:
| Sure thing no worries, happy for any users or feedback at
| this point :)
|
| Cheers
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