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StackLead (YC W14) is joining LinkedIn

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For an alternative, people can look at https://clearbit.co/ which is also pretty solid and with nice other feature. Alex McCaw is behind it. ( I have no stake in it, just tried both services )

Oh my god, yes, thank you. I spent days trying to remember the URL for that service, I was hoping someone would bring it up in this thread.

I even posted an Ask HN asking if anyone remembered the name: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8288303

Separately, FullContact API is also another replacement.

No worries. Fullcontact API is not really use friendly compare to stacklead and clearbit (old apihub).

I ran some test on the 3 of them and Stacklead was the one that could usually found the most useful information. Haven't tried Clearbit in the last 2 months though...

Thanks for the recommendation Sylvain! Yes, we've been busy improving our data over the last month. Give it another shot - I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

What don't you find user friendly about FullContact? Would love the feedback. Thanks.

If anyone is looking for an alternative I've been working on something similar over at http://hulimail.com.

Not a direct replacement but I'm now adding some additional features to try to make it that. If you're an existing Stacklead customer I'd be interested in talking to you about getting your data migrated and making sure everything works as well at Hulimail as it did at Stacklead.

Does anyone know any of StackLead's metrics like run rate, active users, etc? It'd be cool if Ted or Gordon could share more information in a post-mortem too.

I'm curious as to why the company joined LinkedIn instead of pursuing the opportunity to grow StackLead. I've heard from more than a few people using it how valuable the service is and I'm surprised they are shutting it down.

LinkedIn's value is in the database of contacts and interactions. It looks like they're trying to get rid of anyone who was able to capture a significant portion of that data. Too bad, it was a useful service. They must have made them a sweet offer.

This seems like it could be a real business with a lot of traction, especially with the death of Rapportive. I wonder why the founders chose to throw it away and get jobs at LinkedIn.

Because of the money.

another promising service getting destroyed by LinkedIn, like Rapportive.

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