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Poomba··on Ask HN: Recommended technographic API?
I have tried that but 1) it hallucinated a lot of technologies as I mentioned and 2) it only detects the front end stuff not backend
Poomba··on How to find companies using AWS that want to save costs?
Didnt think of the FinOps angle - thats a goodd one! The annoying thing about filtering by AWS mentions is that every other company seems to list all the clpud platforms like in a list, even if they use just one of them. Adding FinOps is a good additional filter in that case
Poomba··on How to find companies using AWS that want to save costs?
Yep, job listings definitely are a good place to dig into. Thanks!
Poomba··on How to find companies using AWS that want to save costs?
Yep, i guess i mean how to find the ones where the costs is exploding and where its becoming a pain, not just a nuisance they tolerate
Poomba··on Ask HN: Any recommended engineering/dev related Slack channels?
Definitely would recommend the Rands Slack channel though only catch is you need to be in some sort of engineering leadership role (not sure if the criteria changed though). But I’m sure if you ask nicely, they’ll let you in. Lots of channels related to career advice there

Also would recommend just going through this huge list of tech companies that use Slack to see if any of them fits you: https://bloomberry.com/data/slack/

Poomba··on Ask HN: Does anyone here use Discord as their work chat tool?
The web UI has become extremely slow. I am not sure if its that way for everyone or its because there are more people in our team using it. Many people dont like the UI too although that isnt my main concern
Poomba··on Ask HN: How will most Anthropic customers respond to the threats by the govt?
I guess to be explicit, how will they respond to the threat of it being designated a supply chain risk(edited title)
Poomba··on Ask HN: How to find companies that use ChatGPT?
Would followers or commenters usually be recent customers though? Because that really is my target audience: users who just decided to purchase and use ChatGPT.
Poomba··on Ask HN: How to find companies that use ChatGPT?
Thanks! Those are helpful!

For number one, any idea the best person to contact in those companies? They probably dont got a head of AI person so wondering if a VP of Engineering is the next logical person.

Also I haven’t thought of forums/communities! Any idea whether I am more likely to find small companies or big enterprises there?

Poomba··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Clay for Enrichment?
i dont even use a crm blushes. To be honest, im just starting out with outbound so im not doing anything sophisticated. Just want to import a list of leads, enrich with contact details and their tech stack data. Thats all.

Ppl keep recommending me tools like apollo and zoominfo but they way too powerful for me. I dont care about how many data providers they have because i just care about those 2 thinfs

Poomba··on Show HN: Daily install trends of AI coding extensions in VS Code
It would be great if u could overlay a HN sentiment chart over all of these tools.
Poomba··on LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from profiles
I doubt they have side deals. They took action on some of them by removing their company page, but that is like a slap in the hand.

If you want to make a big deal about this, tell us you at least sent a letter to the big players too. Otherwise, dont put up such a huge show

Poomba··on LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from profiles
Examples?
Poomba··on LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from profiles
Why are they going after the small fish?

If they really want to put a dent into this, go after the biggest players scraping LinkedIn: PeopleDataLabs and Apollo.io (and no, taking down their company page does not count)

Poomba··on All the sad young terminally online men
I know someone who got addicted to the influencer money in Tiktok and dropped out of a med school program because making 5 figures a month, taking videos of you wearing fancy clothes was way better than slogging thru med school
Poomba··on Launch HN: Webhound (YC S23) – Research agent that builds datasets from the web
So your customers just want to use this for their own internal data, not external data from the web. Is that correct?
Poomba··on Launch HN: Webhound (YC S23) – Research agent that builds datasets from the web
I like this approach better TBH - more reliable and robust. It probably satisfies 80% of most customer queries too as most want to query against the same sources
Poomba··on Starbucks: Location closures and elimination of roles
For me, I just order a drink when my wife stops by one to order one. I hardly go out of my way to order it myself. Everything from the drinks to the pastries are mediocre
Poomba··on Launch HN: Webhound (YC S23) – Research agent that builds datasets from the web
When it finds a page that has the results I'm looking for in a particular website, does it paginate through all of them? When I searched for "stores that are on the Faire marketplace" it seems to return just the first page of results without paginating through all of them.
Poomba··on Ask HN: Anyone switched from software to physical world engineering?
But lower pay right?
Poomba··on Ask HN: How do you use AI to convince people you didn't use AI to get an idea?
Use first principles in your reasoning. Back your claims up with as much data as you can. It doesnt really matter if you used AI or not
Poomba··on Ask HN: Decent Builtwith alternative for finding leads?
You guys need a way for users to download flat csvs. And also a Zoominfo or Apollo integration if you want more SDR/BDRs to use it. I like the company info you return but you lack contact details right? That is important to users like me…

Other than that the data is what I exactly need. Was able to find businesses that use Github, Gitlab and Grafana rather easily!

Poomba··on Ask HN: Decent Builtwith alternative for finding leads?
[update] just signed up and very curious where the data comes from? I managed to find businesses that use Github which is incredibly useful for me. It is missing some Javascript frameworks like NextJS but i think thats not a big deal…

Where does the technographic data come from? Is it scraped from websites? Or are you relying on another 3rd party source?

Is there anyway to get some trends data like how Builtwith has trend insights on how many of the top 100k websites use something like NextJS over time?

Poomba··on Docker Hub Is Down
Is there a good alternative for DockerHub these days? Besides azure CR
Poomba··on Ask HN: Decent Builtwith alternative for finding leads?
never heard of it but will give it a try. but off the bat I need an UI not just an API
Poomba··on Ask HN: In hindsight, what would you change about you education?
I would focus less on getting good grades, and more about finding like-minded students, or students who could complement my strengths so I could work with them in the future
Poomba··on How to be a leader when the vibes are off
I feel like OP has either never worked outside of tech startups/Silicon Valley or never worked pre-2012 (dont wanna assume tho and this is not meant in a disparaging manner)

A lot of these things exists in other industries for awhile. Like lack of trust (you have to be from 8 to 6 in a lot of Wall St firms) and fear of layoffs (everyone who worked during the financial crisis in 07-08 know this all too well). I would say they are the norm, and the things that OP missed was the exception

Poomba··on Ask HN: How Is Everyone Feeling?
“ Secondly, the support for these movements mostly stems from an aging demographic, a lot of which are just passing their last few years.”

Is there data backing this? Because i feel like there’s also a large young segment (esp young men) who support this current administration and what they stand for

Poomba··on New study shows plants and animals emit a visible light that expires at death
As someone wise once said, “You just gotta ignite the light and let it shine”
Poomba··on Ask HN: Is America Going to Become an Autocracy?
Thanks, that was helpful and I’ll try to do some of these things when I can
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