Mihir Deo
@mihir_deo · Mihir Deo, Elucify
Thanks for hunting us @sama! We’re extremely excited to be launching on PH today 😃
Elucify (YC W16) is a free and crowdsourced database of business contact information. Once you sign up and join the community by anonymously sharing contacts, you can get access to over 200,000 company profiles and business contact emails at those companies completely for free.
I was an early sales employee at Dropbox and realized that finding the contact information of sales prospects was a process filled with problems because:
1. Contact info/emails can be incredibly hard to and time-consuming to find through guessing and Google searching.
2. Lead providers/email database providers are ridiculously expensive
We built this for salespeople and business development folks who want a quick, easy, and free way to reach out to their prospects without having to pay lots of money or spend hours manually guessing emails on Linkedin.
We were interviewed by Siftery recently, and you can find out a bit more about our product vision here: https://medium.com/@siftery/find...
We’re early in the process of Elucify and always figuring out ways to make it better! We’ll be here to answer any questions people have!
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Daniel Snell
@danielsnell
@mihir_deo great job guys, I've thoroughly enjoyed using and sharing elucify! Keep up the work guys :-)
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Joel Andren
@joelandren · co-founder, PressFriendly
@mihir_deo @sama Just to be clear, when I sign up and Auth with my google mail, you scrape my entire contact list? This is the "crowdsourced" part?
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Mihir Deo
@mihir_deo · Mihir Deo, Elucify
@joelandren a part of it, yes, though most of the shared information from users is used to validate the publicly crawled information we already have.
Parts of the crowdsourcing model is that users can also vote to improve the company info that we have on the system. Essentially with Elucify is a give-to-get model, where you securely and anonymously share business contacts in return for access to the database, which is a combination of publicly crawled information validated by crowdsourced data.
However, we are going to be offering a paid option soon (as seen on the pricing page) to allow opt-out of sharing your business contacts. We realize this is a sensitive area and we're definitely making sure that we're taking all the efforts we can to ensure that our user data is safe and that we're doing this in a smart way.
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