Find AI
Web and SaaS
b2b people and company search
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How HN took it
5 positive, 23 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 10 critical, out of 39 comments about the project. Thread score -0.08.
Idea: 3 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 3 againstPerformance: 1 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for exploratory searches with natural language queries
From 3 comments
Find AI is good at meandering or exploratory searches. "Companies that might sell to <X>", "People that might become future founders based on <X>". That's essentially what the AI…
philip1209 on HNThis sort of stuff is a great use case match for AI, where even a human would end up with imperfect results.
rco8786 on HNran a couple searches and this looks good! any plans for outbound? i'm using luna ai right now
KostyaNst on HN
Objections
Search results are slow and often return zero matches
From 3 comments
Cool but after waiting 2 mins for a one sentence prompt I got; We have analyzed 1681 candidates and found 0 records matching the search criteria. The search was initiated 2…
webappguy on HNAnd then a second more simple Query ‘find me people who have posted on Mamba architecture and might be looking for jobs’ and got; We have analyzed 695 candidates and found 0…
webappguy on HNSearch was "Find companies that are looking for designers with a print background." Result was: "We have analyzed 1072 candidates and found 0 records matching the search…
hidelooktropic on HN
Coverage is limited to about 50k companies and 100k people
From 2 comments
> What are some of the other verticals you're considering? Thinking of VCs and finance next, because lots of the user so far have been customers. Law is high on the list.…
philip1209 on HNAmazing concept! I am a heavy user of such tools, and typically build my own bespoke search. I tried out Find AI across a number of different queries, and I think the general…
armcat on HN
Privacy concerns about scraped personal data and bias in queries
From 2 comments
Multiple examples are querying for "female" (which could be fine), and this prompted a thought... What happens when a customer is searching for hiring purposes, and searches…
neilv on HNAre people on LinkedIn with profiles set to private indexed?
ThrowawayR2 on HN
Requests
Add non-tech verticals such as law and finance
From 2 comments
When are you going to add non-tech companies? I'm constantly scanning bios like this for lawyers, especially on what types of law they practice and what types of cases they've…
evashang on HNThanks for the response. I think Tech/VCs/Finance are all pretty well correlated, you might want to consider branching out of that bubble of the world IMO.
marigoldwhale on HN
Provide an API
From 1 comment
Amazing concept! I am a heavy user of such tools, and typically build my own bespoke search. I tried out Find AI across a number of different queries, and I think the general…
armcat on HN
Questions
Where does the profile data come from and is it scraped from LinkedIn
From 3 comments
"LinkedIn-type data". What does this mean? Are you scraping LinkedIn? How fresh is the data?
ilrwbwrkhv on HNWhere does the data come from?
howon92 on HNCan you please elaborate on this? If you don't scrape LI, where do the profile details come from (once you inferred the URL)? Is this publicly available data that can be bought…
derek12345derek on HN
Alternatives named
LinkedIn Sales Navigator
From 1 comment
Why use this over LinkedIn Sales Navigator? Zoominfo/DiscoverOrg? How much time have you actually spent prospecting? If you have to ask vague questions to find your prospects,…
mcmcmc on HN
ZoomInfo and DiscoverOrg
From 1 comment
Why use this over LinkedIn Sales Navigator? Zoominfo/DiscoverOrg? How much time have you actually spent prospecting? If you have to ask vague questions to find your prospects,…
mcmcmc on HN
Luna AI
From 1 comment
ran a couple searches and this looks good! any plans for outbound? i'm using luna ai right now
KostyaNst on HN