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Show HN: A new search engine for finding leads

by friendly_chap on 2/19/24, 2:58 PM with 19 comments

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

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Edit: if anyone needs a free/no CC account just DM me on https://www.linkedin.com/in/crufter/

  • by D-Se on 2/20/24, 12:26 AM

    This is great, found a bunch of leads. Surprisingly accurate for the 3 languages I tried if the search is general enough. Quite limited when trying to find the website of a specific company.

    Some feedback: -The industry filter should be case insensitive - perhaps an option to filter to 1 main url per company, had multiple searches where the same company occupies the top 2 results - the filter list "grows" when you do a search, then add new words to the search bar.

  • by skeptrune on 2/19/24, 5:21 PM

    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?

  • by giankam on 2/19/24, 5:28 PM

    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.

  • by Towaway69 on 2/19/24, 7:07 PM

    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:

  • by piterrro on 2/19/24, 3:18 PM

    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?

  • by usernamed7 on 2/20/24, 2:47 AM

    i could not figure out how to use this. It would help to show some examples or one-click ideas. (and yes, i am someone who could use B2B leads).

  • by leobg on 2/19/24, 5:51 PM

    Is that based on scraped LinkedIn data?