I love rapportive. Just installed this baby
The ability to "buy" someone's contact info is turning me off a bit. I know theres plenty of websites that offer the same thing and I've never thought to pony up $ for an email or phone # vs just trying to find it elsewhere or thru a connection. Wonder where the info comes from and if its just getting scraped?
Also checkout Twitter once you add it, there are about a thousand 6º showing up lol
Loving this so far. Feeling a bit weird about buying people's contact info with credits but maybe just need a clearer understanding of how that works since I didn't see it mentioned anywhere while onboarding. There's a good chance I simply overlooked it if it was there.
Turning off the beacons on twitter led to zero results when using the right-click and 'send to connect 6'. Is that what turning off the beacons means? It's not purely aesthetic?
When turning them back on, this process could be a little clearer and rather than have me 'delete' and then 'save' (slightly confusing and I had to read to figure out what I was supposed to do) you could show a list of all the sites that are supported and then provide toggles. If the list is too extensive, then just show the ones that's I've turned off and give them a simple toggle to turn back on as opposed to "delete' and 'save'.
Overall, kudos. Loving the info but I'd love more credits :)
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I learned about this on Twitter and have been experimenting with it every since. The "buy" phone + email address with credits was also a little off putting for me because it implies buying people's contact information.
The most useful feature for me is providing links to other public profiles on other services - big timesaver for someone you often have to do manually (e.g. find the Quora for a Tweeter).
But seriously? It did not reveal the phone or email address for @StartupLJackson or @FakeGrimlock even though it was implied you had it with "(???) ???-???? (click to reveal)."
Kudos to @dnicolls and @Connect6Lead for rolling PH feedback into the product. Will continue to use this one and will check out the others that @rrhoover referenced.
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One other UX improvement I see. Since right sidebar is taking quite a lot of real estate, and might appear from random hover over the username, instead:
Show semi-transparent floating thumbnail(photo/shortbio/social) in the top left corner
Hover over a thumbnail, it becomes solid, showing that move info is available
Click, it expands to sidebar(like now)
Click anywhere on the screen to close the sidebar ("X" is too far away)
I would enjoy this less intrusive experience a bit more. At least make it as an option :)
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Hunter
This looks interesting - takes contact discovery beyond gmail. A bit like Nimble, a bit like Rapportive. Worth a try.
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@KristoferTM agree that turning on the discoverability everywhere is an overload. You can remove sites from the list to avoid that problem and use a right-click method instead.
Re: the business model, I would rather subscribe for a nominal amount than trade contacts.
Those things being said, think it's an interesting service and similar to what we were trying to build at Gist in 2009-2011
This looks very useful. Here are a few similar products recently submitted: Riffle and Vibe.
StackLead is also very useful for businesses, surfacing user information via email signups. They also offer an API.
- Show semi-transparent floating thumbnail(photo/shortbio/social) in the top left corner
- Hover over a thumbnail, it becomes solid, showing that move info is available
- Click, it expands to sidebar(like now)
- Click anywhere on the screen to close the sidebar ("X" is too far away)
I would enjoy this less intrusive experience a bit more. At least make it as an option :)