Features:
- familiar spreadsheet UI
- Apollo.io, Leadmagic, Findymail, OpenAI + 100s to come
- Mention {{column_names}}
- Import and export CSVs
- Cloud version or MIT-licensed Docker
- Your keys for any vendor \u2013 free
- Credit system for Beton-managed API keys
Happy to hear any feedback you have on this"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["clay",".","com"],"value":"Show HN: Open-Source Clay.com Alternative"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/getbeton/beton-ai"}},"_tags":["story","author_nadyyym","story_45493974","show_hn"],"author":"nadyyym","children":[45494585],"created_at":"2025-10-06T17:42:01Z","created_at_i":1759772521,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"45493974","points":2,"story_id":45493974,"story_text":"I'm building a lead enrichment orchestration tool that can be self-hosted.
Features:
- familiar spreadsheet UI
- Apollo.io, Leadmagic, Findymail, OpenAI + 100s to come
- Mention {{column_names}}
- Import and export CSVs
- Cloud version or MIT-licensed Docker
- Your keys for any vendor \u2013 free
- Credit system for Beton-managed API keys
Happy to hear any feedback you have on this","title":"Show HN: Open-Source Clay.com Alternative","updated_at":"2026-03-05T22:51:26Z","url":"https://github.com/getbeton/beton-ai"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"xnoyzi"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["clay",".","com"],"value":"Clay.com charges $300/mo for this. I made it 10x cheaper"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.enrichspot.com/"}},"_tags":["story","author_xnoyzi","story_44874972"],"author":"xnoyzi","children":[44874973,44875238],"created_at":"2025-08-12T11:38:36Z","created_at_i":1754998716,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"44874972","points":2,"story_id":44874972,"title":"Clay.com charges $300/mo for this. I made it 10x cheaper","updated_at":"2026-03-05T22:33:56Z","url":"https://www.enrichspot.com/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"MakegreatWord"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["clay",".","com"],"value":"I'm considering building an open-source alternative to Clay.com (the customer intelligence/data enrichment platform). The core concept would be a self-hostable solution that can:
Enrich contact and company data from public sources\nCreate custom data tables with flexible schemas\nAutomate data maintenance and updating\nConnect with common CRMs and productivity tools\nPrioritize privacy and data ownership
My motivation: While Clay offers a great product, I believe data enrichment should be accessible to smaller teams and individuals without enterprise budgets. An open-source alternative would democratize access to these capabilities.\nSome technical challenges I'm considering:
How to handle API rate limits for various data sources\nBuilding a scalable architecture for processing large datasets\nEnsuring GDPR/CCPA compliance\nCreating a user-friendly interface comparable to commercial options
If you're interested in contributing or would use this type of tool, I'd love to hear your thoughts. What features would be most valuable? What integrations would you need? Any insights about potential pitfalls or suggestions on how to approach this project?\nHas anyone attempted something similar already that I could learn from?"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["clay",".","com"],"value":"Interest in an open-source alternative to Clay.com for data enrichment?"}},"_tags":["story","author_MakegreatWord","story_43756298","ask_hn"],"author":"MakegreatWord","children":[43756448,43813361],"created_at":"2025-04-21T20:48:31Z","created_at_i":1745268511,"num_comments":3,"objectID":"43756298","points":1,"story_id":43756298,"story_text":"I'm considering building an open-source alternative to Clay.com (the customer intelligence/data enrichment platform). The core concept would be a self-hostable solution that can:
Enrich contact and company data from public sources\nCreate custom data tables with flexible schemas\nAutomate data maintenance and updating\nConnect with common CRMs and productivity tools\nPrioritize privacy and data ownership
My motivation: While Clay offers a great product, I believe data enrichment should be accessible to smaller teams and individuals without enterprise budgets. An open-source alternative would democratize access to these capabilities.\nSome technical challenges I'm considering:
How to handle API rate limits for various data sources\nBuilding a scalable architecture for processing large datasets\nEnsuring GDPR/CCPA compliance\nCreating a user-friendly interface comparable to commercial options
If you're interested in contributing or would use this type of tool, I'd love to hear your thoughts. What features would be most valuable? What integrations would you need? Any insights about potential pitfalls or suggestions on how to approach this project?\nHas anyone attempted something similar already that I could learn from?","title":"Interest in an open-source alternative to Clay.com for data enrichment?","updated_at":"2025-10-06T17:38:32Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"iLoveSheets"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["clay",".","com"],"value":"I recently noticed this mostly from reading TechCrunch and talking to a friend. Once I noticed 2 or 3 and actively started searching them out, I noticed a lot more.
To give you an idea, here are all I've found. I'm sure there are other ones out there. I've also seen many on IndieHackers, but these are all the ones that have raised VC capital:
Rows.com
Clay.com
Spreadsheet.com
GetGrist.com
Nobodb.com
Retool.com
Equals.app
Coefficient.io
ActionDesk.io
Parabola.io
Rowy.io
They all seem to have been formed in the past 3 years, have raised funding in the $10 million range and all seem to do the same exact same things in slightly different ways. Basically import in data from various Databases and other sources like Twitter and Instagram and do excel operations on the data as well as some other additional functionalities they've added and generate charts. I'm not even sure if this is solving a real problem. Does anyone here have experience with this space or know more details about it or have used any of these SaaS products?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Why are there over a dozen recent no code Excel spreadsheet startups?"}},"_tags":["story","author_iLoveSheets","story_34089185","ask_hn"],"author":"iLoveSheets","children":[34089310,34090811,34091962,34092774,34092945,34095913],"created_at":"2022-12-22T02:58:05Z","created_at_i":1671677885,"num_comments":10,"objectID":"34089185","points":8,"story_id":34089185,"story_text":"I recently noticed this mostly from reading TechCrunch and talking to a friend. Once I noticed 2 or 3 and actively started searching them out, I noticed a lot more.
To give you an idea, here are all I've found. I'm sure there are other ones out there. I've also seen many on IndieHackers, but these are all the ones that have raised VC capital:
Rows.com
Clay.com
Spreadsheet.com
GetGrist.com
Nobodb.com
Retool.com
Equals.app
Coefficient.io
ActionDesk.io
Parabola.io
Rowy.io
They all seem to have been formed in the past 3 years, have raised funding in the $10 million range and all seem to do the same exact same things in slightly different ways. Basically import in data from various Databases and other sources like Twitter and Instagram and do excel operations on the data as well as some other additional functionalities they've added and generate charts. I'm not even sure if this is solving a real problem. Does anyone here have experience with this space or know more details about it or have used any of these SaaS products?","title":"Ask HN: Why are there over a dozen recent no code Excel spreadsheet startups?","updated_at":"2024-10-14T22:20:46Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"bigdatta"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["clay",".","com"],"value":"I'm looking to download youtube videos so that I can transcribe them and then store the transcripts in my db. My application is a Node.js server that runs in a docker container on EC2. I'm using @distube/ytdl-core to download the Youtube video and it works perfectly on my local dev environment.
As soon I run it in AWS I get an error from Youtube that says "Sign in to confirm you\u2019re not a bot". I'm guessing Youtube has blocked the IP's from AWS and forcing this, but there are a number of services I've seen that offer some kind of Youtube import (e.g. Opus Clip [1], Clay.ai [2], Veed.io [3] etc.), so my question is how are they getting around this restriction? The only possible solution I can think of is downloading the file locally and then uploading it but I feel like especially for Clay.ai that seems unlikely.
It seems like the suggestions online are to use a proxy server, but I don't trust random online proxy servers for a production application.
[1] https://www.opus.pro/\n[2] https://www.clay.com/claybooks/get-youtube-transcripts-in-seconds\n[3] https://www.veed.io/"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Are people downloading YouTube videos server-side"}},"_tags":["story","author_bigdatta","story_42637953","ask_hn"],"author":"bigdatta","children":[42638208,42648423],"created_at":"2025-01-08T20:09:20Z","created_at_i":1736366960,"num_comments":4,"objectID":"42637953","points":4,"story_id":42637953,"story_text":"I'm looking to download youtube videos so that I can transcribe them and then store the transcripts in my db. My application is a Node.js server that runs in a docker container on EC2. I'm using @distube/ytdl-core to download the Youtube video and it works perfectly on my local dev environment.
As soon I run it in AWS I get an error from Youtube that says "Sign in to confirm you\u2019re not a bot". I'm guessing Youtube has blocked the IP's from AWS and forcing this, but there are a number of services I've seen that offer some kind of Youtube import (e.g. Opus Clip [1], Clay.ai [2], Veed.io [3] etc.), so my question is how are they getting around this restriction? The only possible solution I can think of is downloading the file locally and then uploading it but I feel like especially for Clay.ai that seems unlikely.
It seems like the suggestions online are to use a proxy server, but I don't trust random online proxy servers for a production application.
[1] https://www.opus.pro/\n[2] https://www.clay.com/claybooks/get-youtube-transcripts-in-seconds\n[3] https://www.veed.io/","title":"Ask HN: Are people downloading YouTube videos server-side","updated_at":"2025-08-14T22:25:46Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"myzie"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["clay",".","com"],"value":"Solo founder here looking for some input and feedback from the HN community.
I'm building a SaaS to help with discovering and researching businesses. So far I have information on about 1M US companies, including URL, name, description, associated stock symbol, etc etc.
This could of course support different workflows for a number of possible ICPs. I'm working with one person in private equity now to do geographic filtering for target businesses and deal sourcing, for example. In this case, the important thing is breadth of coverage rather than depth of coverage, interestingly.
However I'm not yet sure that represents the best market for me moving forward. The reason I'm soliciting feedback here is I'm curious if more technical people would find a related API (and likely a corresponding MCP server) useful. As an example, this API would support quickly looking up matching companies by keyword, among other things. It could also simplify enrichment workflows by gathering deeper intel.
Of course there are related companies out there like Clay (https://www.clay.com), Exa (https://exa.ai), Inven (https://www.inven.ai), and Coresignal (https://coresignal.com) to name a few.
However there seems to be plenty of room for a unique take on this. I'm curious if anyone else here on HN is looking for a provider or partner as a data source on companies like this. If so, what capabilities are you looking for? What would make you consider partnering with a company for this and paying for access (even a modest amount) rather than building it yourself? Are you helping with data enrichment or something else?
I also like the idea of building a free way to build and share lists of companies, both privately and publicly. Thinking of all the people that like to share lists like "here are my top 10 companies in <sector> that I keep an eye on".
I greatly appreciate any and all feedback!"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"What company discovery/Intel features would you want in a tool like this?"}},"_tags":["story","author_myzie","story_45030520","ask_hn"],"author":"myzie","children":[45030719,45032212],"created_at":"2025-08-26T18:39:05Z","created_at_i":1756233545,"num_comments":3,"objectID":"45030520","points":1,"story_id":45030520,"story_text":"Solo founder here looking for some input and feedback from the HN community.
I'm building a SaaS to help with discovering and researching businesses. So far I have information on about 1M US companies, including URL, name, description, associated stock symbol, etc etc.
This could of course support different workflows for a number of possible ICPs. I'm working with one person in private equity now to do geographic filtering for target businesses and deal sourcing, for example. In this case, the important thing is breadth of coverage rather than depth of coverage, interestingly.
However I'm not yet sure that represents the best market for me moving forward. The reason I'm soliciting feedback here is I'm curious if more technical people would find a related API (and likely a corresponding MCP server) useful. As an example, this API would support quickly looking up matching companies by keyword, among other things. It could also simplify enrichment workflows by gathering deeper intel.
Of course there are related companies out there like Clay (https://www.clay.com), Exa (https://exa.ai), Inven (https://www.inven.ai), and Coresignal (https://coresignal.com) to name a few.
However there seems to be plenty of room for a unique take on this. I'm curious if anyone else here on HN is looking for a provider or partner as a data source on companies like this. If so, what capabilities are you looking for? What would make you consider partnering with a company for this and paying for access (even a modest amount) rather than building it yourself? Are you helping with data enrichment or something else?
I also like the idea of building a free way to build and share lists of companies, both privately and publicly. Thinking of all the people that like to share lists like "here are my top 10 companies in <sector> that I keep an eye on".
I greatly appreciate any and all feedback!","title":"What company discovery/Intel features would you want in a tool like this?","updated_at":"2026-03-05T22:31:26Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"simonw"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["clay",".","com"],"value":"> They also got 150M 11 years ago and 1 billion 7 year ago, they where quite large in 2022.
I had to look that up, you're talking about investment there, not earned revenue.
The 150M was their initial funding (actually 130M I think https://www.clay.com/dossier/openai-funding)
The 1B was from Microsoft in 2019: https://openai.com/index/microsoft-invests-in-and-partners-w...
In 2022 they only had 335 employees (according to various internet searches but I can't find an original source for that number.) I can't find credible numbers for revenue from the GPT-3 API, which did have some usage - GitHub Copilot started charging a subscription fee on June 21, 2022 - https://github.blog/changelog/2022-06-21-github-copilot-is-n... - and that was running on the OpenAI Codex model so presumably OpenAI had some revenue from that."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://runtimewire.com/article/openai-leaked-financials-altman-compute-burn"}},"_tags":["comment","author_simonw","story_48565130"],"author":"simonw","children":[48566161],"comment_text":"> They also got 150M 11 years ago and 1 billion 7 year ago, they where quite large in 2022.
I had to look that up, you're talking about investment there, not earned revenue.
The 150M was their initial funding (actually 130M I think https://www.clay.com/dossier/openai-funding)
The 1B was from Microsoft in 2019: https://openai.com/index/microsoft-invests-in-and-partners-w...
In 2022 they only had 335 employees (according to various internet searches but I can't find an original source for that number.) I can't find credible numbers for revenue from the GPT-3 API, which did have some usage - GitHub Copilot started charging a subscription fee on June 21, 2022 - https://github.blog/changelog/2022-06-21-github-copilot-is-n... - and that was running on the OpenAI Codex model so presumably OpenAI had some revenue from that.","created_at":"2026-06-17T05:15:44Z","created_at_i":1781673344,"objectID":"48565997","parent_id":48565802,"story_id":48565130,"story_title":"Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn","story_url":"https://runtimewire.com/article/openai-leaked-financials-altman-compute-burn","updated_at":"2026-06-17T08:09:06Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"alephnerd"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["clay",".","com"],"value":"> Take Clay.com
Their revenue and additonal metrics which I cannot disclose does justify their valuation. Their ICP who are using them (RevOps and Marketing) also love it, and have begun reducing SFDC spend as a result.
> Nvidia and the companies whose main offering is computing power. Efficiency and commodification will lead to something akin to the fiber overbuild of the dot com era
Most foundation model companies are already rate limiting enterprise customers due to lack of compute capacity. There is an actual bottleneck in capacity that the buildout is solving.
> Because their core offering will be commodified
Get. This. In. Your. Head.
Commodification is treated as a win. It means 3-5 vendors can take majority of the marketshare while expanding TAM and giving later stage investors multipliers they can use to exit.
It also means distribution becomes the key factor, and that is a toggle that is easy to manage.
> Question becomes if there is or isn\u2019t a correction first. With its associated period of stalled growth (akin to the 2000s post bubble bursting)
A correction implies that there is an underutilization of capacity. We are not at that point, and won't be for the next 3-5 years.
Additionally, most foundation model companies are trying to expand up the chain into applications as well, much like how hyperscalers transitioned from being IaaS and adding additional abstraction layers to reduce deployment friction."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Will LLM-commodification cause growth to continue without a correction?"}},"_tags":["comment","author_alephnerd","story_47478132"],"author":"alephnerd","children":[47478509,47478771],"comment_text":"> Take Clay.com
Their revenue and additonal metrics which I cannot disclose does justify their valuation. Their ICP who are using them (RevOps and Marketing) also love it, and have begun reducing SFDC spend as a result.
> Nvidia and the companies whose main offering is computing power. Efficiency and commodification will lead to something akin to the fiber overbuild of the dot com era
Most foundation model companies are already rate limiting enterprise customers due to lack of compute capacity. There is an actual bottleneck in capacity that the buildout is solving.
> Because their core offering will be commodified
Get. This. In. Your. Head.
Commodification is treated as a win. It means 3-5 vendors can take majority of the marketshare while expanding TAM and giving later stage investors multipliers they can use to exit.
It also means distribution becomes the key factor, and that is a toggle that is easy to manage.
> Question becomes if there is or isn\u2019t a correction first. With its associated period of stalled growth (akin to the 2000s post bubble bursting)
A correction implies that there is an underutilization of capacity. We are not at that point, and won't be for the next 3-5 years.
Additionally, most foundation model companies are trying to expand up the chain into applications as well, much like how hyperscalers transitioned from being IaaS and adding additional abstraction layers to reduce deployment friction.","created_at":"2026-03-22T15:21:33Z","created_at_i":1774192893,"objectID":"47478454","parent_id":47478418,"story_id":47478132,"story_title":"Ask HN: Will LLM-commodification cause growth to continue without a correction?","updated_at":"2026-03-22T16:29:47Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"AbstractH24"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["clay",".","com"],"value":"Most companies that raised in the last 24 months.
Take Clay.com, what justifies the $5 billion valuation?
And all the frontier labs. Because their core offering will be commodified.
Finally, Nvidia and the companies whose main offering is computing power. Efficiency and commodification will lead to something akin to the fiber overbuild of the dot com era (like I referenced before)
As I type this out, I think there is an inevitable correction. Hard to say if it\u2019s akin to dot com era or not. And those who succeed 15 or 20 years ago will be ready to take advantage of it. Be through capital, through skills and knowledge, or through stealth companies. Question becomes when to pull the trigger on taking any of those of their respective sideline."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Will LLM-commodification cause growth to continue without a correction?"}},"_tags":["comment","author_AbstractH24","story_47478132"],"author":"AbstractH24","children":[47478454],"comment_text":"Most companies that raised in the last 24 months.
Take Clay.com, what justifies the $5 billion valuation?
And all the frontier labs. Because their core offering will be commodified.
Finally, Nvidia and the companies whose main offering is computing power. Efficiency and commodification will lead to something akin to the fiber overbuild of the dot com era (like I referenced before)
As I type this out, I think there is an inevitable correction. Hard to say if it\u2019s akin to dot com era or not. And those who succeed 15 or 20 years ago will be ready to take advantage of it. Be through capital, through skills and knowledge, or through stealth companies. Question becomes when to pull the trigger on taking any of those of their respective sideline.","created_at":"2026-03-22T15:17:43Z","created_at_i":1774192663,"objectID":"47478418","parent_id":47478367,"story_id":47478132,"story_title":"Ask HN: Will LLM-commodification cause growth to continue without a correction?","updated_at":"2026-03-23T14:30:23Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"toomuchtodo"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["clay",".","com"],"value":"https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/brex
https://www.clay.com/dossier/brex-funding
https://www.brex.com/"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/capital-one-buy-fintech-firm-brex-515-billion-deal-2026-01-22/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_toomuchtodo","story_46725288"],"author":"toomuchtodo","comment_text":"https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/brex
https://www.clay.com/dossier/brex-funding
https://www.brex.com/","created_at":"2026-01-22T21:32:32Z","created_at_i":1769117552,"objectID":"46725394","parent_id":46725288,"story_id":46725288,"story_title":"Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B","story_url":"https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/capital-one-buy-fintech-firm-brex-515-billion-deal-2026-01-22/","updated_at":"2026-03-05T23:23:39Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"hobofan"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["clay",".","com"],"value":"Clay as in clay.com. But yeah, it shouldn't be assumed that people know that."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: It's Like Clay but in Google Sheets"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.getvurge.com/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_hobofan","story_46317166"],"author":"hobofan","comment_text":"Clay as in clay.com. But yeah, it shouldn't be assumed that people know that.","created_at":"2025-12-22T22:54:55Z","created_at_i":1766444095,"objectID":"46360188","parent_id":46359977,"story_id":46317166,"story_title":"Show HN: It's Like Clay but in Google Sheets","story_url":"https://www.getvurge.com/","updated_at":"2026-03-05T23:16:44Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"graemefawcett"},"comment_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"I've had one job interview in my life and I was sweating so bad I wore a suit jacket in July, in Michigan... it might have contributed to the problem. I've been a software engineer for 20 years, responsible for billion dollar supply chains and developer platforms managing hundreds of millions of dollars of software revenue.
And I can't write FizzBuzz. Or anything really, not until I can see it. And then I have to get it out, find the structure, the shape of the solution in code. It's often not pretty but it works. And it scales. Because I'm not writing code, I'm extracting structure.
Now I have help. I built a translator. A real-time viewport for my agentic conversations. A context container in the shape of a detective case. All wired into emacs.
Now I have words for the shapes in my head. Intent to reality is modeling virtual clay.
Come see how"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"I built a translator for spatial thinking (because I can't interview in Python)"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.graemefawcett.ca/blog/faang-interview-one-step"}},"_tags":["comment","author_graemefawcett","story_45542564"],"author":"graemefawcett","comment_text":"I've had one job interview in my life and I was sweating so bad I wore a suit jacket in July, in Michigan... it might have contributed to the problem. I've been a software engineer for 20 years, responsible for billion dollar supply chains and developer platforms managing hundreds of millions of dollars of software revenue.
And I can't write FizzBuzz. Or anything really, not until I can see it. And then I have to get it out, find the structure, the shape of the solution in code. It's often not pretty but it works. And it scales. Because I'm not writing code, I'm extracting structure.
Now I have help. I built a translator. A real-time viewport for my agentic conversations. A context container in the shape of a detective case. All wired into emacs.
Now I have words for the shapes in my head. Intent to reality is modeling virtual clay.
Come see how","created_at":"2025-10-10T19:05:37Z","created_at_i":1760123137,"objectID":"45542565","parent_id":45542564,"story_id":45542564,"story_title":"I built a translator for spatial thinking (because I can't interview in Python)","story_url":"https://www.graemefawcett.ca/blog/faang-interview-one-step","updated_at":"2026-03-05T22:49:45Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"constantinum"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["clay",".","com"],"value":"How does this tool differ from Apollo.io, Clay.com, and Promptloop?
Tools like Clay and Apollo are often misused for spammy cold outreach\u2014which rarely works. The real value lies in enriching leads who\u2019ve already shown interest, helping align marketing efforts with the right prospects. Beyond that, more data doesn\u2019t always improve GTM decisions.
I'd love to hear(and learn) how others would want to use this tool specifically for GTM."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: Sumble \u2013 knowledge graph for GTM data \u2013 query tech stack, key projects"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://sumble.com"}},"_tags":["comment","author_constantinum","story_44501076"],"author":"constantinum","children":[44502448],"comment_text":"How does this tool differ from Apollo.io, Clay.com, and Promptloop?
Tools like Clay and Apollo are often misused for spammy cold outreach\u2014which rarely works. The real value lies in enriching leads who\u2019ve already shown interest, helping align marketing efforts with the right prospects. Beyond that, more data doesn\u2019t always improve GTM decisions.
I'd love to hear(and learn) how others would want to use this tool specifically for GTM.","created_at":"2025-07-08T17:38:26Z","created_at_i":1751996306,"objectID":"44502237","parent_id":44501076,"story_id":44501076,"story_title":"Show HN: Sumble \u2013 knowledge graph for GTM data \u2013 query tech stack, key projects","story_url":"https://sumble.com","updated_at":"2025-07-08T18:03:00Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"orliesaurus"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["clay",".","com"],"value":"Nice! This feels like Clay(.com) interface (sales people love it) but for every piece of data that needs adjacent information."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) \u2013 The web as a database"}},"_tags":["comment","author_orliesaurus","story_43906841"],"author":"orliesaurus","comment_text":"Nice! This feels like Clay(.com) interface (sales people love it) but for every piece of data that needs adjacent information.","created_at":"2025-05-06T22:34:44Z","created_at_i":1746570884,"objectID":"43910350","parent_id":43906841,"story_id":43906841,"story_title":"Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) \u2013 The web as a database","updated_at":"2025-05-07T05:32:19Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"ZephyrBlu"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["clay",".","com"],"value":"Two off the top of my head:
There are a lot of tools in the sales space which fit your criteria."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"AI Horseless Carriages"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://koomen.dev/essays/horseless-carriages/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_ZephyrBlu","story_43773813"],"author":"ZephyrBlu","children":[43781817],"comment_text":"Two off the top of my head:
There are a lot of tools in the sales space which fit your criteria.","created_at":"2025-04-24T12:04:13Z","created_at_i":1745496253,"objectID":"43781698","parent_id":43779189,"story_id":43773813,"story_title":"AI Horseless Carriages","story_url":"https://koomen.dev/essays/horseless-carriages/","updated_at":"2025-05-18T19:59:50Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"halamadrid"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["clay",".","com"],"value":"It requires the Pro subscription which I don't have. Does this mean websites like clay.com and copy.ai can be replaced with Operator? If something like that can be done then we are looking at an interesting future."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Introducing Operator"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://openai.com/index/introducing-operator/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_halamadrid","story_42806301"],"author":"halamadrid","comment_text":"It requires the Pro subscription which I don't have. Does this mean websites like clay.com and copy.ai can be replaced with Operator? If something like that can be done then we are looking at an interesting future.","created_at":"2025-01-24T01:20:54Z","created_at_i":1737681654,"objectID":"42809679","parent_id":42806301,"story_id":42806301,"story_title":"Introducing Operator","story_url":"https://openai.com/index/introducing-operator/","updated_at":"2025-01-24T01:23:28Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"ansonhw"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["clay",".","com"],"value":"Earlier this year, we launched Find AI v1:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40801494. It was a tool for searching LinkedIn-style data with natural language queries. It worked well for tech-focused searches, but the dataset was small and queries were limited.
With v3 (yes a 2 version improvement), we\u2019ve overhauled everything. Our new algorithm uses deep research agents combining multiple data sources and can search over 1B+ profiles (more than LinkedIn). The new version also handles more nuanced searches, like:
- For selling GPU Cloud services: \u201cCompanies that have done a Series A hiring for Pytorch\u201d
- For SDR\u2019s: "AI companies that raised $20M+ Series A."
- For VC Partners: "Ex-OpenAI employees founding 'stealth' startups."
- For IR Professionals: "Head of alternatives investing at large private wealth firms."
- For Recruiters: "Fullstack engineers experienced with Go and Svelte."
We deleted all our old code (Ruby on Rails) and rebuilt the entire stack with Go + Svelte 5 (which we love) for speed and scalability. It\u2019s now 10x faster, with a new UI and features like threaded searches.
We\u2019re also launching an API, so you can integrate Find AI into your own apps. The API has also launched as an integration in Clay\u2014learn more here: https://www.clay.com/university/lesson/find-ai-integration-o....
We started building Find AI to help founders, recruiters, and investors find the right people faster. Try it out here: https://usefind.ai/.
Would love your feedback and questions!"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Find AI v3 \u2013 Perplexity Meets LinkedIn (1B+ Profiles) + New API"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://usefind.ai/blog/find-ai-v3-search-for-people-companies-and-talent-with-1b-profiles-and-ai"}},"_tags":["comment","author_ansonhw","story_42275457"],"author":"ansonhw","comment_text":"Earlier this year, we launched Find AI v1:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40801494. It was a tool for searching LinkedIn-style data with natural language queries. It worked well for tech-focused searches, but the dataset was small and queries were limited.
With v3 (yes a 2 version improvement), we\u2019ve overhauled everything. Our new algorithm uses deep research agents combining multiple data sources and can search over 1B+ profiles (more than LinkedIn). The new version also handles more nuanced searches, like:
- For selling GPU Cloud services: \u201cCompanies that have done a Series A hiring for Pytorch\u201d
- For SDR\u2019s: "AI companies that raised $20M+ Series A."
- For VC Partners: "Ex-OpenAI employees founding 'stealth' startups."
- For IR Professionals: "Head of alternatives investing at large private wealth firms."
- For Recruiters: "Fullstack engineers experienced with Go and Svelte."
We deleted all our old code (Ruby on Rails) and rebuilt the entire stack with Go + Svelte 5 (which we love) for speed and scalability. It\u2019s now 10x faster, with a new UI and features like threaded searches.
We\u2019re also launching an API, so you can integrate Find AI into your own apps. The API has also launched as an integration in Clay\u2014learn more here: https://www.clay.com/university/lesson/find-ai-integration-o....
We started building Find AI to help founders, recruiters, and investors find the right people faster. Try it out here: https://usefind.ai/.
Would love your feedback and questions!","created_at":"2024-11-29T17:35:13Z","created_at_i":1732901713,"objectID":"42275458","parent_id":42275457,"story_id":42275457,"story_title":"Find AI v3 \u2013 Perplexity Meets LinkedIn (1B+ Profiles) + New API","story_url":"https://usefind.ai/blog/find-ai-v3-search-for-people-companies-and-talent-with-1b-profiles-and-ai","updated_at":"2024-11-29T20:21:15Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"warthog"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["clay",".","com"],"value":"How does this differ to a tool like Clay.com and their Claygent"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Launch HN: AnswerGrid (YC S24) \u2013 Web research tool for lead generation"}},"_tags":["comment","author_warthog","story_41322730"],"author":"warthog","children":[41324513,41324576],"comment_text":"How does this differ to a tool like Clay.com and their Claygent","created_at":"2024-08-22T21:03:02Z","created_at_i":1724360582,"objectID":"41324374","parent_id":41322730,"story_id":41322730,"story_title":"Launch HN: AnswerGrid (YC S24) \u2013 Web research tool for lead generation","updated_at":"2024-09-20T17:37:07Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"sha256bu"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["clay",".","com"],"value":"Hey!
I'm a software engineer at clay.com - our software helps you sell, and specifically run personalized outbound campaigns at scale. I'd love to try and help you and see if there are some learnings in the process.
Feel free to contact me adam@ my_company_domain"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Sales Tips for Solo Devs?"}},"_tags":["comment","author_sha256bu","story_37792300"],"author":"sha256bu","comment_text":"Hey!
I'm a software engineer at clay.com - our software helps you sell, and specifically run personalized outbound campaigns at scale. I'd love to try and help you and see if there are some learnings in the process.
Feel free to contact me adam@ my_company_domain","created_at":"2023-10-06T19:41:50Z","created_at_i":1696621310,"objectID":"37795291","parent_id":37792300,"story_id":37792300,"story_title":"Ask HN: Sales Tips for Solo Devs?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T15:20:59Z"}],"hitsPerPage":20,"nbHits":26,"nbPages":2,"page":0,"params":"query=clay.com&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":41,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"roundTrip":17},"afterFetch":{"format":{"highlighting":1,"total":1},"merge":{"mergeLoop":{"prepareNextHit":2,"total":2},"total":2},"total":3},"fetch":{"query":3,"scanning":33,"total":37},"total":41},"query":"clay.com","serverTimeMS":42}