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Clearbit Connect — Rapportive on steroids. See data about contacts in Gmail.

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Alex MacCaw
I'm really stoked to offer Product Hunters exclusive access to our next product: Connect. Connect surfaces personal and company information right inside your Gmail next to every conversation. If you've missed the old Rapportive, then this is the answer you've been looking for. Connect will also let you find any business email address, so no more trawling through sites or guessing emails. Just hit that blue Clearbit logo when composing an email. Behind the scenes Connect uses the technology and dataset powering Clearbit.com's APIs. We're offering Connect exclusively to Product Hunters today. This is an early product for us and we're still figuring out how it fits in our product line. However, anyone who signs up today will always have free access.
Tom Moor
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@maccaw hey Alex love the way you've been taking Clearbit over the last year or so! Quick question - when you connect gmail it asks for permission to view your contacts, I'm sure that's required for the functionality but do you pull these into cb to further improve your dataset?
Pouyan Salehi
@maccaw Great work here! I love the design and how easy it is to use.
Elia Morling
@maccaw Thanks! Curious how this compares to Nimble contacts?
Daniel Schildt
@tommoor @maccaw Agree on that. There should be more clear details on whether Clearbit Connect is storing (or using) submitted email records in any way.
Jason Dainter
Great work on this, very valuable product @maccaw
Hiten Shah
Rapportive was useful. Clearbit Connect is really really useful. Finding any business email address feels like magic. If you aren't using this yet, get on it! It's worth it.
Anthony Zazo
Does it work for Inbox?
Matt Sornson
@azazo Not yet, but we're thinking about a minimalist version for Inbox. Stay tuned :)
David West
@mattsornson @azazo Bump here - would love to see for Inbox. Power users like myself would love this.
Alex MacCaw
@tommoor @lorendsr Good question! Part of the deal with using Connect is that you share your contacts with us. It's essentially a give-to-get model. This helps us improve our algorithms making our data better for the entire community. We're taking a very careful approach to this, we realize it's a sensitive area. Definitely open for feedback!
Steve Domin
@maccaw @tommoor @lorendsr are you sending and storing the full emails to your servers? Or just extracting the contact info?
Tom Moor
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@maccaw @lorendsr It seems like a fair swap to me - i'd just be super careful about making sure folks realise this is the deal 😄
Wade Foster
Been using this for a while and it's great. Definitely the best Rapportive replacement. But the sneaky good prospecting tool is super handy for sleuthing out emails that would otherwise take a while to track down.
Michael Oshman
Sweet! Hoping for a Safari extension.
Owen Williams
Wow, the prospect tool is AMAZING! I've been waiting for something this well built to exist -- thank you!
Gordon Wintrob
I've been using this Chrome extension constantly in Gmail. It pulls in a ton of info about people I'm emailing and where they work (like # of employees and fundraising). I also love that I can quickly look up someone email's address just knowing their name and company. Very slick!
Scott Britton
This is an excellent product. I was really sad when rapportive stopped updating their tool, and am glad Clearbit is picking up where they left off. Everything clearbit is doing is really exciting to me, and the connect feature is something I use everyday in my existing flow : )
Gregory Koberger
I've been using this for a few weeks, and it's been great. It's beautiful and works great. Clearbit has been doing awesome things recently.
BabyQin

I just can't see paying $466 per month for a license -OR- giving them complete access to all of my contacts.

Pros:

Authorized integration with MS

Cons:

Your contact database is up for grabs

Sebastian Hoitz
Everything that comes out of Clearbit feels polished. So does Clearbit Connect offer a very smooth and nice integration into Gmail and allow the user to easily prospect emails and see additional information to the conacts. Nicely done!
Dan Reich
Haven't seen a company so focused on customer data like Clearbit. This is another great addition to their portfolio of products. Gmail plugin goodness.
Luca Hammer
Is a Firefox-Addon planned?
Drew Moxon
Another stellar release from Clearbit. The "find email" flow is elegantly simple for finding by company. Looking through my emails, the personhood information seems to be about as good as Rapportive, although there's a much simpler display of information. @maccaw and team are on fire.
Aaron Hanson
Very satisfied Clearbit user. This Chrome extension looks amazing
Walid Ark
What an amazing product! I can see this tool becoming "mattermark" within "Gmail". Great job guys and THANK YOU!
Dexter Hart
Clearbit Connect is a gamechanger not only for sales reps, but marketing, operations, finance and beyond. Having access to Clearbit's database within gmail is so valuable. Fast APIs, slick lightwight plugin, tons of quality data, try it.
Josh Buckley
I've been using this extension inside of my gmail and it's a game changer. Super excited to see this product finally released!
Michael Thomas
As a power user of Rapportive I can attest that this is the real deal. The Clearbit team is also full of smart people which means it will only continue to improve over the months.