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Grabby — Fast and easy way of collecting email addresses
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Dennis Ideler
Love how the customer quotes are anonymous. As if it wasn't obvious enough how shady of a product this is.
I've done email scraping when I was a student, for personal projects and even got paid by a faculty member for his passion project. It's unethical, I'll never do it again, and I strongly suggest you do not start collecting emails in such a way if it'll be used for cold emailing or selling email addresses.
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"Remember that startup that died because it was scraping emails?" said no one ever.
I love this product. It's like a much cheaper version of emailhunter.co,clearbit.com, and fullcontact.com.
$0.04/hr and $5 per a project.
That's sooo cheapp.
@datarade how have the results been for you and how long do your campaigns normally take. i like the interface and idea but didn't have a great experience from running 2 campaigns.
Relevant Scraping/Crawling Lead Mining Tools:
http://grabby.io
http://fullcontact.com
http://emailhunter.co
http://clearbit.com
http://toofr.com
http://import.io
http://kimonolabs.com
http://apifier.com (favs)
http://elink.club
http://www.eliteproxyswitcher.com/ - ;)
This looks really cool, but are you seriously asking for my VAT ID number at sign up?
I can see both sides of this. My first thought was that it's like emailhunter without as much work. There are a lot of products that can be used for bad, but they can also be used for good. Emailhunter was just marketed differently so it did not have this response from ProductHunt, although the downsides are very similar to this product.
@melissamonteee I actually believe you've mischaracterizd it.
There's a massive price difference between email hunter and Grabby.io.
Grabby is charging you to spin up a machine and hours on the machine.
I wonder how accurate these emails are. Aka...what if the open and bounce rates are garbage because the quality of email leads are not so great? Also, if it just grabbing emails off of that pages, then you may not necessarily be getting emails of the decision makers or even user base, just basic support or info emails.
I'm sure there's some legitimate applications, but it seems like this is exactly what the email harvesting portions of Can-Spam identify as illegal, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em...
or is there something I'm missing?
@jared_beauchamp No, you are 100% correct. If using this for mass email (in Canada) you will find yourself in court, the way Porter Airlines did, to the tune of a $150,000 fine.
@akingcreative Sometimes, being vicious is necessary. http://kumar.party/2016/01/26/so...
That being said, never do anything illegal.
@akingcreative Most lead gen companies abuse rotating IPs and more to get databases of info.
@datarade "Hey Man, here's a gun. It can shoot a piece of metal so fast that it can kill someone instantly. That being said, never do anything illegal."
Points for it being a well built tool but you're just loading scammers and spammers with more ammo.
I can't think of any situation where I (or anyone else) would be pleased with the fact that I was subscribed to their list using a tool like this.
@akingcreative I don't necessarily care. Also, I didn't build the product.
I've already come to understand in my short time in web that the internet is a gangster's paradise, sometimes you have to be a F****** mobster to get a product out there.
Sometimes, it's necessary. Thank goodness Kalanick is die hard about getting Uber everywhere as it reduces total car count.
Spammers' paradise. Another reason to show e-mail addresses as images (if it is not such as smartass to grab the address from the image).
I agree with the comments regarding the CAN-SPAM act. Assuming ethical concerns are addressed, it would be nice to collect the associated name and title too.
@mespi can spam in the US applies to consumer addresses. Cold emailing a business regarding a business concern is excluded from the provisions. It is unlikely that anyone would be using this for a B2C context. B2B, totally legal and kosher :-)
I'm all about building up my email list but, at first glance, this method seems a bit unethical and possibly illegal. I'm I missing something?
Users of this service must be careful with Spamtraps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp...), by adding the emails returned one may end up banishing its mail service.
