Ask HN: Decent Builtwith alternative for finding leads?
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[1] Disclaimer: this is an API product I built myself and recently launched at bloomberry.com
Where does the technographic data come from? Is it scraped from websites? Or are you relying on another 3rd party source?
Is there anyway to get some trends data like how Builtwith has trend insights on how many of the top 100k websites use something like NextJS over time?
As for trends, while we dont have something like Builtwith trends, you can easily collect all the data yourself via the API see how its trending using your favorite BI tool.
And yes we are missing some JS frameworks like nextjs and react. We chose to focus more on paid products instead. Builtwith (and its competitors like Whatruns, Wappalyzer and Similartech) is missing data on a lot of backoffice/backend products which we have data for
Other than that the data is what I exactly need. Was able to find businesses that use Github, Gitlab and Grafana rather easily!
Also, I wrote something on other Builtwith alternatives if you're interested: https://bloomberry.com/blog/5-builtwith-alternatives-for-tec... (if you're only looking at front-end tech, then Builtwith is probably the best bet FWIW)
Bang on, I've been working on something that I've intended to be a cost-effective alternative to BuiltWith. I was thinking about just selling the datasets and allowing users to extract whatever they need from it. What technologies are you after?