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Slik — Get automated leads from a database of 70 million people 📊
Slik is a platform that automates sales prospecting and lead generation. We've built a database of over 70 million people and created a simple way to filter through that database so that salespeople can save time and easily find leads that they want to reach out to.
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@joshuajomiller Hey Joshua, we only charge users for emails that we find and are deliverable.
@joshuajomiller @stefanstok Hey Joshua.
The product seems really cool, but I got 35 credits used (out of the free 50) and I have 7 emails once I upload this into my mailchimp account.
Is there a way to just select those with emails ?
@stefanstok @joseph_ayoub
Joseph, I recommend you asking your question to @stefanstok the maker. I am just an interested PH'er :) I Can't help you with you questions!
What's the next big evolution of slik.ai? Obviously I've been a fan since the start. What next?
(I used to use your chrome extension)
Hi everyone! I'm Stefan, the co-founder of Slik, we're excited to be on Product Hunt today, and launching our latest product, an all-new way to automate prospecting and lead generation. We've built up a database of over 70 million people and created a a simple way to filter through that database so that salespeople can save time and automate their process of gathering leads and figuring out who to reach out to.
Last year, we originally launched a Chrome extension that could find anyone's email address, but we realized that salespeople still had major issues with their workflow. So over the past few months, we've been focusing on creating our latest product, which solves a majority of the core issues we've seen salespeople have for prospecting.
We collect all of our data without any human involvement, which allows us to have much higher accuracy than competitors(95% email accuracy compared to 50 - 60%), and be 1/3 of the cost.
We're offering a 50 lead free trial, so would love for you to test it out & hear your feedback! Feel free to comments here, or email me stefan@slik.ai, if you have any questions or comments.
@slik @stefanstok @soroushg_ Congrats on the hustle and hard work. Been watching this product grow from the initial concept.
@slik @stefanstok I signed up for a trial and tried exporting 7 leads and it didn't have email addresses for 5 of them, but it deducted credits for all 7. Does it count records without emails against the credits in the premium account as well?
@slik @stefanstok Congrats Stefan. I dont see the lead details after I create the list. Am I missing something?
@slik @stefanstok Nice work. My partner is a interior designer, would you recommend Silk.ai for generating local leads?
Im curious to know about the 'advanced filtering' what kind of fields can you segment by? It doesnt have much info on this on your website.
One question - is this 95% accuracy an overall percentage or do some of the categories listed there have higher/lower accuracies as well?
@gorkemcetin There is certainly variance depending on the person and their employer's online presence. Generally, it should be over 90% for any industry though.
Since the launch of Slik (and i think even before),i have been following the journey of @soroushg_
and @stefanstok The 2 are really impressive and 2 hard-working and talented young people 👍 They are inspiring young people to start 💪
Congratulations on the launch today !! 🎉
Also congratulations on joining YCombinator for the S17 Batch. Just by joining YC you are breaking a record so I am looking forward to Demo Day 🙌
I'm a few days late here (blame it on the beach! haha), but I'm just as excited as everyone else to see @stefanstok and @soroushg_ launch @slik after all the time they've spent working so hard on it. Like a few other people here, I've been privy to parts of the building process, and had numerous discussion with Stefan on how things have progressed, culminating very much in their YC acceptance. Very happy to see it finally up, congrats guys!
OK, we decided to give it a go.. Created a handpicked list of 50 contacts. Exported and it only exported 37, and only it included 23 with emails. Of the 23 only 7 were "verified" and 16 were "catchall" ... Attempted to verify the 23 emails and only 16 verified. 16/50 of emails. Nowhere near 90%+ as claimed. Is there something missing with this process?
@angus_halen You can send cold emails in the US and most other countries by following CAN-SPAM or respective guidelines. You just have to make sure you include a few things like a way to opt out of future emails, make sure the email is not misleading, etc. You can read more about it here - https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/...
@soroushg_ thanks for this info. Sounds pretty dodgy though. I'm not sure if you're aware of the new laws landing in Europe early next year.
@soroushg_ some info for anyone in the U.K. - cold emailing can lead to a minimum £5000 fine and as of march next year the fines are increasing to be absolutely astronomical: http://www.lawdonut.co.uk/busine...
Hey Makers! I'm Soroush, the co-founder of Slik. Thank you Nick for hunting us.
We have a free trial of 50 credits if you signup at slik.ai. Would love to get feedback and I'll be on Product Hunt all day today answering questions, so ask away.
I'd be very cautious using any email leads like this outside of the US. While it doesn't breach CAN-SPAM, it does breach PECR, CASL, German law and the upcoming GDPR to name a few. My advice is never to send cold emails.
@samsexton I think there's a distinction between selling and marketing here. If the data was collated from public sources and not from lists where the user gave permission for something else entirely then it should be fine.
As long as it's transactional and not marketing. Adding these into a sales sequence and waiting for a reply is no different from researching yourself and emailing personally.
*As long as all these emails are gathered from public sources.*
@samsexton Your advice is poorly positioned. Here's some evidence: http://bit.ly/viciousgrowth
@stinhambo unfortunately the law just isn't with you on this. The PECR regulations for instance, prohibit unsolicited mail to individuals and it makes special note that an individual is any one person. So public or not, that does not omit email senders from the law.
@datarade On the contrary I think good business ethics and following the law of the countries in which you send are very good bits of advice.
@stinhambo @samsexton How do you think LinkedIn grew massive?
or SocialCam?
etc... Your advice is okay, but not good for new companies in the USA.
Love the new product guys! I was an early Slik user back in the Chrome extension days and it's been great to watch the product evolve. Do you have plans to add other types of metadata to the service?
Nice product, but am I the only one to think that the icon used on the logo image screams "Telegram Messenger"?
It appears that Silk collects people's information without taking any express permission. Is this legal?
Love the dedication and hard work of this team. Been following along since the beginning. Seriously a helpful tool and I'm glad others agree too. Good luck! 👍🏻🙏🏻
@stefanstok this is really helpful and a great resource to find email ID's. If you could add corporate phone numbers of contacts, that would be a great value add as well for inside sales and marketing teams!
Game changer for outbound sales. Cheaper and more accurate than using something like data.com, and faster/cheaper than LinkedIn. @soroushg_ @stefanstok can you share any more technical details about how slik works, and the tech stack powering the service?
Another awesome product from the amazing team at Slik! Been trying out the beta for the past few weeks and it works great. Definitely going to change the prospecting/lead generation game!
Homepage really needs to show some of the USP's of this product and how this list is better than just buying a spammed list from a seller from another source. How do we know we are getting getting quality leads?
This is really cool, @stefanstok & @soroushg_! Super stoked to see the second ideation of Slik's vision for the future of sales automation. Keep up the great work!
@soroushg_ @dmfj Thanks Dominic, appreciate you testing it out early on!
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