Show HN: Little tool to find prospect's email address (opens in new tab)

I would use a tool like this as our product does need hustling tools.

I used my own email id(plus a few more) and my actual email wasn't in search results. Looks like they just do standard string combinations.

Our aim is to source publicly available information and build a profile of a prospect for use by our clients. Maybe I am missing something and if I could see an explanation of their process that would engender more trust in their results.

Back to writing my own data mining tools..

Cute, I assume it start SMTP sessions with different cobinations and checks if the server does not return an error after corresponding RCPT TO. It will not work with "catch-all" servers. Hint for inproovement - so far it does not find emails with numbers like John123@gmail.com

"We cannot determine whether the email exists or not because the email service has a catch-all address." So, if you don't want to be found if someone uses that tool, then make sure you set up a catch-all address ;)

You Da Man!

I am particularly good at debugging, and I greatly enjoy it, but it is quite uncommon that I am offered purely debugging jobs.

I've had the idea of scouting around for well-financed programs that totally suck, then contacting their publishers to offer my service of fixing their broken code.

I haven't had any bites yet. Your service is very encouraging to me.

This tool is amazing! I think it works kind of like this: it splits firstname and lastname, tests for a response code on some random combination like "firstletterOfFirstName + last name" on a service like this http://verify-email.org/ very clever !!

Its very very similar to this tool that I use to find journalists email ID's. https://www.voilanorbert.com/

But mostly email addresses this tool predicts are not true.

Without giving too much away, how does this work and / or how reliable is it?

I was actually looking around for <famous VC>'s email and it produced one for me.

=/ It produced inaccurate results for myself and a few coworkers/friends. (both public domains like gmail/yahoo and corporate emails)

Aaaand my little catch-all mailbox and receive-rule renders this tool useless. Most excellent, less spam for me :)

Interesting. Bookmarked!

"Whoops, looks like something went wrong." oh dear :(

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