Rapportive (YC S10): 10% of your emails aren't from real people

Rapportive is awesome, and this'll make it even better. I just launched the search on HN for a cofounder a couple days ago, and I probably got around 150 emails all in response. Getting a picture, name, location, Twitter, and other details for nearly every email really helped make things more personal and easier to whittle down applicants without intensive googling. Great application.

Rapportive is YC? I had no fucking clue. I signed up in March with the other 10,000 (yes, 10,000) who did in their first 24 hours. (EDIT: I originally said 30K; their blog says it was <i>merely</i> 10K in first 24 hours. My bad.)

I'd be very happy if 10% of the emails I receive <i>was</i> from real people.

I love this product. People have been talking "social email" for a long time.... But this is the first implementation that gives more than it distracts.<p>Wrt the new code that groks auto emails, I would love to see:<p>- seeing that a Twitter follow email is from Twitter doesn't do much for me. If it parsec the email and told me recent tweets from the follower? That would be awesome<p>- opening up this kind of support (email parsing) as plugins that could be crowd sourced would be great.<p>Love it.<p>D

I just added Rapportive to my google apps account. Looks promising, especially with Bantam Live integration (which I've been testing recently also).<p>Feedback: the sidebar is sticky (moves with the scrollbar), which can be cool, but also interferes if I have anything else in that sidebar.<p>Question: what makes Rapportive different/better than Etacts? I really like the Send+Remind feature that Etacts has, for instance.

That's pretty handy. I had just turned off Rapportive because of how many people it was unable to find. It just wasn't very useful (given the types of people I regularly communicate with).

Awesome work with company info. But instead of looking up the home page I feel it may be more relevant to look up the about pages. For example for orders@dynadot.com Rapportive tells me:<p><pre><code> &#62; Extends your domain by one year. Time remaining on your domain will be added. *Except .eu and .be. 3GB of bandwidth and 30MB of space. Applies to new domain registrations only. </code></pre> which happens to be the current offer for domain transfers on the Dynadot home page. I would prefer to see some info from the about page[1] though:<p><pre><code> &#62; Dynadot is an ICANN accredited domain name registrar and web host located in San Mateo, California... </code></pre> [1]: <a href="http://www.dynadot.com/company/about.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dynadot.com/company/about.html</a>

This is by far the best app I've used in a while. I run a service that involves a lot of email contact, and it's so nice to match a name to a face.

Nearly all of my emails are from real people... that is, the ones that get past GMail's spam filter, which is the only subset I care about.<p>I pretty aggressively mark as spam any auto-emails. Pretty much the only company I won't do this to is Amazon, not because I don't want to, but because I am scared to.