Re:Ask HN: How do we fight LinkedIn/Microsoft
by legitster on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @01:13PM
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> Any thoughts on how we fight this battle?
Go into a different line of business.
Your business model is entirely dependent on free-riding on another company. LinkedIn has had anti-data scraping policies for over a decade, your business is not special, and you are PUTTING YOUR CUSTOMERS AT RISK by trying to knowingly find workarounds to LinkedIn's terms and conditions.
Use your creative energy to find other, better ways of providing value-add for sales teams. Automating something that should only take them a few seconds to do on their own is not actually improving the sales process - you are only helping them automate very, very low quality sales motions.
Go into a different line of business.
Your business model is entirely dependent on free-riding on another company. LinkedIn has had anti-data scraping policies for over a decade, your business is not special, and you are PUTTING YOUR CUSTOMERS AT RISK by trying to knowingly find workarounds to LinkedIn's terms and conditions.
Use your creative energy to find other, better ways of providing value-add for sales teams. Automating something that should only take them a few seconds to do on their own is not actually improving the sales process - you are only helping them automate very, very low quality sales motions.