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Re:How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service on Thursday May 03, 2018 @01:32AM (#16983561)
>They are one of those great companies that you want to emulate

I created an Algolia account once with my personal github account, just for testing purposes. Starting the next day and continuing for a few weeks, I received a stream of emails from their sales people requesting times to schedule phone calls, and telling me how much they can help my company. I had no idea how they knew which company I worked for until I checked my linkedin and found Algoia people were visiting my profile. They have some seriously stalkerish sales practices.