Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Person search API
Hi HN! We’re Abhilash Chowdhary, Chris Pisarski and Manmohit Grewal. We built Crustdata (YC F24). Today we’re launching our web search API for AI agents, which not only returns the most relevant documents from the web but also maps them to the correct entity (person, company or event). Demo video here https://youtu.be/IouWW97hBN8 If you run agents at scale, tokens become a line item. The web data is the worst input: long pages, repeated content, mixed entities, stale claims. The usual web search -> scrape -> summarize + structure forces the agent to spend tokens doing…
Person Search API is a developer tool that finds people data through a single API call, designed for AI agents and platforms. It offers over 60 filters that can be combined in various ways to identify specific… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Lessie AI▲406Hi HN! I’m Yanjun, co-founder of Lessie AI. We built Lessie AI as a People Search AI Agent — designed to help you find anyone in seconds: - Influencers for campaigns - Partners for collaborations - Experts for insights - Founders or investors to connect with Instead of spending hours doing LinkedIn / Google searches, Lessie automates the whole workflow: - Understand your request — type what you need, any role or profile - Search across multiple data sources — trying different strategies to find the right people - AI review + scoring — profiles are automatically filtered and ranked so…
Apr 2026 · lessie.ai · its alternatives →
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HasData▲430Get valuable data from any website without need for a proxy
May 2026 · hasdata.com · its alternatives →
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Context.dev▲814Hello, My name is Yahia, I've been working on scraping products for a long time and maintain a couple of free sites in my spare time (E.g. knifegeek.io) What prompted this is i've rebuilt scraping infra at every company I've started and finally just made it a product. Pass a URL, get clean markdown, html, images, sitemap or pass a domain, get logos, colors, socials, industry data. Goal is to offer a better service than VC funded competitors at a fraction of the cost. Stealth is included and automatic at no additional cost (normally an upcharge by alternatives). Would love your honest thoughts.
Jul 2026 · context.dev · its alternatives →
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Our most accurate Search API for AI agents.
Jul 2026 · docs.firecrawl.dev · its alternatives →
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Linkeddit▲618The tool actually hit Product Hunt #1 back in February. Since then I’ve added a bunch more on top of the original version. Now you just describe the intent or goal for the leads you want, and it searches based on keywords and a bunch of other signals to surface the best ones for you. I also added a Reddit-powered content writer. Basically, you pick a topic or category, and it pulls the top posts from Reddit, analyzes what made them go viral, and helps you write content using the same patterns. Reddit is super underrated for content. If something blows up there, it almost always spreads to…
2025 · linkeddit.com · its alternatives →
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Web site created using create-react-app
2024 · bernawil.github.io · its alternatives →
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ExploreYC▲565Open-source API for Y Combinator & a16z company data
Jul 2026 · exploreyc.com · its alternatives →
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/agent by Firecrawl ▲569While building mendable - we found that feeding LLMs well-structured markdown improved accuracy. We also found it surprisingly hard. We found some great tools online, but none reliably handled the entire process. We wanted an API that took a URL, crawled the pages in the URL, and gave us an easy-to-use, up-to-date markdown we could feed into our index. So, we released an open-source repo and an API that crawls and turns entire websites into a markdown with just a few lines of code The API handles: - Crawling without consistent sitemaps - Infra to handle running many crawling jobs - Proxying,…
Dec 2025 · firecrawl.dev · its alternatives →
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GenAI powered search for your app and website
2024 · devrev.ai · its alternatives →
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Reddit Answers▲377Real answers from real people, powered by Reddit communities
2024 · reddit.com · its alternatives →
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Humantic AI API▲107API for instant personality insights and personalization
2020 · api.humantic.ai · its alternatives →
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Web Search API▲174Give AI Agents Access to Live Internet Data
17d ago · developers.cloudflare.com · its alternatives →
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As a founder, finding early customers is always a challenge. I'd come up with specific guesses for people to talk to - such "VCs that used to be startup founders" or "Former lawyers who are now CTOs." Running those types of searches typically involves opening dozens of LinkedIn profiles in tabs, and looking at them one-by-one. And, it turns out that going through LinkedIn profiles one-by-one is a daily job for many people. I started building Find AI to make it easier to search for people. I initially started just having GPT review people's LinkedIn profiles and websites, but it cost…
2024 · usefind.ai · its alternatives →
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The API to search & enrich 54 million companies
2022 · thecompaniesapi.com · its alternatives →
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HumanCircles.AI▲218Generative AI making human circles more meaningful
2023 · humancircles.ai · its alternatives →
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Search trough and subscribe to Hacker News
2018 · whoishiring.me · its alternatives →
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Exa Websets▲160Hey HN! I'm Will, founder of Exa (YC21 - https://exa.ai). Today we're opening up Websets, a search engine that finds massive lists of correct results given complex queries. For example, you can search for: - “software engineers in the Bay Area, with experience in startups and big tech, who know Rust and have published technical content”: https://websets.exa.ai/cm7ax5bl8003276q689v0dde5 - “US based healthcare companies, with over 100 employees and a technical founder": https://websets.exa.ai/cm6lc0dlk004ilecmzej76qx2 - "research paper about ways to…
2025 · websets.exa.ai · its alternatives →
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Anakin▲148Every second thing I build needs to access the web, and I was frustrated with not finding something that just works all the time. With my team, we built this because I wanted to enable access to extremely difficult websites and apps for every AI agent. We have solved this cat-and-mouse problem with self-healing built in. It's one API to get data from hostile sites, and it can do easy sites too. You POST a URL and get back Markdown, JSON, HTML, a screenshot, or all of them. That same call handles anti-bot, proxy rotation, JS rendering, persistent authenticated sessions, and schema-based…
2021 · anakin.io · its alternatives →
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Unified API for AI answers from all your apps
2024 · support.dashworks.ai · its alternatives →
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Manifold MCPfree tier, from $20/mo▲166SEO, AI answers, social, ads and leads data for your agent
10d ago · manifoldmcp.com · its alternatives →
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Thousands of tools to automate your business. Get real-time web data, track competitors, generate leads, and integrate your apps and AI agents.
2015 · apifier.com · its alternatives →
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Crawlify▲165AI powered data extraction APIs. Hassle-free data retrieval.
2020 · crawlify.io · its alternatives →
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