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FullContact
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FullContact is the company blog at fullcontact.com, writing about startups and business. Since 2011, 49 different Hacker News readers have linked it 191 times, most often “An API that turns partial contacts into full contacts”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Commenters mostly link FullContact's blog as a pointer to its $7,500 'Paid Paid Vacation' perk, plus a 2014 post on LinkedIn's CRM changes and a MongoDB-to-Cassandra migration post. Many comments are job listings.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
FullContact Identity Resolution allows businesses to recognize an individual person, in real-time, by connecting various identifiers from their digital interactions.
Most-linked posts?
- An API that turns partial contacts into full contacts4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-03-31
- /about/careers/3 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2016-07-01
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-09-15
- Paid Vacation? That’s Not Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Paid, Paid Vacation.3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-07-11
- What we learned migrating from MongoDB to Cassandra3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-12-18
- /about/careers/denver2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-02-06
- /developer/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-17
- Paid Vacation? Not Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Paid, PAID Vacation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-01
- /blog/paid-paid-vacation/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-10
- How we used immutable servers to simplify cloud infrastructure2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-12-10
What Hacker News says?
Just after acquisition, Linkedin started systematically shutting down available API resources, and removing CRM support. Microsoft reigns in eventually. source: https://www.fullcontact.com/blog/linkedin-state-of-crm-2014/ redacted: i mistook the acquisition date
Comment linking /blog/linkedin-state-of-crm-2014/
on “Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub”Submitted Paid Vacation? That’s Not Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Paid, Paid Vacation. as a story · 388 points
HN discussionFullContact | Remote and VISA | Denver |Principal Algorithm Engineer |Sr. Data Engineer | https://www.fullcontact.com/careers FullContact is the premier provider of SaaS-based identity resolution that empowers brands to improve their customer experience and authentically engage with consumers. We're hiring for 2 leadership roles on our identity resolution team. This team is helping us change the data landscape and w…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?”Submitted Migrating from MongoDB to Cassandra as a story · 114 points
HN discussionFullContact ( https://fullcontact.com ) | Denver, Boulder, Dallas, Riga | Full-Time | Remote or On-site FullContact’s mission is to help the world stay fully connected, master its contacts, and be awesome with people. (& yes - all roles include $7,500 Paid PAID Vacation: https://www.fullcontact.com/blog/paid-paid-vacation/ ) We are currently hiring: * Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform * Product Manager - Data…
Comment linking /about/careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”Submitted Don't Get Grinfucked By Your Users as a story · 70 points
HN discussionFull Contact does the same thing: employees get $7500 to go on vacation, but only get it if they actually go on vacation. https://www.fullcontact.com/blog/paid-paid-vacation/
Comment linking /blog/paid-paid-vacation/
on “Travis CI: From Open to Minimum Vacation Policy”Submitted LinkedIn’s Bad Terms of Service as a story · 40 points
HN discussionFullContact ( https://fullcontact.com ) | Denver, Boulder | Full-Time | On-site FullContact’s mission is to help the world stay fully connected, master its contacts, and be awesome with people. (& yes - all roles include $7,500 Paid PAID Vacation: https://www.fullcontact.com/blog/paid-paid-vacation/ ) We are currently hiring: * Senior Software Engineer - Identity Resolution on Data Platform More details about the op…
Comment linking /about/careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)”Submitted Your Mom is Not a Valid Test Market as a story · 39 points
HN discussionFullContact ( https://fullcontact.com ) | Denver, Boulder, Dallas, Riga | Full-Time | Remote or On-site FullContact’s mission is to help the world stay fully connected, master its contacts, and be awesome with people. (& yes - all roles include $7,500 Paid PAID Vacation: https://www.fullcontact.com/blog/paid-paid-vacation/ ) We are currently hiring: * Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform * Senior Security Engine…
Comment linking /about/careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted Denver's gSchool: 6 months and 60 hours per week turns you into a web developer as a story · 36 points
HN discussionFullContact ( http://fullcontact.com ) | Denver, CO | Platform Engineer | Full-Time We're building a core contact management / identity resolution platform that enables single users / businesses / enterprises utilize us as a their core solution. Think Slack / Dropbox for Contacts. We Love Clojure / Java, and run on AWS. Too many technologies to list here. Apply Here: https://www.fullcontact.com/about/careers/denver/
Comment linking /about/careers/denver/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted Scan business cards into more than 250 apps as a story · 34 points
HN discussionFullContact ( https://fullcontact.com ) | Denver | Full-Time | On-site FullContact’s mission is to help the world stay fully connected, master its contacts, and be awesome with people. (& yes - all roles include $7,500 Paid PAID Vacation: https://www.fullcontact.com/blog/paid-paid-vacation/ ) We are currently hiring: * Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform * DevOps Engineer * Foundation Engineer * Senior Product…
Comment linking /about/careers/denver
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted Show HN: Our attempt at fixing Google Contacts as a story · 28 points
HN discussionFullContact ( https://fullcontact.com ) | Denver | Full-Time | On-site FullContact’s mission is to help the world stay fully connected, master its contacts, and be awesome with people. (& yes - all roles include $7,500 Paid PAID Vacation: https://www.fullcontact.com/blog/paid-paid-vacation/ ) We are currently hiring: * Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform * DevOps Engineer * Foundation Engineer * Senior Product…
Comment linking /about/careers/denver
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted LinkedIn Just Removed the Ability to Export Your Contacts as a story · 22 points
HN discussionFullContact ( https://fullcontact.com ) | Denver, Boulder, Dallas, Riga | Full-Time | Remote or On-site FullContact’s mission is to help the world stay fully connected, master its contacts, and be awesome with people. We are currently hiring: * DevOps / SRE * UX Designer * Developer Evangelist More details about the open positions: https://www.fullcontact.com/about/careers/
Comment linking /about/careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)”Submitted What this CEO Learned from a Day on the Help Desk as a story · 17 points
HN discussionFullContact ( https://fullcontact.com ) | Denver, Boulder, Dallas, Riga | Full-Time | Remote or On-site FullContact’s mission is to help the world stay fully connected, master its contacts, and be awesome with people. (& yes - all roles include $7,500 Paid PAID Vacation: https://www.fullcontact.com/blog/paid-paid-vacation/ ) We are currently hiring: * Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform * Senior Security Engine…
Comment linking /about/careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)”Submitted FullContact Acquires Cobook with Pot, Ski Passes and Dogecoin as a story · 14 points
HN discussionFullContact ( https://fullcontact.com ) | Denver, Boulder, Dallas, Riga | Full-Time | Remote or On-site FullContact’s mission is to help the world stay fully connected, master its contacts, and be awesome with people. (& yes - all roles include $7,500 Paid PAID Vacation: https://www.fullcontact.com/blog/paid-paid-vacation/ ) We are currently hiring: * Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform * Senior Security Engine…
Comment linking /about/careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)”Submitted What we learned migrating from MongoDB to Cassandra as a story · 12 points
HN discussionActually (after contacting their support because of wrong data that was returned for my contact), they seem to be using https://clearbit.com/ instead as backend. enrich.email also does the same, though. There’s also https://fullcontact.com . In the end they all just search and scrape social media profiles and gravatar.
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on “800M Email Addresses Leaked Online by Email Verification Service”Submitted FullContact for Android as a story · 10 points
HN discussionFullContact ( https://fullcontact.com ) | Denver, Boulder | Full-Time | On-site FullContact’s mission is to help the world stay fully connected, master its contacts, and be awesome with people. (& yes - all roles include FULL medical and $7,500 Paid PAID Vacation: https://www.fullcontact.com/blog/paid-paid-vacation/ ) We are currently hiring: * Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform * Senior Solutions Software Eng…
Comment linking /about/careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)”Submitted Show HN: Keep Multiple Google Accounts in Sync Automatically as a story · 9 points
HN discussionFullContact | Multiple Positions | Denver, CO | ONSITE, https://www.fullcontact.com We’re solving the world’s contact information problem and looking for amazingly talented people to join our team in downtown Denver. We're a primarily JVM focused shop with some very challenging data and scale problems for you to tackle. If you're interested in working with large, messy datasets at scale, we'd love to talk with you.…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)”Submitted FullContact Company API – Add rich company data to your apps as a story · 9 points
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