For context, I own my own tech consulting business and want to find businesses that are trying to seriously start/expand an engineering team. I've already exhausted asking my network, existing clients, etc, and thinking of expanding now into more outbound stuff.
I was thinking of finding businesses that started using a particular Javascript framework or started using a "starter-level" devops product like BitBucket, as a way to find those businesses that are just beginning to scale their dev team
Are there any good alternatives out there? It feels like the type of tool that the HN crowd would be building...
AznHisoka•4mo ago
[1] Disclaimer: this is an API product I built myself and recently launched at bloomberry.com
Poomba•4mo ago
Poomba•4mo ago
Where does the technographic data come from? Is it scraped from websites? Or are you relying on another 3rd party source?
Is there anyway to get some trends data like how Builtwith has trend insights on how many of the top 100k websites use something like NextJS over time?
AznHisoka•4mo ago
As for trends, while we dont have something like Builtwith trends, you can easily collect all the data yourself via the API see how its trending using your favorite BI tool.
And yes we are missing some JS frameworks like nextjs and react. We chose to focus more on paid products instead. Builtwith (and its competitors like Whatruns, Wappalyzer and Similartech) is missing data on a lot of backoffice/backend products which we have data for
Poomba•4mo ago
Other than that the data is what I exactly need. Was able to find businesses that use Github, Gitlab and Grafana rather easily!
AznHisoka•4mo ago
Also, I wrote something on other Builtwith alternatives if you're interested: https://bloomberry.com/blog/5-builtwith-alternatives-for-tec... (if you're only looking at front-end tech, then Builtwith is probably the best bet FWIW)