Ask HN: Any suggestions for identifying macOS users in outbound?

[ryanmelehan]

I am building an application for macOS. In my outbound sales efforts, I am looking to filter out those who use Windows as their computer.

This is only temporary, but I don't want to waste my time on people who can't even use the software.

LinkedIn has great filters for industry, job title, etc. Is there a service that provides something similar for OS? Preferably with emails or LinkedIn profiles?

I would image this would be possible given all ad platforms track things like Device type, etc. What am I missing ?

[bootstrpppin]

I don't think it's possible, but a fun problem to solve...

You could probably build something to ping their number an iMessage.

If it sends as an SMS they probably don't have an iPhone, and therefore probably don't have a Mac.

[ryanmelehan]

Interesting approach. I wonder if you could ping the iCloud servers to figure out if an email is associated to an iCloud account (I.e. for FaceTime validation). But imagine it's pretty locked down...

[bootstrpppin]

yeah potentially -

I think you can potentially detect which email clients emails open in, so you may gain some interesting insight once you've sent some cold emails.