Without being able to see the site, just a guess-question here - but how does this compare to FullContact or Refresh.io (recently sucked up by LinkedIn)?
We're always happy to see more companies set up shop in this space. It helps to keep us on our toes.
At first blush, it seems that EveryoneAPI is focused primarily on phone numbers. Conversely, our focus with FullContact is much more in line with social profile and public social data. Though you certainly can query the FullContact Person API via a phone number, that's never been our primary focus.
With relation to the comment about speed, it's worth noting that greater than 95% of Person API queries are returned in 30ms or less. But to the end user, depending upon where they are hosted, network latency can play a large role in the actual response time, which is a factor for any http based API traffic.
Like EveryoneAPI, we prefer to compete on merit rather than slinging mud. If you have a project that you're building, I'd love to see how we can help. Our APIs are always free to get started, so you can see your results before ever having to pay.
Telo isn't new to this space. OpenCNAM has been around for nearly 5 years and EveryoneAPI was launched a year ago. We have just been doing some updates and now offer a free $0.50 trial.
Record availability probably would have been a better way to phrase it rather than speed. While I am not familiar with the latency of the FullContact API, I have experience a sort of fulfillment period (come back later) for records that require more sourcing efforts. That is unless that has changed. We focus on real-time responses that span nearly the entire NANPA dialing plan (US, Canada, Caribbean and part of Central America). In terms of the data-points and focus you are correct that our focus is on the data associated with the phone number query. We do plan to expand our phone coverage to international dialing plans outside of NANPA (NPA-NXX-XXXX) by the end of the year and will be offering a forward append service for name and address as well.
The site is back up. We had attempted a hotfix that did not deploy correctly to the front end. In terms of comparisons, while we do not like to mention competitors in a negative light, we can say that our data is returned in milliseconds. Additionally, our coverage is extremely accurate and built from authoritative sources. We also provide a more robust set of data-points that are not offered by those services.
We do not have that sort of collateral drafted yet, but it is something we would like to be able to offer folks such as yourself. Real time results are something that jumps out at me with respect to Full Contact. There are times where they do not have the record immediately and that can hinder some businesses depending on the use case. The added data-points offered is also something that stands out to me with respect to both. Perhaps the carrier or line provider data is important because you may need to know if a phone number is a Google Voice number. Or if you are looking for address and some bit of social data such as hometown or education, that might be a combination you can only find with EveryoneAPI.
As I mentioned we will be working to develop some collateral to that end. After well over 10 years in the data space I would say that the best way to compare is to do a batch > 1000 records head to head. :)
We're always happy to see more companies set up shop in this space. It helps to keep us on our toes.
At first blush, it seems that EveryoneAPI is focused primarily on phone numbers. Conversely, our focus with FullContact is much more in line with social profile and public social data. Though you certainly can query the FullContact Person API via a phone number, that's never been our primary focus.
With relation to the comment about speed, it's worth noting that greater than 95% of Person API queries are returned in 30ms or less. But to the end user, depending upon where they are hosted, network latency can play a large role in the actual response time, which is a factor for any http based API traffic.
Like EveryoneAPI, we prefer to compete on merit rather than slinging mud. If you have a project that you're building, I'd love to see how we can help. Our APIs are always free to get started, so you can see your results before ever having to pay.