Clearbit Blog
blog.clearbit.com · Company blog · on HN since 2015
The Clearbit blog covers the company's engineering, management, and product launches, including free logo and autocomplete APIs and its infrastructure setup.
What HN saysCommenters link it for practical engineering posts, such as running Sinatra services on CoreOS, moving from Heroku to EC2, and startup analytics.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Clearbit's Approach to Management4 people · 7 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 2Show HN: Free Company Logo API3 people · 525 points · first shared 2015 · 152 comments on HN
- 3Clearbit raises $15M Series A at $250M valuation3 people · 8 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 4Show HN: Free Company Autocomplete API2 people · 53 points · first shared 2015 · 25 comments on HN
- 5San Francisco is worth the rent2 people · 7 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 6Docker and CoreOS at Clearbit2 people · 4 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 7Our Stock Option pledge1 people · 200 points · first shared 2016 · 34 comments on HN
- 8Announcing Clearbit Connect1 people · 75 points · first shared 2016 · 16 comments on HN
- 9Using free products for lead generation1 people · 73 points · first shared 2016 · 8 comments on HN
- 10Clearbit Open Graph Logo Spec1 people · 17 points · first shared 2015 · 10 comments on HN
- 11The Clearbit Reveal Loop explained1 people · 3 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 12How Clearbit built the Risk API and stopped spammy sign-ups1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 13Clearbit Prospector (scrapes domains for leads)1 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 14Clearbit combines their B2B data with your startups' customer data1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 15Clearbit Sheets1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
wc- · 2016-09-09
If you are just using heroku to run a process it is pretty easy to rebuild on AWS. Here is one fairly solid guide: http://blog.clearbit.com/ec2-heroku/
Depending on what language you are using google's app engine could be a quick replacement.
http://rogerstringer.com/2015/05/13/make-your-own-heroku/
https://github.com/buttfoundry-community/bosh-buttfoundry/blob/master/…
Another HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4183634
I'm not a big fan of docker for a few irrelevant reasons but using it w/ heroku makes it very easy to migrate to other container hosts.
edit: the founder of Flynn replied to parent as well, that is also a great alternative that I forgot to include.
harlow · 2015-08-07
Great question. We have loads of Sinatra services running on CoreOS (using Fleet and Git for deploys) http://blog.clearbit.com/servers-part-one. From there we have a contrib Gem to share middleware between the services. These middlewares handle Auth, Rate limiting, CORS, etc.
scapecast · 2017-10-04
three worthwhile reads on that topic:
- https://blog.fishtownanalytics.com/what-are-the-steps-tools-in-setting…
- http://blog.clearbit.com/enterprise-grade-analytics-for-startups-2/
- https://www.simple.com/engineering/building-analytics-at-simple
Three choices for your data warehouse:
- Amazon Redshift
- Google BigQuery
- Snowflake
Redshift is by far the dominating product in this market. I'd say they have around 60-70% market share. It also has the richest ecosystem of ETL and BI tools. We saw Google BigQuery coming in aggressively earlier this year, but now I'd say the major competitor that keeps coming up is Snowflake. I hear people are happy with Snwoflake and BigQuery. The major FUD you'll hear Google and Snowflake spread about Redshift is that it's (1) expensive because compute & storage are bundled and (2) that it doesn't scale. Both statements are false.
Then you also have a choice of fully managed offerings like:
- holistics.io
- panoply.io
I only learned about holistics.io in this thread. I have to say that I really like their value proposition and features.
For your ETL - I have a whole spreadsheet full of tools that I'm happy to share with you. You will have two major use cases, one to get your production data into your dw, another one to unify it with all your SaaS data.
with intermix.io we've built a performance analytics service for Amazon Redshift. And so we see all the different ETL tools…
rogerkirkness · 2019-08-20
Clearbit Autocomplete API: https://blog.clearbit.com/company-autocomplete-api/
nathancahill · 2016-07-14
How does it compare to Clearbit's? http://blog.clearbit.com/slack-notifier/
Seems to have a little less information from the gif.
GFischer · 2015-10-01
There was a logos-as-a-service featured some time ago.
Maybe you can use this one?
https://blog.clearbit.com/logo
I've been very positively impressed by Clearbit, though I haven't used them as a customer yet.
rgbrgb · 2015-08-12
You can use the search box to find your company if it's marked on google maps. It'll try to pull an image too using the Clearbit company logo API [0].
The list is crudely sorted by number of page views so it'll tend to just show the big companies.
[0]: http://blog.clearbit.com/logo