Steven Goh | CEO

In this first chapter of the "Ultimate Guide to the Professional Social Network API" series, my goal is to get your product integrated with Professional...

In this post, we're going to answer a StackOverflow question. You can still [view the original question on...

No, Proxycurl's Professional Social Network API only scrapes public Professional Social Network profiles. Contact information of profiles are not present on...

I'm happy to share that the team behind Proxycurl is launching Accountgram today! Accountgram is a digital B2B debt collection service with a 32.5% success...

As the CEO of Accountgram, a B2B debt collection specialist with 92 collections under my belt since June 2024, I want to provide you with a no-nonsense...

Our double opt-in process guarantees complete transparency before you commit to the 12-month subscription. With this step, we're assured that you understand...

Learn all about the Professional Social Network API, with comprehensive Python code demos. Dive into the world of Professional Social Network APIs, official and third-party alternatives, and understand how to access and utilize Professional Social Network profile data through Python code examples.

We've heard this product feature request a few times, and we're glad to launch this! It'll give more data quality to your workflows using our API endpoints. To fresh data!

My marketing team and I are attending the Ahrefs Evolve 2024 conference in 2 days time. My objective (as the CEO of the company) in attending this...

We added a new feature to the Employee Count Endpoint: the `at_date` parameter, which will fetch historical employee count data of any company. Check out our docs.

We get it - flexibility is key when it comes to managing your subscription. Whether you're looking to upgrade, downgrade, or even cancel your plan, we've...

Do you have a budget of $1.99 for testing the service? If so, are you able to head over to the dashboard and make a top-up? $1.99 will yield you 100...

In the heels of our recent announcement of the all-new Customer API, I am happy to share that we will now return fresh profile data for Facebook or...

I am pleased to announce that the Customer API is now available in production on Proxycurl. The Customer API enables you to retrieve a list of customers and...

We have to update our free API offerings due to bad actors abusing our free API offerings. As you already know, we have always offered a suite of free API...

There is a good chance you already know the Boolean search syntax if you're good at googling because a large of advance search expressions are in fact a...

We take the iteration process very seriously at Proxycurl. After months of development, we have revamped the Search API and this update for the new Search...

Proxycurl's Employee Listing Endpoint and the Search API are powered by LinkDB. This means that searches are performed within LinkDB. We do not scrape...

In this new year, we're fully committing to our long-term customers with the introduction of a new subscription plans. These changes reflect our growth as a...

We often receive inquiries about enabling CORS headers to allow any origin to access the Proxycurl API. However, our policy is to deliberately block...

We have three similar API endpoints that seem to perform the same function—these are the Employee Search Endpoint, the Person Search Endpoint, and the Role...

Hello and welcome to our end-of-August changelog! We've added a new feature to our Person Profile Endpoint - the ability to look anyone up by new methods....

Proxycurl's August 2023 updates are here! Featuring a new endpoint, improvements to existing endpoints, and LinkDB public pricing! Plus a brand-new product...

So, you want to search for people on Professional Social Network. In this article, I will show you step-by-step multiple ways to find a specific person or a broad list of people.

Proxycurl API In general, we will refund you if you accidentally purchase credits and spend at most 10 of them. Refunds are granted once per customer. There...

Have you ever wanted to integrate Proxycurl's APIs into your spreadsheet data? Or maybe you don't code - you prefer working within Google Sheets using...

There is not a maximum length for individual parameters of a search query; rather, your entire query must be at most 4094 characters.

1. Our Employee/Student Listing API endpoint relies on LinkDB, a database that exclusively gathers public Professional Social Network profiles....

We've added API logs to your Proxycurl Dashboard, giving you the power to better understand and debug your use of Proxycurl. The number of logs you gain...

The Reverse Work Email Lookup API endpoint is a search function designed to return the closest match. However, the Reverse Email Lookup can sometimes return...

The Reverse Work Email Lookup API endpoint is a search function designed to return the closest match. However, the Reverse Email Lookup can sometimes return...

Happy Easter everyone! While children enjoy their candy, you can look forward to new features this week. Introducing sort_by Parameter in the Employee...

Please be advised that the Reveal API will be deprecated on the 1st of May 2023, at 11am Singapore Time (SGT). After a thorough analysis, we have decided to...

Fetch the historic employee count of any target company. Megan wrote an excellent piece on extracting and analyzing the historic employee count of any...

When we mention lead generation, the single department that most closely-relates or uses lead generation most is sales and marketing. Lead generation is a...

Building a startup is one of the most challenging things to do in life. For bootstrappers, you need to find leads, find users quickly, or risk the venture...

Dear you, Happy Valentine's day, and here's our valentine to you! In this week's changelog series, I have a special gift worth $11326.67 for all our VC...

From a life of corporate toiling to startup stardom, droves of ex-Googlers have turned their talents to the startup world. The result? A collective $15...

This week, we dropped an update with some changes you might like. I will also be sending these "changelog" updates a bit more frequently so you can keep...

You got a new product and need a hack to get it into the market. This hack costs $124, and it Proxycurl to a million dollars in annual revenue. This is my...

At Proxycurl, we pride ourselves with the many data enrichment APIs that we offer to our clients to power their applications. Not just the sheer number of...

Proxycurl is almost three years old, and we are marching towards 5 million (USD) in annual recurring revenue (ARR). In this post, I will tell you exactly...

What do you think of when you first hear "early-stage" startup? A startup with an idea? An MVP? Some revenue, maybe? The answer is, it depends. For...

To connect and address the needs of an audience, a speaker must know her audience - who they are and what they do. The same applies to any serious business....

Developing a thorough Go-to-market (GTM) strategy is essential for launching a product into a market, it can be a new product in an existing market, an...

As businesses look for accurate and up-to-date information to fuel their growth, B2B data providers are becoming increasingly important. These providers...

Dear hiring managers, one of the important roles you might have is hiring, to identify and recruit top talent for your organization. However, we all know...

B2B contact databases are essential resources for any business. They provide comprehensive, up-to-date information on customers, allowing businesses to...

✏️In early 2024, we've implemented further updates to our pricing plans, notably the introduction of Annual Plans - which have cheaper and more credits....

Businesses on a regular basis generate and work with customers' or companies' profiles to achieve their end goals. For any business, the customer base...

If you tend to keep up with the tech or finance ecosystem, you've probably come across the term, FAANG. But have you ever wondered what it stands for? Or...

Professional Social Network Recruiter is a great tool that helps companies and recruitment agencies find and hire the best candidates for their job...

As you would already know, Professional Social Network is a popular social media platform for professionals and businesses. It has tons and tons of valuable...

Identifying your customers' needs and providing an experience personalized for each customer is one of the most effective ways to achieve customer success...

The geo_id parameter in the Job Listing API and Job Listing Count API represents the ID that Professional Social Network prescribes to a region. This...

When you hear the word "Startups," what comes to mind? Most likely, new companies with shiny new ideas for products or services and making the front pages...

Every business will always have a need for lead generation. Lead generation is one primary strategy to hit your revenue target regularly. Apart from...

Zoominfo is great, but it's not for everyone. Find 35 best alternatives to Zoominfo in 2025. 1) Proxycurl 2) Clearbit 3) Professional Social Network Sales Navigator 4) Crunchbase Pro

Hi! I am happy to share that we just went live with a huge update to the Jobs API. In this update, you can now filter jobs by: * Job flexibility (remote or...

Today, data and information have become crucial to the success of modern businesses. To retrieve information, companies must turn to many different data...

Hiring new talents for your team or organization can be tedious and overwhelming. It requires going through hundreds of applications for weeks to find the...

The importance of data in today’s world cannot be over-emphasized, every piece of information or transaction is data. It is a valuable asset because of how...

We have a new API endpoint released today. I am happy to introduce the new Student Listing API Endpoint. The Student Listing API endpoint: * takes a...

Often today's companies rely on accurate business analytics to reduce the cost of operations and maximize profits. One of the drivers behind this is the...

This week, we're happy to come to you with updates on a new API endpoint and further refinements to the Proxycurl API. Introducing Employee Search API...

In this article, we'll talk about how you can obtain more data from an email address. Examples of data from an email include contact information about a...

In recent years, there has been a considerable amount of buzz on alternative data in the investment & finance industries, and there is a good reason for...

We will be restructuring Proxycurl, the product, under Proxycurl LLC, a US-based holding company, in the coming weeks. The restructuring exercise is an...

Table of contents * Introduction * What's Proxycurl API * Why you should use Proxycurl API * Getting Started * Prerequisites * Getting Your API Key *...

Don't let the naysayers get to you and tell you this is the era of GPT3 and Cryptocurrency. I will argue that we are in a new age of big data-driven...

Table of contents * Introduction * Getting Started * Prerequisites * How to get B2B emails with Work Email Lookup API Endpoint * How to get personal emails...

This bug has now been fixed! You should always get consistent results when using the Lookup endpoints in the same way. Note that changing the value of...

You might get an erroneous HTTP status code of 503 when you call our API occasionally. This is due to a temporary error. There are many reasons for this: *...

Nubela CCPA Policy - June 28th, 2022 This CCPA Policy is incorporated by reference into the Proxycurl Privacy Policy, and applies only to California...

Is Proxycurl Compliant with GDPR? On May 25, 2018, The European Union began enforcing EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)...

There will always be bugs with Proxycurl API, so sometimes, the API might not be behaving in a way that is predictable for you. You might want to find out...

Proxycurl Bright Data's Professional Social Network Scraper API rate limit of 300 requests/minute; or 432,000 profiles / day). Rate limit can be increased...

This post applies to the following API endpoints: * Company Lookup Endpoint * Role Lookup Endpoint * Person Lookup Endpoint * Work Email Lookup Endpoint...

Updates (so far) * As of 17th May 2022, 6.22PM SGT, we pushed out an update that should bring Person Profile Endpoint back to normalcy. * As of 19th May...

For people profiles, our Person Profile API offers the following: * articles - Articles posted by the user * activities - see the Activity response section...

We have received feedback that the Employee Listing Endpoint leans towards being a little obtuse in how it can be used to solve problems. For example, the...

Proxycurl API returns profiles of varying levels of freshness. * Profiles that are less than 29 days old. * Use use_cache=if-recent parameter to enable...

Our Person Profile Endpoint scrapes public Professional Social Network profiles only. And if a user does not share their profile picture publicly, then the...

Let's start by looking at this snippet of an email from a customer looking to acquire LinkDB Snapshots from us: Hello Steven, I'm back to revisiting this...

Proxycurl API fetches data from public Professional Social Network profiles only. The side effect of public Professional Social Network profiles is that it...

I am happy to share that we added 1.5M New Zealand public Professional Social Network profiles to LinkDB. With this update, New Zealand is now an officially...

Proxycurl's Person Profile API Endpoint works with Professional Social Network profiles of any country, as long as the profile is public. Public...

Organizations and individuals have several reasons to retrieve Professional Social Network profile data. While pulling profile data may seem nefarious, it...

In a nutshell, Public Professional Social Network profiles are profiles that any individual can view without being logged into Professional Social Network....

As the chief customer support officer of Proxycurl, I have been receiving emails seeking clarifications on our service reliability from customers who swing...

Professional Social Network sued Mantheos, a real-time Professional Social Network Scraping API service, on 1st February 2022 for fraudulently scraping...

I am happy to share that we just added 1.5M Irish profiles to LinkDB. With this update, Ireland is now an officially supported region in Proxycurl's suite...

I am happy to share that we just added 6.3M Australian profiles to LinkDB. With this update, Australia is now an officially supported region in Proxycurl's...

More often or not, Proxycurl is not the bottleneck for your application. On a regular account, every account has a rate limit of 300 requests every minute....

I am happy to share that we just added 15+M UK profiles to LinkDB. With this update, United Kingdom is now an officially supported region in Proxycurl's...

Yes, we do for people profiles, with caveats. The articles and activities values in our [Person Profile...

There are only three ways to get a list of employees of any company. The goal of this article is to guide you to a fool-proof method to build a list of...

Hello! We are constantly adding data sources other than Professional Social Network into Proxycurl API, such as the data powering our Contact API. Happy to...

The short answer is -- as stable as Professional Social Network lets us be. It is a constant cat-and-mouse game with Professional Social Network. Given that...

Proxycurl's Lookup Search endpoint takes in a company_name and the role you want to reach out to, and bam. It returns you the Professional Social Network profile URL of the person of interest.

In one of my sales outreach, I spoke to a customer who challenged me: We use LinkedHelper and I'm an expert. So I'm not sure what your service would add....

Today, it's personal phone numbers. So we are live with a new API endpoint today -- Personal Contact Number Lookup API endpoint.

I'm happy to share that we have a new Personal Email Lookup API endpoint, which is live right now in production.

I will take you through the various techniques to make a Professional Social Network Company Search. These techniques range from straightforward to advanced, depending on what your needs are.

The customer support staff at Proxycurl can help you change your email address. However, it is not a direct change. What we can do is to transfer credits...

No, Proxycurl is not able to fetch connections of users for two reasons..

I am happy to share that we just added 8.7+ Israeli profiles to LinkDB. With this, Israel is now an officially supported region in Proxycurl's suite of services.

I am happy to share that we just added 8.7+ Canadian profiles to LinkDB. With this, Canada is now an officially supported region in Proxycurl's suite of...

We updated the API today with a new 503 error status code. Context -- there are two reasons why you will get an error with the status code of 429. And it...

There are two reasons why it happens in our Person Profile API Endpoint: 1. The interpretation of first and last names might vary between people. For...

In this article, I will exhaustively list down all possible methods you can use to lookup email addresses, personal or work, for anyone on the internet.

Yes we do! You can use the Company Search Endpoint & Person Search Endpoint.

Proxycurl scrapes public Professional Social Network profiles in real-time and on-demand. Web scraping takes time, and on average. Every API Request...

When we scrape a public Professional Social Network profile for example with our Person Profile API, we are served with a temporary CDN URL by Professional...

Hello, For a few months now, Postgresql has been a performance bottleneck for us as we pushed past 1B rows of data. Today, we performed a smooth and...

LinkDB is updated with every real-time (API) request to scrape a Professional Social Network profile. Essentially, this methodology keeps data on LinkDB...

Proxycurl is a pay-as-you-go service. Credits cost US$0.01 / credit. Credit cost varies with API endpoints. You can check out the API documentation...

Your Professional Social Network Public Profile is a profile of you shown to any user browsing your profile without being logged into . If you are on...

Get 10,000 credits every month. Here is how.

How to get a list of all employees with Proxycurl's Employee Listing API Endpoint?

What is Proxycurl? Proxycurl is an API to scrape Professional Social Network profiles at scale. Proxycurl’s Professional Social Network API can scrape 1...

We only scrape public profiles, and it turns out that Skills data is not a part of public profiles. We can only return what we can scrape, as such we do not...

Proxycurl only scrapes public Professional Social Network profiles. Sometimes, the privacy settings of a profile keep certain portions of a private profile...

Our API succeeds 90+% of the time. It turns out that our scraping infrastructure is limited and inconsistent because we are dealing with external targets...

Proxycurl only scrapes public Professional Social Network profiles. Some Professional Social Network profiles do not have public profiles (due to privacy...

No, we are not able to resolve Sales Navigator URLs into regular profile URLs. As such, we are not able to scrape Sales Navigator URLs. The reason is that...

Clearbit Connect I was so amazed when Clearbit Connect launched. It was a game-changing product. No other products existed then that made it so easy to find...

Since we launched LinkDB, we have received a barrage of requests for a company profile dataset. We understand that pairing people with companies will help...

There is a certain power in owning things, particularly things that power the guts of your business's product. It is why we self-host GitLab, amongst a ton...

I am happy to share that we performed an exhaustive crawl of all public Professional Social Network Company Profiles, and we have added 17M global companies...

Last week, we push out an update to the Company Profile API. In this update: * We updated the endpoint to return 404 status code when a request is made to...

A few weeks ago, a student at the University of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) contacted me. The student represented a group of...

I am very happy to share that we are scraping more fields in our Person Profile Endpoint in our Professional Social Network API. These fields are: 1....

In a blog post I written, I shared how I got a list of companies seeking to hire software engineers. The crux of the data scraping exercise was our Job...

Proxycurl API People Profile endpoint crawls public Professional Social Network Profiles. Not all Professional Social Network profiles, even if valid, have...

Problem I got on a call with the CEO of a company that helps businesses recruit tech talents. Let's call this company TechTalentRecruitment. The perfect...

So you are trying to scrape Professional Social Network profiles in bulk. The chances are that you are crawling the public profiles with a proxy (in a very...

I want to close bigger deals by reaching decision-makers directly I am the founder of Nubela. I lead sales for Proxycurl, and I do this alone. So it is...

We deployed three changes today to Proxycurl. 1. We have improved the Person Lookup endpoint from 30% accuracy to 89% accuracy. 2. We added a new endpoint...

Steven, the Professional Social Network API you guys offer is excellent. But how do I begin to use the API if I do not even have the profiles? I get this...

Having built the early prototype for [Proxycurl API](https://nubela.co/proxycurl/Professional Social Network) which turns Professional Social Network...

We launched an update to Proxycurl today, and it includes two new endpoints for Professional Social Network Jobs. The first endpoint is the Job Profile API...

We went live with V2 of our [Professional Social Network People Profile API](https://nubela.co/proxycurl/Professional Social Network) yesterday. V2 is an...

Proxycurl API is a developer's tool. And the chances are that if you can code, you will have no problem scraping a website, unless it is Professional Social...

Automation, especially in digital marketing, has become an important progress feature. It can greatly reduce the time spent on menial work so that you can...

Professional Social Network is the most popular social media platform for people to meet one another in a professional setting. I recommend you to read our...

With Proxycurl API, you can enrich Professional Social Network Profiles at one cent per profile, at scale. Since we introduced Proxycurl, the feedback has...

* Steven: I have something new to share * You: What is it? * Steven: I want to tell you that if you are bored in the wee hours, you can come to SharedHere...

Are you like me and you post on EDMW Hardwarezone forums, and end up spamming the refresh button in pursuit of validation for someone to quote/respond to...

The cadence of delivery. Last month, I dismissed the employment of a software developer who oversold himself during the interview phase. He turned out to be...

We learned drown-proofing as a trainee in the Naval Diving Unit. Throughout the training, we were drilled to remember three words - Stop; think; breathe....

The title is apt in these times. I experienced a database corruption, and I can't seem to find the backup for it. I can fix it by starting anew again, but...

In this series, I will begin writing my thoughts on startup news in Singapore/Asia. Here are the news today! With fresh funding, Snapask expands tech-driven...

I just had the revenue carpet that I stood on, pulled out under me. It is sudden, but not unexpected. I started feeling exasperated, but over the evening,...

Walk down Chinatown, and you will see a row of shophouses that says OCBC. OCBC owns them. Major business owners, with some foresight, made their wealth when...

ShareDong is SharedHere for Indonesia. In Indonesian, it is a casual way of asking for a link. I would approximate it to the English phrase to "share the...

I tried sharing some news on Facebook today, and I got blocked from posting in other groups. I had figured that I needed a better growth engine instead of...

With a clear and discrete objective for SharedHere of 66k views per day, I am working hard to achieve a 10% day on day growth on pageviews. The first week...

Let's start with something I got wrong in my last post. I mentioned that my efforts in growth hacking led to 1000 views. I was wrong. It was a 1000 unique...

The difference between fifteen minutes of sleep and getting one last piece of todo item checked amounted to 1000 views for SharedHere.com. Yesterday, I...

Which works out to be 2 million views per month if you do the math. A figure I believe will bring SharedHere to profitability. It is day two since launch,...

Premium content, previously guarded by paywalls, is now readily available on SharedHere.com [sharedhere.com]. These include premium articles from Straits...

I had lunch with my CEO friend, who runs Ubersnap. I'm helping him to take the business into Indonesia, and Ubersnap Indonesia is up against Holograil....

I have been trying to grow high end ridiculously expensive hei bi (Cantonese for shrimps) for almost a year now. These shrimps that are no larger than 0.7cm...

Something devastating happened to me lately. I conformed. Fuck. I admit that some Facebook comments that were posted on my posts got to me. The commotion on...

The Chinese market opened today with a sharp -9.6% tear with no thanks to Wuhan's Coronavirus. The coronavirus is a disaster through and through. Just last...

The problem with the author-reader relationship is the implied authoritarian role. The writer as the expert, and the reader as the student. I will like to...

When I was younger and naive, I believed that companies should have a flat hierarchy [https://nubela.co/blog/the-chinaman-i-hired-that-sneered-heckled-and-mo...

In 2011, I left Singapore for Sweden for an overseas exchange and internship programme. And in my short year there, I found Sweden to be a homogeneous and...

I was reading the comments on this Reddit thread [https://old.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/es5sab/sporean_tweets_about_people_glorifying_ot_life/] on the...

It is a funny sight when tech-illiterate CEOs attempt to build tech companies. They thump the beat by appending or prepending buzzwords in their elevator...

My company is a place of pleasant surprises for great employees. The bad hires relish with equal glee. Right after the first week, the poor hires must count...

I have had my heads (and fingers) down writing all day, all night in the past few days. The reason why you have not seen my recent posts is that the words...

Hey, I started a post with a non-clickbait title that sounds more sophisticated than it should. But guess what, I am betting that the usual trolls are not...

A senior engineer in the Bay Area makes US$400+k annually. And yes, I think my experience and products would seat me in that tier of engineers. I am...

First things first, this is not a guide for murder. This post is a guide on how you can stay covert in Singapore. Specifically, a guide to good OPSEC...

Startup porn dictates that you should just build the product [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21934358], and that blogging is the best form of...

I was reading Hacker News today and came across a thread to predict future trends. One prediction was the advent of biohacking — bio-hacking beginner kits...

This story does not have a good ending. So it's day 0 at work, and I was supposed to have three new staff to onboard. The first one got the starting date...

I spent the entire year writing about 2019. On the second last day of the year, I have my eyes set on 2020. So, how will 2020 be different from 2020? A...

Right after I graduated, I contemplated a move to Silicon Valley, and I would if public transport was like Europe's; if the homeless situation was like...

I have a serious crush on Nancy Pelosi. No, it is not because she impeached Trump. Because honestly I am impressed at how far Trump has come. But this post...

Specifically, doing nothing. I finished my tasks for the year last week, so I tried to do nothing over the pre-Christmas weekend. I failed catastrophically....

As a hypochondriac with self-diagnosed ADHD syndrome, I manage my restlessness with videos playing in the background. Having something (useless) in the...

Where N is usually three. Given 3, pick 2. This is a classic dilemma of compromise. That neither you nor I can have our cake and eat it at the same time....

How do you know someone does CrossFit? He will tell you. Anyways, as I was doing CrossFit today, I thought about how my workouts are manageable now in...

Some topics, such as religion and politics, are better kept within the confines of heated in-person arguments. But if you notice, the products I have built...

A European telco wanted to work with us to bring Sapiengraph to fruition. The CEO found us when the CEO read our post titled "Open-sourcing Sapiengraph CCTV...

I do not try to go out of my way to make work fun for my staff. So it makes my day when I receive random messages like these: > sorry, but fuck I'm so...

Met a buddy for lunch today, and we have been great pals. So a few weeks ago, when he asked if I could help him expand his business to Indonesia, I said yes...

I consider myself a creative. Better yet, I consider entrepreneurship a creative endeavor because, more often or not; breakthroughs occur when a business...

I have written a few posts on giving up. Here, I wrote a story about a friend who found success through perseverance...

I read a well-written post [elijames.org/the-two-tiers-of-singapores-tech-companies/?fbclid=IwAR2Dk4aRf0U7GVCTDS-OAfOLN0vqsVi1zowRX8gs8UWBLom9e0v8cXQMejA]...

I used to console myself that the journey is all that matters. Bullshit. The only thing that matters is the result. Sure, the journey can be memorable, but...

If you failed an interview at Nubela, it is because you were unable to deliver a WIIFY. Our recent product Sapiengraph...

Adam Neumann of WeWork was the largest advocate for "optionality." A term he coined to describe the availability of options. For example, if Softbank did...

Nobody is obligated to work for me (or you). It is not even about money. Poor culture fit; poor performances; there is a multitude of reasons for anyone to...

I find holidays annoying because flights are intolerable, and being always on the move is exhausting. But because it is jam-packed with touristy activities,...

Because I want to build a company that someone like myself will be proud and happy to work. This is the dull reason I give when people ask why I started a...

Warning: This is a technical post. We decided to adopt Kubernetes as the company doubles down on container-based deployment. I am probably the last...

> Warning, this is a technical post. I have been busy in the past two days picking up Kubernetes and boy this new technology will need a third day for me to...

Ba-boom, ba-boom. A relentless beat in life to remind you to tone the fuck down. I hear it constantly, and I find it impossible to get it to stop. Against...

I had to study hard and get to a university because my mother said so. I had to tuck in my clothes in school because those were the school rules. Never do...

I received a private message on Reddit today by a guy who asked if I know anything about another redditor that I replied to on Reddit. I do not recall the...

You might have come across this "GIF" printing photo booth if you have attended corporate events or weddings. The chances are that you just used Ubersnap's...

Building a product is not the same as playing chess. An egomaniac tried to impress upon me that I should be like him, to engage my brain before diving...

The Singapore government just banned e-scooters on all footpaths. This stacks on top of the existing e-scooter road ban. The regulation was announced and...

Last night, I caught a fever from a mild store throat, so I went to bed an hour earlier. Last month I caught a cold as well, so I took a flu shot right...

A few weeks ago, I spent $150 on 50 Pure Red Line (PRL) shrimps. These are the purest breed of what is a high-end shrimp for my aquarium hobby. They all...

I have been writing code, designing interfaces, and exploring Unix tools in the last two and a half weeks. I should not be coding. And yet I got my hands...

In one of my earliest articles, I wrote about building a position of continuous survival [__GHOST_URL__/the-bootstrappers-hierarchy-of-needs/]. Looking...

I wonder if it is a false dichotomy between demanding excellence and being liked. Being liked has it's perks and I am envious of those perks because they...

Growing up as a teenager, I consumed American drama exclusively and built friendships with fellow American hackers. Inadvertently, I longed to go to the US...

Straits Times is going bankrupt, so they made a paywall -- Straits Times Premium. Immediately r/Singapore on Reddit built a bot to repost the blockaded...

I was in the worst (performing) class in secondary school. I am not sure how well it does now, but Anglican High was a good school that ranks in the top...

Sometimes, I envy smokers because they always seem so relaxed while smoking. My drug of choice is programming. I am lost in my head when I am in the zone,...

Warning, technical post alert. I have been programming in the last two weeks, and boy do I miss it. We have been using a variant of CoffeeScript, known as...

I spent a significant bit of my teenage life on the internet. I trafficked pirated content that was sold downstream by pirated DVD vendors, otherwise known...

I watched an interview of Quek Siu Rui, CEO of Carousell, on Bloomberg TV. He spoke about being lucky enough to work on a product that he cares about...

Look what I put together today. I have had my fingers busy this week, getting involved in the actual productization process in our next experiment....

My brother is in Dublin, working for the DynamoDB product under Amazon AWS. Before Amazon, he worked for Skyscanner. My brother is quite an engineer with an...

I was pitching right up till I decided to stop working on Sapiengraph. Perfect setup for some awkward emails but it has to be done. This is the email that I...

This is a technical post separated into two parts. One readable, the other not (to most). I will start with an introduction to Sapiengraph CCTV, and how we,...

It is time for the next experiment after Sapiengraph. I have a few ideas, but there are two that I am studying. The first idea is to productize TMP, a task...

I received numerous feedback from people I care about that I might have given up too fast. This is not the first time I have heard of this. So let us...

A while ago, I wrote the specifications for a Trello-based CRM known as ZIC (zero input CRM) and tasked it to an intern. Nevertheless, the product's...

As a boss, I allocate resources in initiatives that will provide a return. Just like how an investor in a venture capital firm would. Instead of financial...

Pornography has painted a world by which women have disproportionally large breasts. With startup porn, we have the same problem with almost everything. I...

Business is people, and humans are irrational. Getting things done in a B2B company is about managing this complex web of inter-human relations. I am going...

I am doing something different this time compared to how I used to build ideate and build products. This time, I am not building anything until I see paying...

It is no secret that I fired my brother shortly after I hired him. And I dismissed him for two reasons. First, he was not a good programmer due to...

Genetically, I gain fast-twitch muscles easily. I am no different at work. I drive large movements in the company. And sometimes we move so fast that I can't help but to look back and force myself to regroup.

The title of this article is a story of a guy that I tried fund-raising from as a doe-eyed fresh grad. A while ago, he low-key flexed that he had bought...

But like most people, I am not connected, loaded, or pedigreed. But I have a brain and a grit.

By success, I mean I made money to support one person (myself). Most entrepreneurs do not even get this far. And what I do is no secret. For every new...

The real world frustrates internet geeks. In the real world, everything seems so much harder. In the real world, the geeks have to put on clothes. The geeks...

Inefficiencies irritate me. Most of the time, inefficiencies exist for a good reason. An economic reason such as cleaners being cheap makes R&D for...

I am what I am. But as time races by and collagen weans itself off my face, I have noticed the few times I cede control, were the few times things worked...

There was a time by which I made a concerted effort to stave off the intake of the news. That is because the primary intent of news reporting is to alarm....

The giant startups that shook up our lives such as Uber and Airbnb did so because they were, by nature, disruptive. But disruption is a nicer way of saying...

Especially so for someone like me who grew up trying hard not to take money from my mother because of tight financial circumstances. In a startup world,...

My investment track record, while limited in variety, has been pretty successful. They would be way more successful when I tune out my emotions. The times I...

I started the Sapiengraph effort by hiring a small sales unit. Historically, I always built the product first then attempt to sell it. The risks are...

In my second meeting with an angel investor, he told me straight up that he is not sure what exactly we are selling.

Last week, I dropped a job specification for our design team to design a demo for our facial recognition demo. The demo does two things with photos: 1. To...

"What is in it for you" - Do not sell. Instead, tell your prospect straight up what he stands to gain.

The origin story of how I decided to build my own company

A designer with a soft pink cap. A programmer with a hair bun. These Indonesians have been growing proportionally in my product team. We speak different...

This post is hard to write because it means I have to come to terms with my autistic tendencies. But if I am honest with myself, blaming it to autism makes...

No, it is not the early onset of Alzheimer's [https://nubela.co/blog/i-have-early-onset-of-alzheimers/]. It was honest to goodness forgetfulness. I am...

Last week marked the start of the fund-raising process. It was a fruitful week, and it has shaped the work ahead of me in the subsequent weeks. This post is...

I am a Singaporean with chutzpah [https://www.yourdictionary.com/chutzpah]. A Jewish term for near-arrogant bravado. As a Singaporean Chinese living in a...

Yesterday, I texted a particular NUS professor seeking an introduction to a specific angel investor. That turned out to be a dud as the professor was not...

So I pitched to a VC today, and I got a same-day response after sending over the deck. > We usually invest at Series A and often write cheques of $2-3mil...

I am from the special forces, not because I served as a Naval Diver, but because my company operates as a small but lethal team. Two years ago, when it was...

This is my favorite question for people (over drinks). I will like to think that the craziest act that you sought out willingly defines who you are as a...

In the last month, I lost : * My car keys. It cost me $900 to replace it, thank you BMW. * Not one, but two Stojo cups. One of it got caught in my car's...

Some things cannot be rushed. I bought a few shrimps for my tank yesterday. And I have been drip acclimatizing them with water from their new home. But...

Two weeks ago, I announced that I was going raise 900,000USD for Sapiengraph. I am raising funds because I believe there is a serious opportunity for (your)...

I have an irrational hatred for bureaucracy. It is probably why I always find bones to pick with the civil service. But bureaucracy is only the symptom....

This is a rewrite of my original post by which I extolled the need for you not to build your business on somebody else's business. Instead, I have rewritten...

My staff and I were debating if Grab falls under our target audience, and she insisted that she had written Grab down previously and I had shot down the...

The new developer in the office encountered a development issue today, and he posted his question on Slack. The CTO stepped in and helped. But the new...

Our office is huge, and I carved out the empty portion of the office which had some empty tables lying around to offset our rent. We have a new tenant...

Nubela is founded by Steven Goh (myself) from the revenue of the company's first product - Gom VPN. I built Gom VPN as a response to MDA"s filter to block...

Today is the last day for 18-year-old Scott at LandX. So I will dedicate my blog post today to celebrate Scott. How we found Scott We found Scott because...

I am not good at fund-raising mostly because I struggle to empathize with investors. The genius of Elon Musk Elon Musk is a helluva entrepreneur. I do not...

Most people do not know how to write great titles. To write a great title, it boils down to "What's in it for you (the reader)?" In this post, I will be...

There are no CRMs out there that is good enough to serve my lazy ass. CRMs require discipline, and if I have to take N minutes of my day to maintain my CRM,...

For far too many times in my career, I have felt a dreaded gloom as I thump away on my keyboard, wondering why my efforts were not translating into actual...

It was a > 10x returns in a few months. But I did not sell it, and I still hold my coins to this day. There lies the problem with me; I do not have an exit...

I am trying to grow shrimps. But the home for these shrimps is a planted tank. And it is not easy building a planted tank in Singapore. First, I need a...

The task to crawl Singaporeans on Professional Social Network was dispatched to a programmer two weeks ago. But up till yesterday, it was not close to being...

We sent out the offer letter for our marketer today, and we are ramping up our marketing efforts for Nubela. Since I started writing daily, I have...

> Warning: There is no point to this post. I am writing down some thoughts that I have been incubating in my head. Grab has maxed out its total addressable...

I received a response from my first CMO applicant today. He wrote a sample blog post which left me with more questions after I read it. I will attach his...

> Hi steven. I think we do not report ___ to the police. Just tell them that we find out he stole the money from us and we forgive him. Putra sent this...

In this article, I am introspecting about my daily blog posts. A link for everything These days, I seem to have a link to explain my thought, which is...

She was an SMU alumni and I wasted $20,000 on her wages over 5 months. She excelled in what SMU trained their students to be -- professional talkers. I...

Mario is my intern for this summer. A shocker on Mario's first day I did not interview Mario as I usually would for interns because he came introduced from...

We carved out 2 weeks to build this because all other CRMs suck. My team and I ain't got no time to manually enter every detail of our customers into the...

But the only thing I automated was insincerity with automated emails. Now that I am back focusing on sales for Nubela, why is is the sales process so...

Our little internal project got a customer without us asking for it. Remember TMP [__GHOST_URL__/we-automated-our-managers-away/]? Right after I shared it,...

It is my opinion that deadlines belong to an undisciplined company. I have no good stories of deadlines Against the backdrop of the Bitcoin bull run of...

Everyone has at least one inner demon, and it is usually an embellishment of one of the seven deadly sins. My inner demon is wrath, and anger is a helluva...

We will wait till Monday when the engineers are in the office. That is what. If you have been in the game long enough like I have, you will learn that it is...

I asked my staff why he stopped taking initiative Once, I asked my staff why he stopped taking the initiative at work. He replied that he learned not to do...

It was not interesting to me at all since I assumed: 1. That the entire world is already doing drop-shipping since the barrier of entry is so low 2. The top...

This is the story of how we found we found out the ages of our users without asking for the information. The Ops team needs demographics data Aldy, the CMO...

I have been using this excuse for the longest time as an excuse to speak my mind without care for the hurt that it might inflict on other parties. Last...

I cannot remember how many times I have told myself that I will find myself a comfortable job after X stint. I do not quit. The more rejections I suffer,...

> He who doesn't take risks, never drinks champagne An old Russian saying, quoted by Vladimir Putin in his Financial Time's interview on Russian...

I almost lost a potential hire today because of a miscommunication between the designer and the business development team during the negotiation process....

I have not felt the flutter of excitement that I used to feel when I automated something menial away. Today I felt that again when my intern, Mario, demoed...

This is the line that I will preface my pitches from here on. People over product I was at the gym today, catching my breath in between sets, and I can't...

There is a sense of permanent strength in CEOs as we stride into the office every day, and I never go to work without this facade of strength. However, not...

It takes 10 hours a day, seven days a week, and two years of computer time to get good at programming. For a bootstrapper, it is that, and everything else....

That is a lie I earnestly believed right after I graduated. The goal was to build a product business that will make me $3000 a month, and that will mean I...

It is late and I am burning the midnight oil fixing a compatibility issue brought about because the platform that the product (which shall not be named) was...

No, It has nothing to do with Slack being the fastest growing startup. No, it has nothing to do with the fact that Slack went from product launch to IPO in...

We don't have to be friends on Facebook, but I can still see hundreds of pictures of you. You do not have to follow me on Instagram, but I can download your...

Hitesh is an acquaintance that I knew from university who bullshit-ed everyone that he is a partner at a venture capital fund -- of his own companies that...

This is a story of a stupid idea. In 2017, my company downsized to just Bach and me after shutting down Kloudsec and we were building SilvrBullet. Because...

Being a programmer is both the biggest bane and boon in my entrepreneurial journey. There ought to be more tutorials on how a programmer should run a...

A few years ago, I worked on a product called Kloudsec [https://giki.wiki/@nubela/Kloudsec]. It is a content distribution network (CDN) not unlike...

Right after I graduated, I had a belief that I have to "love" the company that I work at, "love" my manager, and "love" my job. It didn't help that the only...

Most days at work is straightforward. An email arrives, and it will take me a few minutes to respond. Another minute and a colleague will have a question...

I would not be who I am today if I had listened to what people have preached to be the "right thing". When I was 15, my mom caned me for using the computer...

This is my story of how I lost ownership of Unifide, my second company. I began my entrepreneurial journey in 2015 with Spawt, a Foursquare for Food. Spawt...

With the Bitcoin crash of 2018, NuMoney was at the crossroads. Do we persist with the vision of building the largest cryptocurrency exchange for Southeast...

Paul Graham's definition of a startup is a company designed to grow fast. But I hate startups, where do I begin? Let's start with Crystal Horse Investments...

(She didn't turn out to be the one, this girl in the picture did) Back when I was 15, my delinquent friends and I would go to our favorite mall to "fish"...

(Picture above shows Putra, who is CEO of LandX, and I incorporating the company in Jakarta) I am bad at fund-raising. A backchannel source told me that I...

He came sheepishly to me and told me he corrupted our Postgresql database, what do we do now? Ok, time to backtrack. A while ago, we built Kloudsec, a CDN...

This is a two-part series on crawling Professional Social Network in scale. In this first part, we study why Professional Social Network is a hard target to...

This is a two-part series on crawling Professional Social Network in scale. In an earlier article, we studied why Professional Social Network is a hard...

Nubela (Corp) will be 5 years old this year