Crustdata

Realtime company and people search APIs for AI agents.

Build your AI agents for sales, recruiting and investment in seconds with APIs trusted by 300+ companies

[Crustdata @crustdata]

We just launched our new Web Search API on Product Hunt today

The fastest and most accurate way for AI agents to search the entire web and get structured, production ready data back.

This was by far our most requested feature. It took months of work to build and get right.

Combined with our People and Company APIs, agents can now find real answers across news, social posts, research papers, open source content, blogs, and live websites and use that information immediately.

If you are building AI agents for sales, recruiting, investment, insurance, research, or internal automation, this is a foundational layer.

[Abhilash Chowdhary @TheChowdhary]

Today we are launching something BIG!

The most accurate and fastest web search APIs for AI agents

Something which took us months to build

Something so powerful that it lets your AI agent to go from "guessing" -> "doing"

Combined with our powerful people and company APIs, your AI agent can now find actionable answer to any question and finally act with confidence

Whether you are building an AI agent in sales, recruitment, investment, insurance or just adding small automation which needs access to web data in structured manner, this is for you.

Live on Producthunt now! Do upvote and support (link in comments)

[Crustdata @crustdata]

@chrispisarski https://t.co/UrdHEcJcv9

[Crustdata @crustdata]

@bizdevelo @TheChowdhary Hey @bizdevelo - thanks for flagging! Our team is looking into this.

Meanwhile, here is the link to our Demopage: https://t.co/UrdHEcJcv9

[Crustdata @crustdata]

@simao_etc @TheChowdhary This is really cool 👀

a niched and well-designed UI on top of great data absolutely beats "just use Claude"

Let's partner up and make this workflow easier for everyone to run?

[Crustdata @crustdata]

@Super_PK_ @TheChowdhary Awesome to hear @Super_PK_! We'd love to get you set up with the Crustdata MCP so you can match with the right investors the same way Tails matches dogs with the right walker 🐾

Here's the link: https://t.co/jc3Y8eG3FQ - excited to hear how the roadshow goes ;)

[Crustdata @crustdata]

@chayprabs @TheChowdhary Hey Chaitanya - you just got a DM with all the details to get you set up 🙌

[Crustdata @crustdata]

And that's a wrap on Day 3 at SaaStr! 👋

Thanks to everyone who stopped by at the @Crustdata booth!

We are already excited for next year👀

[Chris Pisarski @chrispisarski]

Daniel used Nutella jars to book sales demos

Daniel is one of our first hires at @Crustdata, but before that, he was a former YC founder himself

it was 2015, he was competing with Lyft, Andreessen and Google for the same eyeballs at the Columbia fair

he couldn't afford to spend what these companies were spending

so he bought a bunch of Nutella jars instead and made an event out of his booth:

snap a pic in front of them and share it, and you get a free Nutella jar at the end of the night

his booth was always crowded, people were laughing, and they were having great conversations with everyone because of it

one of the best hires he ever made came from that event, alongside with countless demos and leads

if you are a startup, you have a responsibility to think creatively

find new ways to get discovered and get your name out there, you can't compete with big companies using the same methods

you need to find your own way that costs 10x less but has the same impact

and if that means using the Nutella jar method, so be it

[Mitul Garg @mitul_garg_]

Was an intense 6 hours at the ContextCon hackathon hosted by
@crustdata x @ycombinator !

We built a co-founder finder+relationship builder based on personality context agent using Crustdata's APIs!

Good conversations with @TheChowdhary ! He even gave us access to unpublished APIs to help our specific usecase!

#contextcon #bengaluru #ycombinator

[Shine Gupta @shine_gupta17]

At the ContextCon hack by @crustdata 🤝
LFG

[ranjeet wadkar @runjeetw]

Got in at ContextCon by @crustdata & @ycombinator.

had a really fun time building. thank you @ajaysuwalka97, nithish & manmohit! for the opportunity!!

marks the last event for me in BLR!

[Crustdata @crustdata]

@OwaishBhada @TheChowdhary It is!

[Crustdata @crustdata]

@TheChowdhary We just launched our Self-serve Playground!

Get your API key with 100 free credits here: https://t.co/VAFJi4OJ3r

[Crustdata @crustdata]

@chrispisarski If you want to try out the Crustdata MCP yourself:

We just launched our playground!

Self-serve with 100 free credits:
https://t.co/wl1IfA1eNm

[Abhilash Chowdhary @TheChowdhary]

This is historic: Don’t fly home after YC India Startup School!

We’re excited to announce that Crustdata has partnered with Y Combinator to help bring the next generation of Indian founders one step closer to YC

Together, we’re hosting the first-ever YC hackathon in Bangalore that will offer YC office hours to the winners: ContextCon, on April 19

And it’s none other than legendary YC Partner Jon Xu who will be meeting the winners. Jon is a YC Partner and the co-founder of FutureAdvisor. He has advised hundreds of companies on how to go from a hack to a billion-dollar exit

You will get 6 hours to build a product powered by Crustdata’s APIs that must be demo-able by the end of the day. The top 3 winners will get guaranteed office hours to talk about their idea, product, or startup, something usually only YC startups have access to, plus prizes worth $20k

Sign up link in comments!

[Crustdata @crustdata]

Claude just hit 600M monthly visitors for the first time ever

+111% in a single month

Anthropic's consumer push is working

[Crustdata @crustdata]

GitHub Copilot will train on your code by default starting April 24 - and vibe coding might be one of the reasons.

Despite this growth, the monthly web traffic has remained relatively flat, mostly in the ~480M to ~540M range.

So it seems pretty clear that most of this growth is not coming from a large wave of new users.

It is much more likely coming from the same users generating significantly more activity than before.

Which raises an important question:

How long can GitHub sustain this?

[Crustdata @crustdata]

We analyzed all 656 of OpenAI’s current job listings to understand where their focus is and why they decided to acquire TBPN

Here’s what we found:

→ Only 30 of 656 roles are in Research

→ ~150 are in Go-To-Market, more than Research, Security, and Data Science combined

→ ~100 are Palantir-style Forward Deployed Engineers. Anthropic surpassed them in enterprise market share. This is their answer

→ 18 roles are dedicated to ads. They hit $100M in ad revenue within 6 weeks of the pilot

→ 20 roles are in health and life sciences. Drug discovery, FDA submissions, clinical docs

→ 41 roles are for the Jony Ive hardware device

[Crustdata @crustdata]

The entire xAI founding team is now gone - only Elon remains

Using the realtime Crustdata People Search API, we created a full timeline of all the co-founders who left:

1) Kyle Kosic - Apr 2024
2) Christian Szegedy - Feb 2025
3) Igor Babuschkin - Jul 2025
4) Greg Yang - Jan 2026
5) Tony Wu - Feb 2026
6) Jimmy Ba - Feb 2026
7) Toby Pohlen - Mar 2026
8) Guodong Zhang - Mar 2026
9) Manuel Kroiss - Mar 2026
10) Ross Nordeen - Mar 2026
11) Zihang Dai - Mar 2026

[Crustdata @crustdata]

Now the question… when is Replit going to ship this natively?👀@samuel_spitz

[Crustdata @crustdata]

Replit's AI recruiter just got 20x faster and more accurate

Using the Crustdata real-time API, recruiters can now analyze everyone a company hired in the last 3 months:

hiring patterns, team structure and where top talent is coming from

And moree - you can now get results in seconds for any person you are looking for:

"Find me backend engineers with Rust experience, at least 10 repos, who worked at a Series A company for 8+ months"

"Find me ex-FAANG product managers who moved to startups in the last 12 months and could fill a Head of Product role"

"Find me staff-level ML engineers with LLM experience who recently left Big Tech and are now at companies with <200 employees"

"Find me top-performing SDRs hired in the last 90 days at high-growth SaaS companies in London with a new VP Sales"

Everything possible with Replit + Crustdata APIs

[Samuel Spitz @samuel_spitz]

Introducing Replit AI Recruiter:

-Find targeted candidates in minutes
-Get LinkedIn searches tailored to your role
-Custom email/LinkedIn copy designed to convert