Developer builds a Lusha alternative with Claude Code and Apify
10/29/2026 — 10/29, 16:19·1 sources (all)·1 reports (all)
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- A outbound-sales practitioner on DEV Community described assembling four Apify Actors around an ideal-customer profile: first counting match…
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On 2026-10-29, a professional outbound list builder posted on DEV Community, describing how he built a Lusha alternative with Claude Code and Apify. In his view, Lusha and ZoomInfo essentially sell one column, the mobile number, while the rest of the row is obtainable elsewhere — and the number is the column that is empty most of the time, whichever vendor's logo sits on the seat. Teams that dial, he says, keep asking the same question every month: not whether a vendor has numbers at all, but how many of the people they actually want have one. Nobody can answer that before a contract is signed.
His setup takes a target customer profile as input and combines four Apify Actors. It first counts matches for free, then lets the user choose one of three follow-ups: pull only contacts that have a number, pull only callable leads, or fill in missing numbers for contacts already in hand. The whole flow is driven by Claude Code through MCP, and the author states that the figures cited come from actual runs that same day.
That is where the matter stands per the available material: a single first-hand account of the approach, with no independent confirmation, vendor response, or further development reported as of 2026-10-29.
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An outbound-list builder described on DEV Community a cheaper alternative to Lusha and ZoomInfo: feed one ideal customer profile into four Apify Actors, get free counts first, then pull only contacts with a mobile number, only callable leads, or fill in numbers for contacts already on hand. Claude Code drives the runs over MCP, and the author says every figure cited comes from that day's actual runs.
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