Built by a developer,
for developers.

PeopleDB is a contact intelligence API: pass a LinkedIn or GitHub identifier and one call returns verified email addresses, phone numbers, and social profiles. It was built by Erik Strömberg, a developer who writes about the underlying problems on dev.to and ships the open-source pieces on GitHub. The premise was simple: contact data is a commodity, and buying access to it should work like buying access to any other API: self-serve, clear pricing, no discovery call required before you're allowed to see a price.

The data landscape kept getting more fragmented while the tools built on top of it kept getting bloated. Enrichment platforms added seats, dashboards, sequences, and integrations that most users don't need — and priced accordingly. The observation behind PeopleDB is that in the AI era, data is the primitive, not the application. Developers and technical teams want to build their own pipelines from a small set of reliable, well-defined tools. A clean API call should be enough.

PeopleDB is a small operation with small overhead. That's intentional. Low fixed costs make it possible to charge less per lookup than larger platforms without cutting corners on coverage. It's been in development for over a year and launched in early 2026.

How the work is done

The hard parts of this product are engineering problems, not sales problems, and the blog documents them as they get solved: why a GitHub login is so hard to turn into a deliverable address, why LinkedIn has no email API and what every tool does instead, and what SMTP verification can and cannot promise. Each post shows the protocol traces and the code, because a reader who builds pipelines should be able to check the claims.

The same standard applies to the product pages. Competitor facts on the comparison pages carry the date they were checked and link to the source. Pricing is public, per lookup, and identical for every account. The API reference is a static page you can read without JavaScript, and the contact enrichment guide explains how to evaluate any tool in this category, including this one, on your own identifiers before paying.

What PeopleDB is not

It is not a prospecting database, a CRM, or an outreach tool. There are no seats, no sequences, no dialer, and no sales team. You bring an identifier; it returns the contact record, and you are charged only when that record contains at least one email address. If you need to find people rather than resolve them, the comparison pages say plainly which tools do that better.

Questions or feedback: contact@peopledb.co. PeopleDB is also on LinkedIn and Product Hunt.