Ask HN: Review my startup - GrexIt: Build a Knowledge Base out of your email

Site URL: http://grexit.com

Please use this invite code to register: INVGREXIT

GrexIt helps to create a company-wide Knowledge Base right out of your email. Important email discussions, customer interaction, files and knowledge remains trapped and gets lost in email inboxes. GrexIt allows to easily add email conversations and file attachments to a shared repository, so that you and your colleagues can:

- Find stuff easily

- Never lose or re-invent knowledge again

KEY FEATURES:

- Easily add useful email conversations along with file attachments to a shared repository.

- Define Rules to automatically fetch important discussions and add them to the repository

- GrexIt automatically fetches any further emails received on such discussions after they are added to GrexIt

- Search and Organize your content inside GrexIt easily

- Easily control access to email discussions added to GrexIt to allow access to specific people in your company

Would love to know your thoughts and suggestions !

This looks very useful. My immediate concern is that the system relies on human beings to mark and forward the useful bits of information. Is it possible to set the fetch rules to actually search the contents of an email for certain keywords instead of relying on labels?

Thanks. Currently it relies on labels that the user applies on the discussion in their inbox, but we're extending Fetch Rules to be sensitive to conditions similar to what you define in a gmail label, and more. (like, whenever a certain person discusses anything with a person from a specific domain or not from a specific domain, fetch the discussion)

Cool idea. There's an error in your video though. It says the email discussion between Simon and Ray is dead, except Ray didn't talk to Simon, it was the discussion between Simon and Ashook(sic) that died.

Thanks. There's a lot of useful stuff that the tool does:

- When you've added a discussion once to GrexIt, it will automatically keep track of any follow-up emails that you might receive on the discussion after you added it to GrexIt, and pulls them in automatically.

- If two people in your company are discussing something, GrexIt will not allow BOTH of you to add the discussion to GrexIt - so it takes care of duplication of content.

- Controlling access is very easy. Its closely tied to to our content organization feature and is very intuitive.

Would be great if you can try it out if you're on Google Apps.