Show HN: Haystack, search across your cloud accounts securely
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Show HN: Haystack, search across your cloud accounts securely
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#2Hi haystack! Can you describe your favourite haystack user story? I didn't get it from visiting you site. Also, if it's not too time consuming maybe support mobile devices on your pitch site.
Also, what's your tech stack?
Re: Show HN: Haystack, search across your cloud accounts securely
#3Hi haystack! Can you describe your favourite haystack user story? I didn't get it from visiting you site. Also, if it's not too time consuming maybe support mobile devices on your pitch site. Also, what's your tech stack?
Sure!
Story: So I was doing a usability study with someone and they were saying how they couldn't find a particular document (I think it was a pitch deck) anywhere even though they'd tried for 20 minutes the day before. They were able to it after a few seconds in Haystack - it turns out they'd mispelt the name so it didn't come up in Drive, GMail or Slack when they looked for it!
Mobile: Fair point, our 'splash page' supports mobile which you can see here: https://www.haystackapps.com
Tech Stack: So they extension is written in pure javascript using a framework I designed for some internal stuff I did for a previous company. We then use Babelify and Uglifiy to compile it into usable code. The web server is written in Node, but its very simple as it just hosts the splash page and generates tokens for the extension.
Appreciate the questions, let me know if you give it a try and if we can make it better for you!
Re: Show HN: Haystack, search across your cloud accounts securely
#4Hi haystack! Can you describe your favourite haystack user story? I didn't get it from visiting you site. Also, if it's not too time consuming maybe support mobile devices on your pitch site. Also, what's your tech stack?
Sure! Story: So I was doing a usability study with someone and they were saying how they couldn't find a particular document (I think it was a pitch deck) anywhere even though they'd tried for 20 minutes the day before. They were able to it after a few seconds in Haystack - it turns out they'd mispelt the name so it didn't come up in Drive, GMail or Slack when they looked for it! Mobile: Fair point, our 'splash page'…
IC. But how can an extension like your's search through gmail better than gmail's own search? Or better than slack's? Do you use their api's? Did you roll your own full-text search?
Re: Show HN: Haystack, search across your cloud accounts securely
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure! Story: So I was doing a usability study with someone and they were saying how they couldn't find a particular document (I think it was a pitch deck) anywhere even though they'd tried for 20 minutes the day before. They were able to it after a few seconds in Haystack - it turns out they'd mispelt the name so it didn't come up in Drive, GMail or Slack when they looked for it! Mobile: Fair point, our 'splash page'…
IC. But how can an extension like your's search through gmail better than gmail's own search? Or better than slack's? Do you use their api's? Did you roll your own full-text search?
Great question!
I wouldn't say if you're just looking for something in Gmail that we will be better. The main benefit is that you're able to search through all of them in one place.
The way it works is, we show you "instant" results from files/documents that we have cached from your providers and your browser history. However, we also show you below that results that come direct from Gmail, Slack, Drive...etc.
That way if we don't find the result you're after, you're able to see the same results as if you'd opened up all the tabs and performed the searches in each tool as well. We do this using their OAuth search functionalities.
We do do full text search for documents that you have visited in the past, and the cloud providers often do this as well so that helps ensure we can find you good results.
One big difference is that our search uses a less precise search, which means we support spelling mistakes, different ordering...etc. Which can help us find documents that are hard to find.
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#6I see nothing that resembles a revenue model, which terrifies me: where's the thing I'm not seeing? Are you rewriting Amazon purchases to use your referral code? Are you selling data about me to third parties? Are you not monetizing at all and hoping to make up in "exposure?"
When I can't spot the money, I wonder what I'm missing. Your lack of privacy policy (at least, I can't find one!) doesn't help.
Re: Show HN: Haystack, search across your cloud accounts securely
#7I see nothing that resembles a revenue model, which terrifies me: where's the thing I'm not seeing? Are you rewriting Amazon purchases to use your referral code? Are you selling data about me to third parties? Are you not monetizing at all and hoping to make up in "exposure?" When I can't spot the money, I wonder what I'm missing. Your lack of privacy policy (at least, I can't find one!) doesn't help.
Apologises that is a direct link to access... To see our privacy policy and how we plan to monetize:
https://www.haystackapps.com
In short, we give out the free version for files, documents, your history. Our paid version allows you to search Sales, Marketing and other information in an aggregated form.
Completely agree though, we probably should put that somewhere on that signup page so that people know how we make money (otherwise it does sound like we would need to do something iffy to still be around in a years time!).
Appreciate the question, also the direct link to the privacy document: https://www.haystackapps.com/privacy