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Re: Apply HN: Vaultedge – a private Google for your private data

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Post by sajeevaravind »

sharkrain wrote: post #10

Can Vaultedge work offline; and if a complete online cloud platform how do u update data from users device.

Though Vaultedge is hosted on cloud, it can support offline data sitting in laptops or usb drives. When connecting a offline device to Vaultedge, Vaultedge will ask user to install a client program. This client program will help in categorization and creation of search index of the offline data. Once categorized and indexed, periodically the client program will redo the operations when there are changes to the data. When user clicks on such a offline file, Vaultedge has the ability to pull the file from the offline storage if the device is connected. Users also have the option of keeping a copy of such offline data within Vaultedge cloud for faster access. Thanks for the question. Please let me know if you have further questions.

Re: Apply HN: Vaultedge – a private Google for your private data

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Post by sajeevaravind »

pranavdivakar wrote: post #12

Hey, Sounds like an interesting product! From the YouTube video I see that the files are separated into different categories, Is this a manual process or does your product segregate it automatically for me ??

Vaultedge uses a combination of Machine learning and parsing to categorise documents. First level ML will identify the file as belonging to certain category and then that category focussed ML training set will give us the sub-categories. Sometimes we also do plain parsing to arrive at the category. But all these are automated, there is no manual intervention involved. Thanks for your question. Please feel free to ask any follow up questions .

Re: Apply HN: Vaultedge – a private Google for your private data

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Post by sajeevaravind »

adithyak wrote: post #14

This sounds interesting. I've always had the problem of sorting through and finding my old documents. Would love to try it out. Can you tell me what the accuracy of your categorization is? Also, are you targeting any specific market to start with?

Glad you liked it. Vaultedge will categorize a document into "some" category 80% of the times. Remaining 20% of the documents will be put into a General category. Within the 80% of the classified documents, we have seen that the classification is 60-80% accurate and the accuracy rate varies within that range based on the type of documents user has. If the user has large number of documents unseen by Vaultedge before, then the accuracy lowers. But we have a continuous feedback system which learns based on user actions. If user changes the category to a different one, we learn from that and will apply that categorization to new set of documents for that user.

The initial target market is IT/Finance professionals who use multiple email accounts, cloud drives etc.

Thanks for the question. Happy to answer any follow up question you may have.

Re: Apply HN: Vaultedge – a private Google for your private data

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Post by shanu_kumar »

Hi Sajeev.

This seems an interesting concept. I am curious about the competition though. Are there startups who are working on a similar concept?

In addition, how do you plan to migrate people from well established storage services such as Google drive and Dropbox?

Re: Apply HN: Vaultedge – a private Google for your private data

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Post by sajeevaravind »

shanu_kumar wrote: post #16

Hi Sajeev. This seems an interesting concept. I am curious about the competition though. Are there startups who are working on a similar concept? In addition, how do you plan to migrate people from well established storage services such as Google drive and Dropbox?

Hi Shanu,

That's a good question. Part of the problem is addressed by few startups like meta.sc and mohiomap, all in infancy like us. They both allow search for files across all storage. But they don't attempt to categorize the data nor allow data of offline devices to be kept within them.

We are complimentary to Dropbox and Googledrive. Users can continue to keep their data where ever they are storing now. We just make the discovery easier.

Thanks, those are some great questions. Happy to answer any further questions you may have.

Re: Apply HN: Vaultedge – a private Google for your private data

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Post by sajeevaravind »

VikasJain wrote: post #17

Hi Sajeev, Seems very interesting. How do you compare with services like spark form readdle? Also how long does the categorization take the first time?

Hi Vikas,

That's a good question. Spark is an inbox assistant which helps to improve the email tasks productivity. Eventhough the categorization of emails makes it looks like it is in the same space as Vaultedge, I think it is not. Vaultedge is a personal document organizer, which helps you to find your documents quickly irrespective of whereever it is. So we work across emails, cloud storage, offline devices etc. So in that sense, the purpose of these two tools are different at least as of now.

Thanks for the great question. Happy to answer any follow up questions.

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