Using cloud services is scary. But giving a cloud service full access to all my cloud services scares the * out of me. I’m a scared person.
Came here to say that. It's repulsive, I prefer to search manually than to introduce another risk factor.
Diamond – fast search across all your cloud services
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#12Never knew I needed that until it appeared on the HN front page. On a more serious note, I can totally see the value this adds. Everything is so fragmented these days. Nice. Franz did something similar for chat, but never really took off, I'm afraid. Hopefully, those guys will fare better.
> Everything is so fragmented these days.
Maybe we need a cloud-cloud. One place to put all our files. The unifying interface would take care of uploading/downloading files to/from the individual clouds.
Would be nice if all clouds supported a common communication protocol. I for one would like to mount cloud storages as network drives in macOS without third-party apps (aka badly working hacks). One can dream…
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#13So they rebuilt Alfred and are charging for it?
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#14Using cloud services is scary. But giving a cloud service full access to all my cloud services scares the * out of me. I’m a scared person.
isn't this an app like Rambox which is effectively a glorified web browser? That one at least only opens the web interfaces of the various chat and email applications out there right now, it doesn't store (or claims not to) any credentials itself. Doesn't need to either. I mean it'd have to implement authentication for all those services, which is hard to scale.
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#15Never knew I needed that until it appeared on the HN front page. On a more serious note, I can totally see the value this adds. Everything is so fragmented these days. Nice. Franz did something similar for chat, but never really took off, I'm afraid. Hopefully, those guys will fare better.
Franz looks like it was an abandoned project; its spiritual successor seems to be Rambox, which supports a lot more services atm. See http://rambox.pro/
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#16I worked at a company building something similar. I do think this kinda product is a bit niche. Certainly when we tried to roll something out similar it was a hard sell as most companies are trying to standardise on one type of cloud storage solution.
That being said they do support searching across slack, email and other things. That was something we didn't support and I think that makes this product much more appealing.
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#17I wonder if by native app they mean an actual native app instead of a fake native app (Electron I'm looking at you)
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#18I wonder if by native app they mean an actual native app instead of a fake native app (Electron I'm looking at you)
Will there come a time when Electron apps are considered native? I'm not being facetious here, just posing the question that if — say — the horrendous performance issues of Electron were ironed-out, or perhaps a similar standard that isn't such a mess, would you consider it less fake?
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#19Never knew I needed that until it appeared on the HN front page. On a more serious note, I can totally see the value this adds. Everything is so fragmented these days. Nice. Franz did something similar for chat, but never really took off, I'm afraid. Hopefully, those guys will fare better.
Franz looks like it was an abandoned project; its spiritual successor seems to be Rambox, which supports a lot more services atm. See http://rambox.pro/
It’s not abandoned but the new version requires an account on their cloud service. I’ve abandoned it now because of that.
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#20I worked at a company building something similar. I do think this kinda product is a bit niche. Certainly when we tried to roll something out similar it was a hard sell as most companies are trying to standardise on one type of cloud storage solution. That being said they do support searching across slack, email and other things. That was something we didn't support and I think that makes this product much more appea…
A new one of these services pops up every 6 months or so. From what I’ve seen, they don’t stick around.