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Re: Launch HN: Needl (YC S22) – Simple search across all your apps

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Post by xp84 »

MaxKeenan wrote: post #23
rsstack wrote: post #18

Love the concept. I wish there were a way to add custom integrations for in-house software we use or uncommon systems we use. It would work better if these things were configured at the organization-level and not user-level (i.e. IT connecting Confluence to Needl instead of individual users requesting access one-by-one). Typo on the pricing page: "and soon to be may others", I assume meant "many". Would love to try b…

Understand where you're coming from on the org-level auth vs individual. Part of the goal with Needl is to be entirely self-serve, where one member of a team can use it without needing company wide approval. Thanks for calling out the site issues -- will get those fixed asap!

If one member of a team is meant to be able to just use it without IT being involved, don't you foresee companies getting very cranky about an employee uploading all their work documents, emails, etc. to an external cloud they don't control?

Re: Launch HN: Needl (YC S22) – Simple search across all your apps

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Post by theolivenbaum »

Welcome to the space - I'm one of the founders from https://curiosity.ai! It's crazy how much movement there is recently, with Slapdash (now part of ClickUp), Command-E (sold to Dropbox), Raycast and many others, seems like the quest for the one search is still pretty much alive!

Really interesting to see how you're integrating LLMs - something we've been curious to play with (but not yet feasible on-device as our app indexes everything locally).

Re: Launch HN: Needl (YC S22) – Simple search across all your apps

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Post by jamesmcintyre »

Needl looks really cool, congrats on the launch!

Wondering if you could speak on a few topics in the spirit of hacker news / yc community:

1. Wondering if you've run into any friction yet where employers block the end-user from integrating with their apps? Just curious to what level that is or is not a common practice for enterprise users?

2. After using previous products that promise similar "search across all apps" functionality I soon felt the early excitement/novelty wear off and returned to old behaviors (ie, searching using each app's search). No doubt this is just a testament to how hard new habits are to build (and the old to let go of) but I'm wondering what your thoughts are on the human behavior / psychological aspect of products that have characteristics like this? As a tangential example, recent blogs posts featured on HN talked about how perhaps a chat-gpt conversational interface is not actually ideal to replace various UI/UX as it may take more cognitive overhead for the user to think of how to describe what they want when normally the UI/UX is what previously assisted them to arrive at that data. Basically I'm wondering how congruent (to existing behaviors) or novel your UX is and to what extent you believe this presents challenges to your team when designing (and perhaps marketing) the product?

3. Can you speak on your YC journey?

Thanks and good luck!

Re: Launch HN: Needl (YC S22) – Simple search across all your apps

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Post by moneywoes »

dang wrote: post #30
ushakov wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

Having just looked at the data, it's pretty clear to me that this entire exchange was fake. We ban accounts that do that. Please don't do it again. It's particularly uncool that you're doing this, given the number of times that you posted at length accusing us (falsely) of nefarious actions in moderating this site. Btw, I took special care to make sure that your own startup got a nice amount of exposure on HN, despit…

So he made a fake account to ask the question then replied with his original account?

Re: Launch HN: Needl (YC S22) – Simple search across all your apps

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Post by MaxKeenan »

xp84 wrote: post #31
MaxKeenan wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Understand where you're coming from on the org-level auth vs individual. Part of the goal with Needl is to be entirely self-serve, where one member of a team can use it without needing company wide approval. Thanks for calling out the site issues -- will get those fixed asap!

If one member of a team is meant to be able to just use it without IT being involved, don't you foresee companies getting very cranky about an employee uploading all their work documents, emails, etc. to an external cloud they don't control?

Certainly happens - in this case IT usually contacts the employee, who connects us with IT and then we share our SOC II / describe our security processes and they grant us company wide access. Ends up not being a massive problem, but the added benefit on an employee / individual being able to self-serve offsets it, in our mind at least.

At some point, we'll likely kick off an enterprise-focused initiative. Thanks for bringing this up, very good points.

Re: Launch HN: Needl (YC S22) – Simple search across all your apps

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Post by MaxKeenan »

rsstack wrote: post #25
MaxKeenan wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Understand where you're coming from on the org-level auth vs individual. Part of the goal with Needl is to be entirely self-serve, where one member of a team can use it without needing company wide approval. Thanks for calling out the site issues -- will get those fixed asap!

I just emailed you for help. When trying to self-serve, I immediately got blocked by automated corporate policies :)

Yup! Hopefully the workaround I sent was easy enough -- please let me know if there's anything else I can help with!

Re: Launch HN: Needl (YC S22) – Simple search across all your apps

#37

Post by dang »

moneywoes wrote: post #34
dang wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having just looked at the data, it's pretty clear to me that this entire exchange was fake. We ban accounts that do that. Please don't do it again. It's particularly uncool that you're doing this, given the number of times that you posted at length accusing us (falsely) of nefarious actions in moderating this site. Btw, I took special care to make sure that your own startup got a nice amount of exposure on HN, despit…

So he made a fake account to ask the question then replied with his original account?

No, I meant that (assuming I'm reading the data correctly) the exchange was orchestrated and not at all organic.

I don't normally post publicly about these things but when people try to mess with another startup's launch thread, it gets my goat (YC-related or not), and to use manipulative tactics while doing it goes over my threshold for saying something.

Re: Launch HN: Needl (YC S22) – Simple search across all your apps

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Post by yuvalsteuer »

dang wrote: post #28
yuvalsteuer wrote: post #27

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Please stop hijacking another startup's launch thread. You've already posted elsewhere in the thread, and that part was pretty obviously a fake, staged conversation. Not cool. (In case anyone's wondering, yes, this is just as not-cool whether the startup is YC funded or not, and I've posted such scoldings in such threads in the past.) Manipulative tactics like voting rings and staged comments are not ok on HN—this is…

Was not my intention at all, sunlight is the best disinfectant.

I'm not saying you're accusing me of anything, but what would be a fair comment in you're eyes, I'll be happy to learn.

Re: Launch HN: Needl (YC S22) – Simple search across all your apps

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Post by MaxKeenan »

theolivenbaum wrote: post #32

Welcome to the space - I'm one of the founders from https://curiosity.ai ! It's crazy how much movement there is recently, with Slapdash (now part of ClickUp), Command-E (sold to Dropbox), Raycast and many others, seems like the quest for the one search is still pretty much alive! Really interesting to see how you're integrating LLMs - something we've been curious to play with (but not yet feasible on-device as our a…

Certainly a very lively space, feels like just about everyone is trying to solve the problem at hand. Always happy to share thoughts / learnings in the space -- we should find a time to connect, feel free to email me at max@needl.tech

Re: Launch HN: Needl (YC S22) – Simple search across all your apps

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Post by dang »

yuvalsteuer wrote: post #38
dang wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please stop hijacking another startup's launch thread. You've already posted elsewhere in the thread, and that part was pretty obviously a fake, staged conversation. Not cool. (In case anyone's wondering, yes, this is just as not-cool whether the startup is YC funded or not, and I've posted such scoldings in such threads in the past.) Manipulative tactics like voting rings and staged comments are not ok on HN—this is…

Was not my intention at all, sunlight is the best disinfectant. I'm not saying you're accusing me of anything, but what would be a fair comment in you're eyes, I'll be happy to learn.

What would be fairest is to let a competing startup have their launch thread without trying to interfere with it. Each startup deserves its own day in the sun.

If you're going to post, you certainly shouldn't do it more than once.

Replying in multiple places to change the subject to your own promotion is in bad taste, and orchestrating exchanges with seemingly-unrelated other users is an outright abuse and the sort of thing we ban accounts for if they do it repeatedly.

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