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Launch HN: Slapdash (YC W19) – A uniform, low-latency interface for cloud apps

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Re: Launch HN: Slapdash (YC W19) – A uniform, low-latency interface for cloud apps

#41
This looks like the command menu we designed for Emvi [1]. I like seeing this taken to the desktop. It feels really good just to type in a command and get where ever you're trying to get faster than by clicking. This is what I like about Linux too.

[1] https://emvi.com/blog/a-new-experimental-user-interface-QMZg... - it looks different than in the article, as it has changed quite a bit in the past few months

Re: Launch HN: Slapdash (YC W19) – A uniform, low-latency interface for cloud apps

#42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because the whole thing was clearly an NSA corp with the main objective to funnel data to gov agencies disguised as a very helpful app.

What do you mean "very clearly?" People with an intel background doesn't make it an NSA op. The NSA grabs top talent all the time, and companies grab them when they leave. Im curious how you spotted the spooks :)

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/farallon-research

Re: Launch HN: Slapdash (YC W19) – A uniform, low-latency interface for cloud apps

#43
Congrats on the launch, this looks really cool and I'll give it a try.

Just a quick note: the GitHub connect page asks whether it should index the private repos or not, but when I try to connect my account even after I disable it the oAuth page says that you'll be able to read and write to the private repositories, which seems to contradict with what I assumed I'd achieve by turning that flag off.

Re: Launch HN: Slapdash (YC W19) – A uniform, low-latency interface for cloud apps

#44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this is relevant. It's cool that you've mentioned a couple of "competitors" -- which are internal to large tech companies. Would you guys be open to providing a self-hosted solution for large clients?

We are definitely open to a self-hosted solution, but at the moment we have a small team, so we are trying to keep our engineering surface area manageable. In the near future, we will be offering deployment to an isolated instance. It would be operated by us, but we would be able to provide infrastructure access. A step after that would be to offer VPC deployment where the updates are applied by the customer and we w…

Sounds reasonable, thanks!

Re: Launch HN: Slapdash (YC W19) – A uniform, low-latency interface for cloud apps

#46
Very cool! I've connected two shared gdrives from work and am finding it infinitely easier to navigate than my usual workflow.

Couple of very minor FYI's i've noticed on the macOS app:

- on logout the ui redirected to a text 'error' screen (no ui / obvious blip) .. had to quit. The webui worked as expected redirecting to the homepage. I'd initially signed in to the wrong email account.

- When 'app visibility' is set to 'Just in menu', cmd+j-ing into the command bar causes the app to reappear in the dock and needs to be (x)'d again.

Re: Launch HN: Slapdash (YC W19) – A uniform, low-latency interface for cloud apps

#47

Very cool! I've connected two shared gdrives from work and am finding it infinitely easier to navigate than my usual workflow. Couple of very minor FYI's i've noticed on the macOS app: - on logout the ui redirected to a text 'error' screen (no ui / obvious blip) .. had to quit. The webui worked as expected redirecting to the homepage. I'd initially signed in to the wrong email account. - When 'app visibility' is set…

Cool, thanks for the reports. Will fix.

Re: Launch HN: Slapdash (YC W19) – A uniform, low-latency interface for cloud apps

#48

Congrats on the launch, this looks really cool and I'll give it a try. Just a quick note: the GitHub connect page asks whether it should index the private repos or not, but when I try to connect my account even after I disable it the oAuth page says that you'll be able to read and write to the private repositories, which seems to contradict with what I assumed I'd achieve by turning that flag off.

Thanks for reporting this! Sometimes apps support only "all or nothing" permissions (called "oauth2 scopes"), i.e. to request feature A from the app, we have to request features B and C too, because some scope enables A, B and C simultaneously.

But this particular GitHub case seems to be different. So it's fixed.

Re: Launch HN: Slapdash (YC W19) – A uniform, low-latency interface for cloud apps

#49

Any plans on a linux client?

Yes, it's almost ready. You can actually download a linux build from: https://download.slapdash.com/ The one thing we have left is fixing auth. We auth in the browser and then open the desktop app to pass the auth tokens to the desktop client. However, this hand off is more difficult to achieve with Linux (can't just open slapdash:// URLs as easily as you can on OS X and windows). There is a work around hack, where i…

Thanks for Linux support.

I am no expert, but as far as my experience goes, an app registers a URI scheme with the system, and then it is as easy as 'xdg-open scheme://stuff's life e12e said.

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