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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

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Post by kanevski »

hv42 wrote: post #34
kanevski wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Both Slapdash and Command E can search apps, but Slapdash can do other things too: * You can also write to applications, it's not just read-only (create docs, file issues, close tasks, upload files, etc.) * You can browse the structure of applications in Slapdash (not just search them). * You can build sophisticated queries (show all tasks open tasks, that mention this customer, render it as a list) * We are client-a…

That's really cool! What's the process around adding new apps? Would one be able to integrate easily? I built Quest https://github.com/hverlin/Quest during the lockdown to search content across several apps (Gmail, Jira, Confluence...) as I could not find one that would allow me to do this.

Quest looks cool. I just downloaded and started playing with it - well done.

Today, we write the integrations ourselves.

We will eventually open up our APIs so people can build their own integrations to extend Slapdash. If you have ideas or thoughts on what would be a good dev experience, feel free to reach out.

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

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Post by kanevski »

mindhash wrote: post #58

interesting product. atleast something I would want to use. In my earlier job we had several repos and being new to the job, I had to search often to understand how a particular logic is handled. sometimes the search will lead to a doc or internal wiki. I had tried getFYI but I am much faster at typing than browsing. Also the command line looks useful too. Do you allow custom tasks? Like I do SSH often on the servers…

That's a really neat idea to be able to search logs quickly.

We definitely support building custom commands, but they are super limited today. We have to build the sophisticated commands ourselves. However, we will be opening up our toolkit, so if you have ideas on dev ex of building a command or how you would want to rig them up, feel free to reach out.

Feel free to shoot me an email (ivan@) if you want to brainstorm some commands and how they can work.

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

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Post by dylanz »

kanevski wrote: post #38
Gipetto wrote: post #35

So, does this mean that users hand over permissions to a 3rd party to index internal company systems? So you could read a Confluence instance, or some other kind of wiki, and be a vector for data/security leaks? Seems like there should be a "talk to your security team" disclaimer... people get fired for granting access like that.

We don't take security lightly, but we don't do a good job articulating how we safeguard things in the product. We'll fix this - thanks for pushing on it. There are details throughout this post, but I will summarize our high-level approach. * When we request permissions, we request a minimal set. For example, you can connect Drive with just meta-data access and our access will be scoped accordingly. * Everything is e…

How do guys afford quarterly pen-tests as a start up?

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

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Post by summitsummit »

kanevski wrote: post #4
shay_ker wrote: post #2

This sounds interesting at a high-level, and the octopus is cool, though I'm having trouble understanding how it'd impact my day-to-day. There's a gif on the homepage on how to... add to a "space"? I'm not totally sure what value this would bring to me. Do you have a gif or video showing someone already set up with everything, and then show them solving a few problems? And maybe even a side-by-side with someone tryin…

For folks that use are comfortable with using the keyboard, we recommend installing our desktop application. The desktop application adds a global shortcut (Cmd + J) by default, which you can use to pull up Slapdash. If you use launchers like Alfred or Spotlight, you can think of it as a drop-in replacement for those tools. The difference is that Slapdash can capture not just your desktop environment, but your cloud…

> you can think of it as a drop-in replacement for those tools

Unless I misunderstood the app while playing around with it and reading every word on your product page, it is not a _ drop-in replacement_ for those tools. Albeit, I didn't try creating my own url/launchers but if anything its functionalities seem like a subset of Alfred's abilities as opposed to a replacement.

..which was one of my primary hesitations considering this tool for adoption while playing with it. I already have Alfred, this doesn't replace Alfred, and I don't want yet another launcher to keep in mind. I could just sync all apps locally (Dropbox/Google Drive) and get the majority of the value proposition of Slapdash with Alfred.

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

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Post by kanevski »

summitsummit wrote: post #68
kanevski wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For folks that use are comfortable with using the keyboard, we recommend installing our desktop application. The desktop application adds a global shortcut (Cmd + J) by default, which you can use to pull up Slapdash. If you use launchers like Alfred or Spotlight, you can think of it as a drop-in replacement for those tools. The difference is that Slapdash can capture not just your desktop environment, but your cloud…

> you can think of it as a drop-in replacement for those tools Unless I misunderstood the app while playing around with it and reading every word on your product page, it is not a _ drop-in replacement_ for those tools. Albeit, I didn't try creating my own url/launchers but if anything its functionalities seem like a subset of Alfred's abilities as opposed to a replacement. ..which was one of my primary hesitations c…

You are right - the “control-your-computer” functionality is currently a subset of Alfred, but we are working on bridging that gap.

Most people use Alfred in limited ways, and we tried to cover those hot paths. However, we are still working on covering the long tail of that feature set.

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

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Post by kanevski »

dylanz wrote: post #63
kanevski wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We don't take security lightly, but we don't do a good job articulating how we safeguard things in the product. We'll fix this - thanks for pushing on it. There are details throughout this post, but I will summarize our high-level approach. * When we request permissions, we request a minimal set. For example, you can connect Drive with just meta-data access and our access will be scoped accordingly. * Everything is e…

How do guys afford quarterly pen-tests as a start up?

We are lucky to be a funded company with 5 people and couple of years of runway.

A pen test costs half the monthly salary of an engineer, so it’s an easy investment to rationalize on a quarterly basis.

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