Today we’re looking at Dashworks and Needl, two products that want to help find your digital knowledge quicker. You know, that document you saved three months ago and promised you’ll remember it’s in your Slack bookmarks and not your email inbox. 

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We’re suckers for serendipitous moments like today: two products with similar missions but slightly different approaches launching on the same day.

Dashworks is a mix between a start page and a search engine that lets you query your company’s internal knowledge bases. It integrates with apps like Notion, Slack, Jira, Google Drive, and Outlook and uses natural language processing to look not only through titles but also the content and metadata within each file.

The two makers behind Dashworks first introduced the product to the community back in February and used the momentum to gather feedback and improve the product for its public launch. “At that time, we were scared: we barely made any money and had just a handful of early customers who were in love with the product, but we weren’t sure if we were ready to launch publicly,” one of them shares on today’s launch.

The company’s backed by the likes of Justin Kan (through Goat Capital) and was part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2020 batch.

Also fresh out of YC: Needl. At first glance, Needl’s mission is fairly similar to Dashworks’: make it easier to find information buried across apps. However, Needl’s focus is strictly on making the search experience better and faster. While Dashworks plans are reserved for teams only, Needl emphasizes the single-player consumer experience, offering a free plan to “conquer your personal haystack.”

We’re seeing more and more discussion around search and plenty of new products trying to take on the giants. So, is the future of search boutique? Let us know your thoughts.