This is a hugely needed service, but what's the privacy implication of giving you access to gmail, dropbox, etc?
Won't you have access to all that data?
How do you keep employees from seeing it?
How do you protect it from being leaked?
Have you, Brian, ever looked at the content of someone's data on Binocs?
What does your 'god mode' give access to?
@andrewwarner Thanks so much for this question, Andrew. It's an important one, and obviously something we take extremely seriously. You can learn about our security precautions here: https://www.getbinocs.com/security
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Awesome, this looks promising. Would it include Google Photos at some point? Also, are you using Lucene/Solr for indexing and searching across all these services?
@sarthakgrover Sarthak, we'll do our best to deliver on the promise! We probably won't incorporate Google Photos because we're designing this more as a workplace tool that will help you find attachments and files across the multiple silos that spring up in businesses of all sizes.
As for our search back-end, we're using Algolia. Thanks for your interest!
Thanks for hunting us, Brad, and hello Product Hunt!
We built Binocs to make finding the files, attachments, and conversations you're looking for faster and easier than ever.
Binocs lets you connect your Gmail, Dropbox, Drive and other cloud accounts to create your own personal search engine.
Once you’ve found what you’re looking for, Binocs becomes a productivity tool, putting a whole batch of common next steps right at your fingertips. You can open the file, copy the Share Link, go to the original email, show the file in Finder, all kinds of great stuff to help you work faster and smarter. We basically want your coworkers to think you’re some kind of hyper-efficient superhuman with a steel-trap memory.
We also give you the ability to create your own Channels. Channels are saved searches that allow you to stay current on important topics across all of your cloud services. If there are specific projects you're tracking, you can create a Channel to notify you whenever a file changes or a conversation mentioning that topic happens anywhere in Gmail, Dropbox, etc. It doesn't matter if a team member made the change – you'll never miss it.
Ok, PH. Take a look and let us know what you think!
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@brhea At Vaultedge we are building a similar product and currently in private beta. All the best for your launch.
Reminds me of Greplin, which I'm sad shut down years ago. I use so many services, and having something that searches across all of them is so variable. Really excited for this!
@brhea Make sure you have an API, if possible! That way anyone can create "connectors" to push data into Binocs, since it'd suck to have missing files :)
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Been looking for something like this since my old solution (whose name I've forgotten) pivoted a couple years back. Very needed. Can't wait!
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