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@jasonrastrick @williamchanner This looks very promising. How much will it cost?

@danflopes @williamchanner We're still thinking a lot about this and would love feedback! When we leave beta, we'll be charging $10 a month for the Pro tier that allows unlimited cloud integrations and devices. We plan to support a lot more cloud accounts in the future. ☁️☁️☁️ There's more info here: www.meta.sc/pricing/ Any ideas?

@jasonrastrick @danflopes @williamchanner $10 for pro seems reasonable. What devices are you thinking of?

@macbikegeek @danflopes @williamchanner We're working on a Windows application right now, and we'll be supporting iOS and Android as well 😃

@jasonrastrick @danflopes @williamchanner My wife is eagerly awaiting the Windows version!

@kkkosariya Awesome, that's so great to hear!

@kkkosariya Thanks for helping us with beta testing! 🎉

@tomfme @jasonrastrick @emilypavlini I used to meticulously file things away in crazily complex folder structures trying to keep things organized. Since we built out Meta, I think I can count the number of folders I've created on one hand! As of now I basically have a few folders I'll throw things in to keep my top level clean, and whenever I need to access something I just go through Meta. All my old stuff still exists in those folder heirarchies (no need to rearrange it) and is just as accessible as the new.

@tomfme @emilypavlini @ataylor0123 I don’t organize at all, I rely entirely on Meta now 😃

@tomfme @jasonrastrick @ataylor0123 I'm very organized - maybe too organized (folders in folders in folders!) 😂 Meta saves me a TON of time because I just do a quick search instead of clicking into 100 different folders to get to what I'm looking for! I also now have files scattered across many different cloud services, so sometimes I can't remember where to look 😬

@lee_peterson Hmm, interesting, we didn't consider that user flow! If you connect your Dropbox and Drive cloud accounts to Meta that will be the source of truth, and you can still open those files locally if you have the Mac client. I would suggest removing Dropbox and Drive local syncing and just connect directly to the cloud apps themselves. 😃 Thanks so much for bringing this to our attention, we'll definitely update the Mac App to be more explicit about that! Let me know if you run into any issues with that, I'm happy to go into more detail!

@jasonrastrick Awesome. I hadn't actually considered it a UX issue now that I think about it. There didn't seem to be anything "wrong" with it, you know? I guess I just didn't see something like "We're indexing your entire Dropbox/Drive/Slack/etc. accounts, and you can add local macOS directories to index as well." If I saw that, then I'd just skip indexing local files since Alfred/Spotlight does that very well for me.

@lee_peterson Yeah that makes complete sense! Thanks!

Wow, thanks Product Hunters for all the traffic! We've brought on more than 10 times as many people today as we have in a single day so far, indexed millions of files, and processed tens of millions of requests. That's awesome!!! We did have a few hiccups along the way in getting everyone's Meta accounts ready, primarily in the form of slow downs, so some of you may just now be getting access to the search. There were a few different issues at play, but after some awesome work put in by our team and the wonderful folks at our technology partners, we've been able to mitigate most everything causing slowdowns, and the system is just about caught up to where it should be! If you haven't been unlocked just yet, you should be soon!

@macbikegeek Thanks for all the positive feedback - I'm blushing! 😊

@emilypavlini "Just the facts, ma'am" ;-)