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Show HN: Index – Organize Everything

11 points by brionicle 9y ago

brionicle 9y ago
Hiii! I just released a fledgling 1.0 of Index- a personal productivity platform that gives you a dashboard for the world of digital content. You use browser and mobile share extensions to save and #tag anything from anywhere. Then you can use the web, mobile, or desktop clients to search, rearrange, and share the content you've saved. You can also use (and develop!) /commands to access and manipulate external services. The idea is its an evil genius control panel, but for nice people. More about the build: This is 3 people (and a part time contractor)'s work over 2 months in preparation for launch at Disrupt. Was the most physically and emotionally damaging thing I've done in my life, but also the most rewarding. Truly. If you're curious about tech, from back to front: MongoDB, Redis, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Node microservices wrapped in Docker, Swift, Java, React/Redux and Electron on the clients. Tons of services providers for management- love paying subscriptions for my problems to be someone else's job. Worked as an engineer in popular startups my whole adult life while collecting knowledge, but I'm a first time CEO (CTO too I guess..?). Still feels funny to say. We've been bootstrapped off contract income from my previous agency (and my former savings account) and have been approached by enough investors that taking a seed round and putting 110% of our time into Index could be a wise decision. I will treasure any advice from people who have been here before, or have feedback about the company and product. Thanks for looking.
- justinsoong 9y ago
  all the best man, downloading it now will give it a spin
  - brionicle 9y ago
    Very kind of you. :)
HenriNext 9y ago
The idea seems good, and congrats on the launch! However, after you've worked so hard on this, it seems silly not to put more effort on the website: the description of the app is minimal, and you don't even have screenshots. By spending 1 day on the site you could probably reap double the results of the previous 60 days of work.
- brionicle 9y ago
  That's important advice- I'll take it to heart. It's really hard to change the dev schedule (with 3 guys supporting 6 clients until funding closes), but I totally agree and will elevate the threat level on web landing.
  - HenriNext 9y ago
    Btw investors are also going to check your website, and even though they'd try to stay objective and focus on core (team, idea, market blah blah) the appearance of website will have at least subconscious effect on their image about your company, and thus on the valuation. In that way "investing" bit more on your website may increase the investment on your company.
    - brionicle 9y ago
      I see your point. Will address this asap.
synapse0 9y ago
Why is this on Show, as opposed to being in Show New? Can anyone shed some light or point me to external resources about this? Thanks!
- HenriNext 9y ago
  Actually it's on both. The 'show' has recent top submissions, selected and sorted by ranking algorithm [1], and 'show new' has all recent submissions, sorted in reverse chronological order. [1] https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-hacker-news-ranking-algorithm-works-1d9b0cf2c08d https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-hacker-news-ranking...
phoobot 9y ago
I like the idea, but I would prefer not to share all this information and instead store an encrypted index, that I can e.g. put in a dropbox.
- brionicle 9y ago
  And if we encrypted all your stored data reset, you'd be interested? Its something we want to do later this year.
alphydan 9y ago
Why is it necessary to download the mobile app and register with it just to test drive the web app? You lost me there.

11 points by brionicle 9y ago

Hiii! I just released a fledgling 1.0 of Index- a personal productivity platform that gives you a dashboard for the world of digital content. You use browser and mobile share extensions to save and #tag anything from anywhere. Then you can use the web, mobile, or desktop clients to search, rearrange, and share the content you've saved. You can also use (and develop!) /commands to access and manipulate external services. The idea is its an evil genius control panel, but for nice people. More about the build: This is 3 people (and a part time contractor)'s work over 2 months in preparation for launch at Disrupt. Was the most physically and emotionally damaging thing I've done in my life, but also the most rewarding. Truly. If you're curious about tech, from back to front: MongoDB, Redis, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Node microservices wrapped in Docker, Swift, Java, React/Redux and Electron on the clients. Tons of services providers for management- love paying subscriptions for my problems to be someone else's job. Worked as an engineer in popular startups my whole adult life while collecting knowledge, but I'm a first time CEO (CTO too I guess..?). Still feels funny to say. We've been bootstrapped off contract income from my previous agency (and my former savings account) and have been approached by enough investors that taking a seed round and putting 110% of our time into Index could be a wise decision. I will treasure any advice from people who have been here before, or have feedback about the company and product. Thanks for looking.

justinsoong 9y ago
all the best man, downloading it now will give it a spin
- brionicle 9y ago
  Very kind of you. :)

HenriNext 9y ago

The idea seems good, and congrats on the launch! However, after you've worked so hard on this, it seems silly not to put more effort on the website: the description of the app is minimal, and you don't even have screenshots. By spending 1 day on the site you could probably reap double the results of the previous 60 days of work.

brionicle 9y ago
That's important advice- I'll take it to heart. It's really hard to change the dev schedule (with 3 guys supporting 6 clients until funding closes), but I totally agree and will elevate the threat level on web landing.
- HenriNext 9y ago
  Btw investors are also going to check your website, and even though they'd try to stay objective and focus on core (team, idea, market blah blah) the appearance of website will have at least subconscious effect on their image about your company, and thus on the valuation. In that way "investing" bit more on your website may increase the investment on your company.
  - brionicle 9y ago
    I see your point. Will address this asap.

synapse0 9y ago

Why is this on Show, as opposed to being in Show New? Can anyone shed some light or point me to external resources about this? Thanks!

HenriNext 9y ago
Actually it's on both. The 'show' has recent top submissions, selected and sorted by ranking algorithm [1], and 'show new' has all recent submissions, sorted in reverse chronological order. [1] https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-hacker-news-ranking-algorithm-works-1d9b0cf2c08d https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-hacker-news-ranking...

phoobot 9y ago

I like the idea, but I would prefer not to share all this information and instead store an encrypted index, that I can e.g. put in a dropbox.

brionicle 9y ago
And if we encrypted all your stored data reset, you'd be interested? Its something we want to do later this year.

alphydan 9y ago

Why is it necessary to download the mobile app and register with it just to test drive the web app? You lost me there.