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Diamond – fast search across all your cloud services
- dotdi 9y agoNever knew I needed that until it appeared on the HN front page. On a more serious note, I can totally see the value this adds. Everything is so fragmented these days. Nice. Franz did something similar for chat, but never really took off, I'm afraid. Hopefully, those guys will fare better.
- moreira 9y agoThe problem with Franz is it's literally just a browser running each chat service in its own tab. For anyone who's known and used well-integrated multi-protocol IMs like Pidgin or Trillian (or heck, any of the browser-based ones from the past), it's incredibly sad how far we've fallen.
- jermaustin1 9y agoEspecially since my Trillian account is now ONLY for Trillian and a single client who uses XMPP for their chat. Google Chat is gone, AIM is gone, Facebook Chat is gone. No one uses ICQ anymore, and even if they did, they are probably on my facebook or hangouts anyway. Its disappointing how every chat service went to a closed protocol model.
- tqkxzugoaupvwqr 9y ago> Everything is so fragmented these days. Maybe we need a cloud-cloud. One place to put all our files. The unifying interface would take care of uploading/downloading files to/from the individual clouds. Would be nice if all clouds supported a common communication protocol. I for one would like to mount cloud storages as network drives in macOS without third-party apps (aka badly working hacks). One can dream…
- oddevan 9y agoI recognize this is a third-party app, but Mountain Duck https://mountainduck.io https://mountainduck.io might have something like what you're looking for?
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoFranz looks like it was an abandoned project; its spiritual successor seems to be Rambox, which supports a lot more services atm. See http://rambox.pro/ http://rambox.pro/
- dorian-graph 9y agoIt’s not abandoned but the new version requires an account on their cloud service. I’ve abandoned it now because of that.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoWhy on Earth would it need that for? Was planning to check Franz out; now I won't bother.
- dorian-graph 9y agoFor money, and whatever else, it seems. [1] It's a shame because it works well. I asked in their Slack channel if there would be a way to use Franz 5 without that, and was told no. The code has been open-sourced [2], so perhaps someone could fork it. [1] https://meetfranz.com/pricing/ https://meetfranz.com/pricing/ [2] https://www.github.com/meetfranz/franz https://www.github.com/meetfranz/franz
- rushsteve1 9y agoAnyone know if this supports Nextcloud/WebDav? I can't seem to be able to tell from the website. That and a nice Linux version and I would use this in a heartbeat considering how all over the place things are these days.
- intellent 9y agoUsing cloud services is scary. But giving a cloud service full access to all my cloud services scares the * out of me. I’m a scared person.
- arxpoetica 9y agoI agree 100%. That said, the need for something like this almost outweighs the cost. But I so agree w/ what you're saying. That was my first thought—uh—so. much. access. Before I sign up, I'd want to know what's safe, where, and why. And more realistically, why not.
- ashusyal 9y agoHey there, happy to answer any questions you might have. Diamond's working to make permissions more granular and transparent with each release. Some quick points: * we don't store the files themselves, only the metadata the service provides (e.g. file names, collaborators, paths) * we don't store service passwords (authentication is handed back to the service itself * we do on-prem installs for corporate customers and we'd consider a version of it for pro as well. We take our first impressions on security and privacy very seriously. Happy to take some feedback on how we can improve trust. Disc: I work for Diamond
- mbesto 9y agoHi! Great reply - this is how you earn early adopters trust. At the potential cost of giving away your "secret sauce", I'd highly recommend being as transparent as possible about what you do and what you don't do to people's data. There's a huge need for your service, but as most of the comments here point out - be f'n careful. > We take our first impressions on security and privacy very seriously. This statement is unforutnately, NOT how you earn people's trust. Presumably your early adopters are technically inclined. Guess what, they don't care if you say "we take it seriously", they want you to show why you take it seriously. Furthermore, any large financial institution (for example) is going to say the same thing. Sure your sales guy says "we take it seriously", but you're not going to win any deals if you don't pass their security audit.
- perfmode 9y agoI'd use this if it was backed by full homomorphic encryption.
- sanxiyn 9y agoI used CloudMagic for this before their pivot.
- socketrocket 9y agoSo they rebuilt Alfred and are charging for it?
- wuliwong 9y agoLooks like it is free for individual users and they have a premium plan for "teams."
- royka118 9y agoI worked at a company building something similar. I do think this kinda product is a bit niche. Certainly when we tried to roll something out similar it was a hard sell as most companies are trying to standardise on one type of cloud storage solution. That being said they do support searching across slack, email and other things. That was something we didn't support and I think that makes this product much more appealing.
- dorian-graph 9y agoA new one of these services pops up every 6 months or so. From what I’ve seen, they don’t stick around.
- sanlyx 9y agoI wonder if by native app they mean an actual native app instead of a fake native app (Electron I'm looking at you)
- sarreph 9y agoWill there come a time when Electron apps are considered native? I'm not being facetious here, just posing the question that if — say — the horrendous performance issues of Electron were ironed-out, or perhaps a similar standard that isn't such a mess, would you consider it less fake?
- bluehatbrit 9y agoWe actually just launched the latest version of something similar. However Gurn doesn't require you to setup integrations with all your cloud services, we're based around the URL - https://www.gurn.io/ https://www.gurn.io/
- owenrh 9y agoI've been using Gurn (yeah I know it's an terrible name!) for over a year. I was initially pretty skeptical but it's totally won me over. It is one of those tools that makes your everyday job way easier. I can type 'go instances' and boom I'm straight where I want to be in the AWS Console. I can't imagine being without it now. It's such a great productivity tool. If they ever shutdown I will build a shoddy version just for myself, seriously.
- juancampa 9y agoHeads up. There's something wrong with your account creation flow. The "/token" endpoint is returning: {"error":{"code":2004,"type":"ForbiddenError","message":"refresh token not provided"}}
- bluehatbrit 9y agoJust remembered I forgot to reply to this, this was resolved just after you mentioned it, thanks!!
- yuchi 9y agoThat logo. Oooooh my gosh. Soooo nice.
- dljsjr 9y agoCtrl+Space is a really unfortunate keyboard shortcut, it's an extremely common shortcut to trigger auto-complete in IDEs and some editors. I downloaded the app to try it out and can't find any way to rebind it, and I don't intend on undoing years of muscle memory in my IDEs… So, feature request I guess?
- ashusyal 9y agoMessage received, dljsjr! Disc: I work for Diamond
- choward 9y agoI can't seem to find the source code.
- fomojola 9y agoReally like the unified search concept: one suggestion would be to add a page with a comprehensive list of the data sources that they support. Right now besides the repeated "Ai" tiles in the background, a disparate collection of logos and the sentence "Google Drive, Gmail, Dropbox, Outlook, and more" there isn't ANY information about what is supported.