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I'd recommend checking out https://www.greplin.com https://www.greplin.com to help search basecamp. I've encountered some of the same issues with their search y

by smanek 16y ago

I'd recommend checking out https://www.greplin.com https://www.greplin.com to help search basecamp. I've encountered some of the same issues with their search you have and Greplin makes things much better! (full disclosure: I work at Greplin ;-)).

bdclimber14 16y ago
I always misunderstood Greplin to be solely a social network search tool. It looks like it is much more than that. Greplin is the YC startup that programmed it in days, right before demo day, correct?
- smanek 16y ago
  Yep, one of our co-founders (Daniel) hacked together the first demo of multi-service search ~2 days before Demo Day when his earlier idea fell through. The team/product have grown quite a bit since then though ;-) To be honest, I'm not really sure where we got the reputation for being a 'social search' tool. We want to help you search your data, wherever it is. We support a lot of applications, including ones that aren't traditionally considered social, like Dropbox, Basecamp, Salesforce, GMail, Evernote, or Highrise. (We also do support more traditionally 'social' apps like Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, or LinkedIn though, since a lot of people's information is in these types of services).
  - bdclimber14 16y ago
    I think that reputation came from a TechCrunch article. Honestly, I thought the idea was a "solution in search of a problem" at first, but now that I see you're really focusing on the real apps (gmail, dropbox, chat, etc.) I "get it." There's been plenty of times I've tried searching for something, but I couldn't remember the medium. One feature you guys really need to do quick (shouldn't take long) is paper-medium search. I'll write notes on post-its, or give some info on a sheet of paper to someone. I should be able to search all this in real-time too, as I write it.

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I'd recommend checking out https://www.greplin.com https://www.greplin.com to help search basecamp. I've encountered some of the same issues with their search y

by smanek 16y ago

bdclimber14 16y ago
I always misunderstood Greplin to be solely a social network search tool. It looks like it is much more than that. Greplin is the YC startup that programmed it in days, right before demo day, correct?
- smanek 16y ago
  Yep, one of our co-founders (Daniel) hacked together the first demo of multi-service search ~2 days before Demo Day when his earlier idea fell through. The team/product have grown quite a bit since then though ;-) To be honest, I'm not really sure where we got the reputation for being a 'social search' tool. We want to help you search your data, wherever it is. We support a lot of applications, including ones that aren't traditionally considered social, like Dropbox, Basecamp, Salesforce, GMail, Evernote, or Highrise. (We also do support more traditionally 'social' apps like Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, or LinkedIn though, since a lot of people's information is in these types of services).
  - bdclimber14 16y ago
    I think that reputation came from a TechCrunch article. Honestly, I thought the idea was a "solution in search of a problem" at first, but now that I see you're really focusing on the real apps (gmail, dropbox, chat, etc.) I "get it." There's been plenty of times I've tried searching for something, but I couldn't remember the medium. One feature you guys really need to do quick (shouldn't take long) is paper-medium search. I'll write notes on post-its, or give some info on a sheet of paper to someone. I should be able to search all this in real-time too, as I write it.