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How does your product compare to https://haystack.it https://haystack.it?

MaxKeenan 4y ago
Not familiar enough with them to say -- doesn't seem to be publicly available.
nativeit 4y ago
Here at Haystack, we provide an industry leading cross-platform application to help obfuscate, disguise, and confuse your data that increases security by decreasing its ability to be found in a search.
yuvalsteuer 4y ago
Hi I'm Yuval, one of the devs behind haystack, I messed around with needl + other alternatives (e.g unleash, getcommande, glean). I talked to Max as a user over needls privacy policy. The biggest difference is that haystack gives you search results relevant to your query. Just like google. needl and alts are more of a spotlight/raycast alternative, great as a productivity tool, they require you to know exactly what you're looking for beforehand, in my opinion which leaves more to be desired as a search product. Another big differencee is around data privacy, haystack is open, free and most importantly self-hosted. Also we allow building low code custom data connectors into haystack! It'll become publicly available next month here: https://github.com/haystackoss/haystack https://github.com/haystackoss/haystack Thanks :)
- ushakov 4y ago
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  - dang 4y ago
    Having just looked at the data, it's pretty clear to me that this entire exchange was fake. We ban accounts that do that. Please don't do it again. It's particularly uncool that you're doing this, given the number of times that you posted at length accusing us (falsely) of nefarious actions in moderating this site. Btw, I took special care to make sure that your own startup got a nice amount of exposure on HN, despite the fact that the posts were obviously ringvoted. We make a point of not holding grudges and try to make sure that good, interesting content gets seen. But please stop using manipulative promotional tactics either for your own stuff or your friends.
    - moneywoes 4y ago
      So he made a fake account to ask the question then replied with his original account?
      - dang 4y ago
        No, I meant that (assuming I'm reading the data correctly) the exchange was orchestrated and not at all organic. I don't normally post publicly about these things but when people try to mess with another startup's launch thread, it gets my goat (YC-related or not), and to use manipulative tactics while doing it goes over my threshold for saying something.
        yuvalsteuer 4y ago
        I'm not sure of the data, I was linked this by a friend, I'm not really sure how a proprietary saas company ends up as the good guy, while we're trying to ensure the next big search platform remains open, end up as thugs. It seems the main mods problem with what I did is plugging our github url, which made it obvious I diverted attention from needl's launch, mistake I made. I'm not deleting any comments, because I prefer context to mod interactions stand in broad daylight. I'm truely sorry, I like this forum, mods here are awesome.
        dang 4y ago

Not familiar enough with them to say -- doesn't seem to be publicly available.

Here at Haystack, we provide an industry leading cross-platform application to help obfuscate, disguise, and confuse your data that increases security by decreasing its ability to be found in a search.

yuvalsteuer 4y ago

Hi I'm Yuval, one of the devs behind haystack, I messed around with needl + other alternatives (e.g unleash, getcommande, glean). I talked to Max as a user over needls privacy policy. The biggest difference is that haystack gives you search results relevant to your query. Just like google. needl and alts are more of a spotlight/raycast alternative, great as a productivity tool, they require you to know exactly what you're looking for beforehand, in my opinion which leaves more to be desired as a search product. Another big differencee is around data privacy, haystack is open, free and most importantly self-hosted. Also we allow building low code custom data connectors into haystack! It'll become publicly available next month here: https://github.com/haystackoss/haystack https://github.com/haystackoss/haystack Thanks :)

ushakov 4y ago
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- dang 4y ago
  Having just looked at the data, it's pretty clear to me that this entire exchange was fake. We ban accounts that do that. Please don't do it again. It's particularly uncool that you're doing this, given the number of times that you posted at length accusing us (falsely) of nefarious actions in moderating this site. Btw, I took special care to make sure that your own startup got a nice amount of exposure on HN, despite the fact that the posts were obviously ringvoted. We make a point of not holding grudges and try to make sure that good, interesting content gets seen. But please stop using manipulative promotional tactics either for your own stuff or your friends.
  - moneywoes 4y ago
    So he made a fake account to ask the question then replied with his original account?
    - dang 4y ago
      No, I meant that (assuming I'm reading the data correctly) the exchange was orchestrated and not at all organic. I don't normally post publicly about these things but when people try to mess with another startup's launch thread, it gets my goat (YC-related or not), and to use manipulative tactics while doing it goes over my threshold for saying something.
      - yuvalsteuer 4y ago
        I'm not sure of the data, I was linked this by a friend, I'm not really sure how a proprietary saas company ends up as the good guy, while we're trying to ensure the next big search platform remains open, end up as thugs. It seems the main mods problem with what I did is plugging our github url, which made it obvious I diverted attention from needl's launch, mistake I made. I'm not deleting any comments, because I prefer context to mod interactions stand in broad daylight. I'm truely sorry, I like this forum, mods here are awesome.
        dang 4y ago