Show HN: I built Haystack – your own google for scattered workplace knowledge
by yuvalsteuer on Hacker News.
Hi all! My name is Yuval I’ve been a software engineer for a few years now. A few weeks ago I was scrolling through confluence pages trying to
find ssh connection details to our integration machine for 40 minutes
straight, later I discovered my co-worker slack’ed me the ssh
connection string two months ago. So the same weekend I started working on haystack – a search engine
for workplace apps. that enables you to search slack, confluence,
jira, teams, sharepoint, github, and email in one place. I wanted it to support natural language queries so a query like: “how
to connect to integ2 machine?” yields: ssh -i private.pem ubuntu@ec2-integration2.eu-est-1.compute.amazonaws.com

I decided that user data should be stored locally, so all logic is
completely client-sided (including the NLP model) – I don’t want
access to your internal docs, thanks. I rolled it out to my co-workers a week ago and they thought it’s a
hit, so I’m planning on releasing it publicly on March 2023. But if you want to try it out before then it’s
available here: https://haystack.it . Thanks!