Thanks for hunting us, Brad, and hello Product Hunt!
We built Binocs to make finding the files, attachments, and conversations you're looking for faster and easier than ever.
Binocs lets you connect your Gmail, Dropbox, Drive and other cloud accounts to create your own personal search engine.
Once you’ve found what you’re looking for, Binocs becomes a productivity tool, putting a whole batch of common next steps right at your fingertips. You can open the file, copy the Share Link, go to the original email, show the file in Finder, all kinds of great stuff to help you work faster and smarter. We basically want your coworkers to think you’re some kind of hyper-efficient superhuman with a steel-trap memory.
We also give you the ability to create your own Channels. Channels are saved searches that allow you to stay current on important topics across all of your cloud services. If there are specific projects you're tracking, you can create a Channel to notify you whenever a file changes or a conversation mentioning that topic happens anywhere in Gmail, Dropbox, etc. It doesn't matter if a team member made the change – you'll never miss it.
Ok, PH. Take a look and let us know what you think!
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@brhea At Vaultedge we are building a similar product and currently in private beta. All the best for your launch.
Reminds me of Greplin, which I'm sad shut down years ago. I use so many services, and having something that searches across all of them is so variable. Really excited for this!
@brhea Make sure you have an API, if possible! That way anyone can create "connectors" to push data into Binocs, since it'd suck to have missing files :)
@jmacias Thanks Jaime! Definitely. We've all got several accounts to keep up with and that's one of the most common ways to lose a thread or attachment, so we wanted to be sure to support multiple accounts from the start.
@h_moyers Hannah, you just described exactly why we think Binocs needs to exist! Thanks for your interest! I'll keep an eye out for your name in the beta list.
This is a hugely needed service, but what's the privacy implication of giving you access to gmail, dropbox, etc?
Won't you have access to all that data?
How do you keep employees from seeing it?
How do you protect it from being leaked?
Have you, Brian, ever looked at the content of someone's data on Binocs?
What does your 'god mode' give access to?
@andrewwarner Thanks so much for this question, Andrew. It's an important one, and obviously something we take extremely seriously. You can learn about our security precautions here: https://www.getbinocs.com/security
@geediab Hey George! Right now, we're focusing on getting all your cloud content covered. Local files are on our radar, but it's an additional engineering challenge to solve the upstream to Binocs from your machine. Not ruling it out, but right now, cloud is our focus. Hope that makes sense, let me know if you've got any other questions! Happy to chat!
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