I built Gerev, an open-source search engine for workplace pages, conversations, & docs.
Finding information you need is hard. Native search on Confluence, Slack and Notion is terrible. Also, valuable knowledge is usually scattered among multiple apps.
I built it as entirely self-hosted, no company data is stored on a stranger's cloud, like things should be.
Gerev allows you to find:
- Slack conversations.
- relevant answers from Confluence or Google Drive.
Or easily bring up important docs in real-time during meetings.
I believe private data should remain private. All too often, AI products send private data to cloud-based LLMs. I believe that AI should assist users without breaching their privacy.
I'm Yuval,
I have severe ADHD which lead to me being kicked out of highschool.
Built a few popular open-source projects, but never something commercial.
what's the hook?
very technical, born with no innate social norm capabilities.
Expect stuff like door-to-door skyscraper salesmanship, in-person hazzard marketing, etc... crazy stuff :)
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.
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!