| I built haystack - natural language search engine for workplace technical knowledge. 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 jenkins second integration machine for 40 minutes straight, later I discovered my co-worker slack'ed me the ssh connection string *two months ago*. A week later I started working on haystack - a search engine for workplace apps.. It enables you to search slack, confluence, jira, teams, sharepoint, github, and email in one place. It supports 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
Privacy?haystack is self hosted and stores user data locally, it has a completely client-side version, and a a self-hosted docker container version - only you have access to internal docs, I didn't want to deal with security compliance headaches caused from storing user data in the cloud + I don’t want your internal docs/messages. 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. *Early access* More technical details are available on github, code released on March 23’: <https://github.com/haystackoss/haystack> If you want to try it out before March 2023 - Available here <https://haystack.it> |