[Cotterzz]

Yep, you were onto something. Everything is so useful, almost vital now. If it were cross-platform and had a text-search option it would be perfect. I think the only other limitation is the columns for search and sort are but a handful. Though index and search would presumably be slower, so it would need to be optional.

[rukshn]

But the question that I wonder is, why even cross platform, online search tools, which search your google drive, one drive, dropbox and show results in one place, even tend to fail,

I have seen few startups even YC backed that didn't make it, I wonder why it's such a hard barrier to entry, even being a common problem everywhere

[thatgurjot]

The only product I have seen do well is Glean [1] but they are B2B so not exactly consumer-grade software.

I think the everyday person works better with the separation of concerns that comes with using multiple services. For me personally, I vaguely recall that I came across this file/info on WhatsApp or on email or on Google Drive. Then I go use the search built into those services and it works well most of the time.

Buzee really helped me with local files (of which I had several thousand) but if you don’t have too many of those, Spotlight and Windows Search combined with some pragmatic file management seems to do the job fairly well.

So the pain point isn’t all that painful and the inertia of switching to a new omnichannel search interface is much higher.

This is why I kept imagining Buzee’s _real_ USP to come from a layer built on top of the file search engine. Imagine a personalised LLM trained on your files and organisation patterns only. Or a service that creates structured data out of the mess of your files. Or a butler service that organises data from every single service you use (goes beyond files to HN, Reddit, Spotify, Netflix, Strava etc.)

We’ll probably get something like that in a couple of years with a strong vendor lock-in. A privacy-first open source alternative seems difficult.

[1]: https://www.glean.com/

[giancarlostoro]

I feel like its very easy for companies to say no to paying for something they already live without. Unless you can prove it increases productivity.

[akoboldfrying]

Everything plus massively long, descriptive filenames are the sweet spot that I'll never leave.

Want tags? Just stick the tag in the filename. Now it's a tag!

[bastijn]

Everything has text search. Either through advanced search menu or through content:”text” - though not an indexed search. Or did you mean OCR text search on images?