Show HN: Selectric – macOS Search for Gmail, Outlook, Drive, Slack

adityawasudeo | 65 points

In the 90's there was 'Google Desktop' which can do such things.

Still miss it.

reddit_clone | 10 months ago

Reminds me of Greplin / Cue, which Apple bought

https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/03/cue-acquired-for-over-40m-...

skadamat | 10 months ago

What is your monetization plan if it’s currently free? Looks great, but bills need to be paid!

Please consider eventually supporting Fastmail’s JMAP protocol (which they designed as a successor to IMAP).

Edit: https://jmap.io/

toomuchtodo | 10 months ago

Is the source code available somewhere? I really like the app but feel a bit odd about running something with this much access that isn't open source.

smcleod | 10 months ago

I _really_ like this idea.

Is the source code available somewhere?

smcleod | 10 months ago

This is very, very unimportant - but the build in your demo video on the site has a typo in the application name, "Selectirc" instead of "Selectric" (seen in the menu bar)

joshuaturner | 10 months ago

Reminds me of a modern macOS version of “Everything” for windows. Love the concept!

It would be interesting if there was an option to add additional devices, such as a MacBook or iPhone, and search across all of them at once.

Alternatively if you want to preserve isolation perhaps a mobile app would suffice.

If you built an interface that we could plug other platforms into, I could see that being helpful, akin to what raycast has done with their extensions.

vinnymac | 10 months ago

Looks good! Please add either fastmail api or generic imap crawling to your list. :-) Perhaps you could also add support for some kind of generic webhook, or provide an sdk, so that we can add our own custom datasources quickly and easily? You could even licence the sdk in such a way that any implementation was required to be republished...

pomatic | 10 months ago

Can anyone vouch for the privacy and overall trustworthiness of the team? I really love this concept and want to install it immediately!

resters | 10 months ago

Good luck on the launch! Do you plan more connectors? Would love to see Teams, onedrive etc

yrcyrc | 10 months ago

I wonder how these apps secure the “indexed” data on device. These on-device databases are probably ripe for exfiltration by malware to get all of your juicy details in a neat, formatted table/database format.

xyst | 10 months ago

I searched for the name of the company I'm talking with in my next meeting and it gave me a recipe for rice? Company name was unrelated to rice!

ckorhonen | 10 months ago

Could this be a plugin for Alfred? https://www.alfredapp.com/

whalesalad | 10 months ago

If I'm not mistaken, selectric is the name of an Emacs package that adds sound(s?) when you type from some IBM (?) Selectric typewriter.

rgreekguy | 10 months ago

I'm surprised spotlight, with the exception of Slack, doesn't just do this fine enough. What was so frustrating?

brailsafe | 10 months ago

Congrats on the launch! this looks interesting, but how is it different from raycast's search / alfred?

noashavit | 10 months ago

How does the slack integration work? Do we need anything on the Slack side?

reddit_clone | 10 months ago

FYI your Discord invite link in the bottom right corner is invalid!

skadamat | 10 months ago

Any plans to add support for the macOS Mail app?

mh8h | 10 months ago

Discord link is broken.

dvrp | 10 months ago

Interestingly, both IBM and Lexmark trademarks on Selectric™ are dead or expired, and other marks don't conflict.

You likely want to file to claim this.

https://www.trademarkia.com/search/trademarks?q=SELECTRIC&co...

Terretta | 10 months ago