The makers of Index are hoping they’ve created the one app you’ll must entry all of your information, notes and hyperlinks.
“We’re giving people a full control panel for the digital world,” founder Brian Cox informed me.
Cox mentioned he truly developed Index for his personal private use 5 years in the past. And whereas he would often give associates a replica, he was too busy growing apps for different corporations (by his Sierra Space Agency) to do something extra.
Finally, a number of months in the past, Cox and the remainder of the company determined to show Index into an actual client product — a course of that Cox mentioned was accelerated by their acceptance into the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF, the place they only launched Index onstage.
In Cox’s phrases, the issue that Index is tackling is the truth that “our stuff is all over the place.”
Sure, there are many similar-sounding companies on the market, but there are nonetheless loads of instances after I’m studying an article on my pill after which battle to recollect what it was after I’m on my laptop computer, or after I notice I forgot to ship an necessary doc from my laptop computer to my smartphone. In reality, these numerous note-taking, link-saving and document-sharing apps may be difficult too, after I battle to recollect the place particularly I saved one thing.
With Index, along with taking notes within the app itself, it can save you your content material from any system with simply the faucet of a button — although the service is formally launching at this time, it’s already obtainable in iOS, Android, Chrome, Firefox and internet variations, with plans for Mac and Windows.
Of course, saving stuff is simply helpful if yow will discover it later, so every part will get saved in Index by an organizing precept of hashtags. You also can get a bit of fancier by not simply saving particular person internet pages but in addition internet searches, or by creating a piece with the most recent content material (like the most recent TechCrunch articles) from a sure feed or API. And you possibly can type by all that content material utilizing instructions like “/everything,” which exhibits you every part you’ve saved.
If a few of these concepts sound like they had been impressed by Slack, Cox doesn’t attempt to conceal it: “Something about them rubbed off on me so strongly. It’s a work chat app that’s so simple, so delightful.”
Over time, Cox is hoping Index turns into increasingly central to customers’ workflows. He mentioned he already makes use of the app as a private dashboard to handle his day, beginning with enterprise duties like checking e mail, then shifting on to checking the climate and checking the information. He additionally has a dashboard for managing every part associated to getting Index prepared for launch at Battlefield.
And whereas this began out as a private undertaking, Cox mentioned it’s time to show Index right into a venture-backed enterprise. The app is on the market without spending a dime to everybody initially, however if you wish to save greater than 237 objects, you’ll must pay $2 monthly.
Why 237? Cox mentioned it’s a “purposely random” quantity that his group settled on as the purpose the place persons are seeing “the real value” of Index, and he estimated that it will take “three to six months of regular usage” earlier than somebody reaches that restrict.
Post-launch, the Index group can be including extra options round collaboration, and likewise seeking to prolong the platform by permitting customers to create their very own instructions.
Eventually, Cox needs Index to change into a platform for intelligence amplification — particularly, know-how that, in distinction to synthetic intelligence, enhances human capabilities. That may sound fairly grandiose for a productiveness app, however the topic clearly fascinates Cox.
“We basically want to use all the possible tools to put machine learning on top of the human brain, not beside it,” he mentioned. “As time goes on, what we’re thinking every morning is: What can we do to further empower people, not to make another external intelligence stronger?”
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Index presents at Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017
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Index presents at Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017
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Index presents at Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017
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Shawn Carolan at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017
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Jeff Clavier at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017
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Patricia Nakache at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017
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