Hey everyone! I'm Amogh and I've built eesel AI.It's like ChatGPT over your company knowledge (yet another one?!) - but with a twist. Instead of relying on APIs to integrate with your applications, you simply use our browser extension to add relevant pages as "Knowledge". Then, you can chat over that.Whether it's a Google Doc, Notion page, help docs, or any other website - you can add it as...
We've been in this space for a lil bit too with eesel (https://eesel.app) and it's really cool to see more people tackling these problems. It's about time we fix this.
Keen to be inspired and learn! :)
I felt that personally working on eesel [1]. We kept a tight focus on the problem (making it easier to refer back to your work more easily) and it's become far more than we could've expected. Ironically, the classic "is this a company or a feature" question might actually be a validation of keeping scope.
The only caveat I'd add to the post is that you should try to solve only one problem, but you should spend time exploring before hand to discover the broader set of problems and prioritise carefully.
This is so spot on! We're having similar learnings with eesel [1] too. Work is far too scattered across apps. Thanks for sharing your journey so far and congrats on the launch!
eesel works with anything in the browser and the intent is to be generic. You can add any app like so - https://intercom.help/eesel/en/articles/3936045-how-to-add-a...
Does that makes sense? Also out of curiosity, what apps do you use?
1. To edit the rules for a Folder, open the Folder and head to "Add pages" > "Automatically". We've heard it a few times that discoverability of this isn't great, and it's definitely something we should improve.
2. You can use eesel without having it in your new tab. Here's a help article on that - https://intercom.help/eesel/en/articles/3728989-how-to-remov...
3. To clarify, everything is local by default and only pages you explicitly share by adding to a Workspace, a shared Folder and so on are shared.
4. I imagine we'll want to support eesel profiles at some point to better separate personal and work things, but one workaround till then is to have different Chrome profiles and install eesel on both.
Let us know if you have any other thoughts that pop up!
Love that idea, it's something we've been floating around ourselves. We're not sure if the problems around that are painful enough for people to change existing habits (is it annoying enough for you to switch apps?), but let us know if you have any thoughts on that!
Foreign founders can make a Delaware C Corp. We used Stripe Atlas for that and it did the job well! From there, it's the same process.
When a document is shared with you in eesel (say, your teammate adds it to a team folder), even if you haven't seen the document before, it'll appear in your eesel. It's a way to discover what teammates are up to.
The idea is that everyone can automatically push their work into shared folders, and build a team 'source of truth', without the overhead of maintaining things.
Does that makes sense?
Everything runs fully locally by default, but to enable features like sharing pages with teammates, we need to have servers. The content of your pages is still only stored locally on your browser, no exceptions. We run through the details in our privacy policy - https://www.eesel.app/privacy
Fun fact - we did consider being totally serverless and having some distributed, peer-to-peer database, but there were too many unknowns to go down that path. Maybe one day!
The feed works by pushing new pages you or your teammates make and share. For instance, if you make a new Notion page and add it to a Folder, it'll get pushed to other teammates who are members of the Folder. There's no automatic way to notify teammates of an update for now, but we're working on something related to do that right now.