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24 alternatives to Medullar

Hi HN, I want to share a project I’ve been working on for the past year: Medullar. It’s a platform for teams to search, organize, and extract actionable insights from documents, files, and conversations across many different tools. *Background:* I started this after years of frustration managing files and discussions scattered across cloud drives, email threads, chat logs, and more. Searching for the right bit of knowledge in Slack, Google Drive, or Dropbox was a daily pain, especially as projects scaled and teams grew. Existing “unified search” products either ignored security, required…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Medullar launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Slack▲2,714

    Be less busy. Real-time messaging, archiving & search.

    2013 · slack.com · its alternatives →

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    After months of hard work, I'm thrilled to announce the launch of Chat Channels and Direct Messages on The Drive AI. Why Chat Channels? During my master’s program, managing extensive research, project discussions, and documents across platforms like Google Drive, Zotero, and Slack was a real challenge. Finding past discussions on Slack became harder as projects progressed, leading to inefficiencies and repeated questions. Imagine a platform where every research paper, project file, or document seamlessly integrates with persistent chat channels—a system that combines the best of document…

    2024 · thedrive.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN – I built Dock after years of team chat frustrations as a founder. Free forever for teams up to 5. Unlimited search, unlimited history. No "upgrade to see messages older than 90 days" nonsense. Built for teams who work both async and sync/real-time when it matters. runs on SOC 2 infra, compliant, secure and in-transit and at-rest encryption, runs on Cloudflare. Early stage – would love feedback from anyone who's felt the same pain.

    Jan 2026 · getdock.io · its alternatives →

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    Buzz▲161

    Your people, your agents, your project — all in one place

    Jul 2026 · buzz.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Spaces▲133

    Slack's first acquisition: all-in-one documents for teams

    2014 · slack.com · its alternatives →

  6. 6IB

    Hi all! A few weeks ago I was scrolling through confluence pages trying to find ssh connection details to our integration machine for 40 minutes straight, later I discovered my co-worker slack'ed me the ssh connection string two months ago. So the same weekend I started working on haystack - a search engine for workplace apps. that enables you to search slack, confluence, jira, teams, sharepoint, github, and email in one place. I wanted it to support natural language queries so a query like: "how to connect to integ2 machine?" yields: ssh -i private.pem…

    2023 · haystack.it · its alternatives →

  7. 7AD

    We (Nick, Dens, Denzell, Fede, Drew, Aaryan, and Daniel) have been building HN Discovery, a discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News, in our spare time for the past 6 months and are excited to show it! It adds the following features relative to the existing keyword search interface and preserves the existing ones: - no-JS version (hnnojs.trieve.ai) - site:{required_site} and site:{negated-site} filters - public analytics - LLM generated query suggestions based on random stories - recommendations - dense vector semantic search - SPLADE fulltext search - RAG AI chat - order by…

    2024 · hn.trieve.ai · its alternatives →

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    Slack▲85

    Be less busy. Real-time messaging, archiving & search.

    2014 · slack.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9SH

    I built this tool to help me find interesting discussions on Hacker News. I love reading HN discussions almost more than the articles themselves. However, I found that full text search, although highly performant, is not always good at surfacing interesting discussions on a certain topic -- especially if you don't know what to search for exactly. I built this by scraping the most recent ~6 million posts (that's about 2 years of history) and putting the resulting posts and their vector embeddings into Postgres. Let me know what could be improved, and if you'd like a more detailed writeup of…

    2024 · searchhacker.news · its alternatives →

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    Slack▲93

    Platform for team communication

    2015 · slack.com · its alternatives →

  11. 11SP

    Step into the future with Searchbase Cloud's AI-enhanced search capabilities. Effortless to integrate, intuitive to use, and built for insightful discoveries. Transform your data into action with the smartest search on the market. Join the revolution.

    2024 · searchbase.dev · its alternatives →

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    TeamInk▲70

    Create, search and assign documents directly from Slack

    2016 · teamink.co · its alternatives →

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    Everything that would be here is in the README. I hope this gets big, it has tons of potential.

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    This is a low-level opensource library I developed for my own use and decided to share, as it makes it possible to process large checkpoints of neural networks without renting high-RAM instances, on a regular PC. It replaces torch.load() with a custom function that produces a dictionary that materializes tensors on the fly. Compared to other solutions it doesn't require sharding or re-encoding checkpoints and uses them completely as-is. It is a foundation to make it possible to run inference and compress language models and other large models one layer at a time - in principle, even one…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Dear HN Community, I am a long time fan and first-time contributor. I just launched a developer focused semantic search platform and wanted to share it with the community. The idea is simple: upload structured or unstructured documents, select the fields you want to index and tag as metadata, and instantly get a clean search API you can use in your own app. Here is what it currently supports: - Manage your own tenants and projects - Upload .json and .txt files (support for .pdf, .docx, .xlsx, .yml, etc. coming soon) - Expose 3 APIs: search, upload document (embeddings), and delete document -…

    2025 · aisearch.vpuna.com · its alternatives →

  16. 16UI

    Hey everyone! I am excited to share updates on four of my & my teams' open-source projects that take large-scale search systems to the next level: USearch, UForm, UCall, and StringZilla. These projects are designed to work seamlessly together, end-to-end—covering everything from indexing and AI to storage and networking. And yeah, they're optimized for x86 AVX2/512 and Arm NEON/SVE hardware. USearch [1]: Think of it as Meta FAISS on steroids. It's now quicker, supports clustering of any granularity, and offers multi-index lookups. Plus, it's got more native bindings than probably…

    2023 · usearch-images.com · its alternatives →

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    Slack▲31

    Platform for team communication

    2015 · slack.com · its alternatives →

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    Slack▲13

    real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams

    2014 · slack.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I'm excited to share our latest project - QueryPal! It's a Slack app designed to enhance your team's productivity by providing better, faster answers directly in Slack. QueryPal is trained on your company documents and features seamless integration with Slack, Notion, Confluence, Google Drive, OneDrive, Jira, Monday, and more. You can install QueryPal from our website or join our community Slack to try it out here : https://www.querypal.com We'd love your feedback or any questions you might have. Let's chat! :)

    2024 · querypal.com · its alternatives →

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    Excited to share something I've been building recently called CandySearch. I made it to solve a personal pain with a SaaS product I built, which was that we were always monitoring Reddit and Twitter to see if anyone had mentioned keywords indicating they were looking for us. Before, we had to go manually respond to posts, often missing good mention opportunities. Would love for HN folks to try it and let me know what you think!

    2025 · candysearch.vercel.app · its alternatives →

  21. 21PA

    Hey HN, we’re the team at Morph Labs and we’re excited to release Phorm (https://phorm.ai), a fast, simple, and SOTA codebase answer engine. You can search over up to 8 repositories in almost any language, and Phorm can comfortably handle repositories up to ~200K LOC each. It is free during our initial research preview. Phorm’s Advanced Indexing combines synthetic data with static analysis of the code graph to improve the relevancy of search results by up to 3X. We’re proud to launch with featured Advanced Indexing support for a select group of leading open-source projects: - Nomic…

    2024 · phorm.ai · its alternatives →

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    FlockerHub—think GitHub, but for data.

    2016 · king138.asia · its alternatives →

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    I vibe-coded a small project that turns the “Ask HN: Who is hiring?” thread into searchable job data using OpenAI, PostgreSQL, and Metabase. It pulls the thread using the Hacker News API, uses GPT to extract fields like company, role, location, salary, and contact, stores everything in PostgreSQL, and spins up Metabase so you can explore and search the results. Right now it runs locally, but would anyone be interested if I built this out a bit more and made a public dashboard?

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Searching for messages? Search smarter, not harder !

    2018 · its alternatives →

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