![]() To that end, we built the Command Bar (Command Line + Search Bar). We thought this was possible because the difference in UX between desktop and cloud app environments was so acute: the desktop OS is principled, integrated and fast, while cloud apps are latency-laden and confined to crowded browser tabs. Our goal was to take a leap in speed with which people can control their computers. However, we wanted Slapdash to be useful for anyone, not just an employee at a big company, so we turned our attention to building a new experience on top of the file system. People don’t search as much as they think they do, and most have their unique information foraging habits that work well-enough. While the low-latency file system is interesting, we learned that being able to search and navigate is not enough utility for a single individual. As a result, it's much faster to browse Google Drive in Slapdash than in the Drive interface itself. What we discovered is that by applying optimizations to how we store (sharding & colocation) and retrieve data (batching & coalescing) we could achieve an almost zero-latency experience when browsing application data. It’s not zero-access yet, but we’re building in that direction. Slapdash employees can't see the contents of what we index since everything except the reverse index is encrypted. Of course, the data we store is encrypted on disk, in-transit and in the data store. We then built a graph database on top of Postgres, added a data access layer with graph semantics, with GraphQL API delivering the data to the client. We built an import system, which effectively solves a graph replication problem (translating the structure of the app data to the Slapdash graph and keeping it in sync). We modeled our file system as a graph and we built our architecture to match, with a focus on performance. It turns your working world into a database you can easily query. You connect an application like Drive, or GitHub to Slapdash and we give you a way to search and browse the data in a uniform interface (kind of like Finder). The first thing we built was a low-latency file system for cloud apps. Even for a small team like us, our work spans Drive, Dropbox, Figma, GitHub, Asana, Notion, Docusign, Slack, Quip, etc. #SLAPDASH NEWS AT FIVE CODE#What’s the history of this code abstraction? What are my colleagues working on? What’s the story with this customer?īuilding such a system today means connecting people's cloud apps, because that's where most of the work is happening today. Common questions in day-to-day work are easy to answer. Companies like Facebook and Stripe build a class of tools internally that unifies all the employees and any collaboration apps, so you can find anyone or anything the company knows. When we left our big company jobs, one of the difficult things to part with was the tooling. We have built a uniform, low-latency data browser (kind of like Finder) as well as a unified command line-like interface (kind of like Spotlight) for the applications you use at work. Slapdash lets you work across all of your cloud apps at desktop speed, sort of like an OS for cloud apps. ![]() Theatrical smoke effects.I'm Ivan, one of the founders of Slapdash ( ). Some elements may be scary for children under 5 years of age. Forget what you think you know about shadow puppets, buckle-in and tear open your imagination for an epic journey with two brothers as they battle the bad guys, and find strength in each other, at warp speed. With their funny and hugely imaginative approach to puppetry and theatre effects, Bunk Puppets have earned international acclaim. It’s a crazy shadow puppet universe, all made up from bits of rubbish.Īward winning Bunk Puppets, creators of ‘ Swamp Juice’ and ‘ Sticks Stones Broken Bones’ are back at Monkey Baa with their incredible production. ![]() Using items from a cleaning closet, Bunk Puppets’ Hamish Fletcher imagines up old-fashioned theatre magic using only old boxes, bubble wrap, drinking straws, tennis balls, ping pong bats and old toys. Join us these January school holidays as we present Slapdash Galaxy and the story of Sam and Junior, two brothers who must flee their planet and embark on an epic quest across the galaxy. ![]()
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