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Collections (YC S12) is remaking the most basic part of the OS: The Finder

by tonyx on 12/14/12, 5:51 PM with 16 comments

  • by MatthewPhillips on 12/14/12, 8:12 PM

    I wish them luck in their endeavor. My impression is another aggregator of proprietary web services isn't a need people have. Perhaps I am wrong. Others have tried this, albeit possibly not with the file manager angle, and it doesn't work out. I fear it is even more difficult today than it used to be as most web services do not want to be aggregated and fight against it. Nevertheless, this is a YC company and I hope they succeed.

  • by rwmj on 12/14/12, 7:08 PM

    I wish you better luck than Eazel:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eazel

    Edit: I didn't realize they went public with such a ridiculous business plan. Dot com madness indeed ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/08/22/hertzfeld_spills_all...

  • by larrik on 12/14/12, 7:21 PM

    OS X has become "the OS" now?

  • by cadr on 12/14/12, 6:25 PM

    I wouldn't call "the finder" the most basic part of the OS...

  • by wingspan on 12/14/12, 8:37 PM

    I am not sure how iOS or Android handles the file system (officially), but I do know that Windows 8 could use a clean, simple, touch-friendly File Explorer replacement.

    I don't believe that the growing scheme of ignoring the file system, especially on mobile devices, and in some cases even forcing you to use cloud storage (to share data between apps, for instance) is an effective solution in the short-term.

  • by spo81rty on 12/14/12, 10:32 PM

    The ability to search all the assets on my computer and from common online services is a great idea.

  • by bherms on 12/14/12, 7:34 PM

    What about Alfred or Quicksilver? How is this different and why do you need a round of funding to support it?

  • by jjtheblunt on 12/14/12, 9:45 PM

    That's a really, really OS-ignorant title.

  • by jsnk on 12/14/12, 8:06 PM

    This is a great idea and I can't wait for some innovation in this area. But two requests to founders is that don't make this a social ads crapware.

    1. Don't do any Twitter or Facebook shares or likes or bullshit of any sort related to social. I want absolutely no garbage from Twitter or Facebook in my local hard drive.

    2. Don't display any ads whatsoever. Price it and ask the user to buy the software. I think Sublime Text 2 does this really well.