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Rohan Chaubey

Needle - Enable AI-search across all your data in seconds

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Connect your private data sources like Google Drive, Gmail, Confluence, Notion to Needle's Knowledge Threading™ platform and get instant answers to all your questions. Plus, use Needle's API to build context-aware AI agents. Available in MCP, DSPy, Vercel.

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Onur Eken
Maker
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Hi Product Hunt! 👋 We’re incredibly excited to launch Needle, a platform that simplifies how teams access and manage knowledge across their favorite tools. In today’s world, information is scattered across many platforms: Google Drive, Gmail, Slack, Notion, Jira and more. We waste hours each week searching for the right document, the right message, or the right insight. That’s why we built Needle: to help you find, organize, and act on your knowledge effortlessly. 🧵 Needle is an AI-powered platform designed to: 1. Connect Everything: Seamlessly integrate your favorite tools and unify your data. 2. Chat with Your Data: Ask questions and get answers instantly, across all tools like Google Drive, Gmail, Slack, Notion, Jira, Confluence, and more. 3. Automate Workflows: Create AI-powered workflows for common tasks like sales outreach or internal reporting. 4. Build AI Agents: Use Needle’s SDK & API to build apps that fit your unique use case. Why Teams Love Needle ⏱️ Save Time: Get back an hour every day by finding what you need instantly. 🤝 Empower Teams: Enable effortless collaboration and smarter decisions. 📈 Boost Sales: Increase your email reply rates with AI-personalized outreach. How You Can Benefit Join Our Affiliate Program: Earn 20% for every successful referral. Find your link in the settings page in Needle. Your feedback and support are what fuel us to keep improving Needle. We can’t wait to hear your thoughts and see how Needle transforms the way you work. Together, let’s make 2025 the year of smarter work! Thank you for being a part of this journey. 💥 Warm regards, Onur & Jan
Rohan Chaubey
Hunter
@oeken @jan_heimes @jaredpolivka Many congrats on the launch! :) Excited to hunt Needle at PH today! :) 🤝 How I met the founders: Jan reached out to me a few weeks ago seeking feedback for their product. I am happy they are launching today. I also had a conversation with Jan and his co-founder Onur. They shared what they are building and why, it convinced me to hunt the product. 🚀 What is the product: Needle allows you to connect your private data sources like Google Drive, Gmail, Confluence, Notion to Needle's Knowledge Threading™ platform and get instant answers to all your questions. Plus, use Needle's API to build context-aware AI agents. 👍 Why I like it and endorse it: One of the most sophisticated tools that I have seen in a long time. Try it out yourself and chat with your documents. Additionally, build your context-aware Agents with Needle. Cool tool! Give Needle a spin. I am stoked to share it with you today! :)
Sam @CRANQ
It makes a huge amount of sense, we want data & we want it fast without the hassle of searching around etc. It seems you & the team Onur, have done a fantastic job, glad to hear that I can be far more objective with my needs!! Best of luck w/ the launch to you & the team.
Onur Eken
Maker
@cranqnow Thank you Sam! We're glad that we share the same vision, Needle can accelerate both human and AI agents.
Sam @CRANQ
@oeken & it can really move the metaphorical needle!
Onur Eken
Maker
@cranqnow 😄 as a matter of fact - dad jokes are very popular within our team.
Jan Heimes
Maker
@cranqnow Love the comment XD
Vio from Selftalk
I love this ... @win32hack what do you think, can we use this?
Jan Heimes
Maker
@win32hack @viorica_vanica Also you can explore the tool on your own with our forever free version. Happy to discuss your use case any time over call :) Let's connect on LinkedIn.
Elena Oprea
@win32hack @viorica_vanica @jan_heimes my instant question was about privacy? How so I make sure my business data is private?
Jared Polivka
Maker
@win32hack @viorica_vanica @jan_heimes @elena_opreag Great question Elena! Needle is CASA Tier II, GDPR and CCPA compliant. Our organization is actively working towards achieving SOC 2 Type II compliance. We use the latest security practices and technologies to ensure that your data is safe with us. We encrypt your data at rest and in transit. Regarding personal information, we have implemented reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information. However, no security system is impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee that information on our Services will not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by a breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. If you have additional questions or feedback, feel free to email us at support@needle-ai.com You can test out Needle for free here: https://bit.ly/needle-ai
Kate Ramakaieva
Hey team! Congrats! Would it be safe to say it’s an alternative to Zapier, Make, etc.?
Onur Eken
Maker
@kate_ramakaieva Hi Kate! Needle would be a great complementary tool to automation platforms as a building block for semantic search. However in future, we'll release features that allow taking actions in plain natural language. Book a call with us, we can discuss more.
Raghavendra Devadiga
Needle gave me a smarter way to manage and interact with my data across tools and helped me automate my workflows.
Jan Heimes
Maker
@raghavendra_devadiga4 Happy to hear, that you enjoy the tool and it helps you! Happy to support your specific use case!
Zara Zaman
SO excited to see this launch. Go Needle! Knowledge management revolution is long overdue 🚀
Jan Heimes
Maker
@zara_zaman Thanks so much! Indeed we think the same. The best part is, that Needle helps you not only to do Knowledge Management, but also build your own context aware agents based on your private data.
Nicolas Le Roux
I got the chance to try Needle for a side project. Very good product, with top-notch documentation!
Onur Eken
Maker
@nico_lrx Happy to hear Nicolas! Looking forward to see what you build with it.
Ashish Parmar
Congrats on launching Needle! The problem of scattered information across tools is so relatable. The idea of chatting with your data and automating workflows sounds super useful. Great job and good luck!
Jan Heimes
Maker
@ashish_parmar13 Thanks Ashish, we appreciate your comment. Always the happiest, when users love our product!
Marcus Freeland
Needle is simple to use and has a straightforward API for integrating. Everything you need to build an agent and keep it informed!
Jan Heimes
Maker
@marcusfreeland Appreciate that Marcus. We are happy to explore Needle further together with you!
Alexander Farr
Congrats on the launch! How do you help a remote / distributed team?
Jan Heimes
Maker
@alexanderfarr Thank you so much! Absolutely. We collaborate extensively with remote and distributed teams ranging from 10 to 1000 employees to optimize their workflows and enable seamless collaboration.
Jared Polivka
Maker
@alexanderfarr one thing that we've noticed is that remote teams working in different time zones have specific knowledge that is sometimes locked up within individual talent or documented somewhere that is not intuitive. Let's say you work in New York and several of your colleagues work in Berlin. It is afternoon, and your colleagues are currently asleep while you are working. 
 However, you need an answer to a question or you need context on a past decision. You are hitting a roadblock and need answers now to move forward on what you are working on. Before Needle, you had the following options: 1. Wake up your colleague in the middle of the night and have a conversation. 2. Spend 1-4 hours searching through documentation on Slab, in Slack, in Google Drive, in Jira, etc. 3. Wait until tomorrow to ask your colleague, work on something else (perhaps lower in priority) in the meantime. Now, you have a fourth option: Ask Needle (which is connected to all of our company data) and get the answer fast. You save several hours of time, get the answers you need and your colleagues sleep soundly :) This is one of the ways we help remote / distributed teams.
Stefan Gehler
The last days, I came across needle by chance and tried out this incredibly interesting website. I realized that I find it incredible what you can do with this website. I am convinced that with the right use of this software, you can save a lot of time when searching and sorting all kinds of objects and I am very excited about the future of needle.
Onur Eken
Maker
@stefan_gehler Thanks for your feedback Stefan! It's 21st century edition of industrial revolution we're living and we want to change the way everyone works.
Leonardo Marcon
Congrats team! Great product, keep pushing!
Jan Heimes
Maker
@iamnotkingkong Thanks for the comment! We will keep pushing to make Knowledge Management and building context aware AI Agents a blast in 2025.
Max Comperatore
no more azure search
Jan Heimes
Maker
@maxcomx Thanks for your comment!
Iris Matt
Very impressive idea! Could really change the way I manage my data every day.
Jan Heimes
Maker
@angelina__ashley Happy to hear that! Would love to see how you use Needle in your day to day life and talk about current challenges that you are facing to potentially automate.
Khaula Ihtisham
@oeken Hi Congratulations on the launch of Needle—what an exciting and much-needed innovation in today’s cluttered work environment! 🎉 The idea of unifying scattered information and empowering teams to find insights instantly is truly transformative. Kudos to you and the team for tackling such a universal pain point! I’m curious about a couple of things: - How does Needle handle security and data privacy, especially given the sensitive information that often resides in tools like Gmail or Slack? - With the ability to create AI-powered workflows, what’s been the most unexpected or creative use case you’ve seen users implement so far? Looking forward to seeing Needle thrive and transform how teams work. Best of luck on this exciting journey! 🚀
Onur Eken
Maker
@khula_ihtisham Great questions Khaula! 1. We use industry-best practices for security. Needle is CASA Tier II certified and currently we are running SOC 2 Type 2 certification process. Convenience of cloud always comes with a tradeoff. For those who are more strict, we deploy a dedicated version of Needle in private cloud environments. 2. We've seen some users wanted a fully-fledged life assistant so they uploaded ALL their documents, local + cloud etc. Typically however, we see our users want to derive new content from existing content, for example automating literature reviews in academic research.
Yatheen Brahma
Congrats, Needle team! 👏 its ability to build AI agents using the SDK and API is a standout feature. For a tech team like ours, this opens up exciting possibilities to create custom workflows tailored to our needs. i like it perfecttt A quick question: What’s the learning curve for integrating Needle’s SDK into existing projects?
Jan Heimes
Maker
@yatheen_brahma Hi there Yatheen, we designed Needle in a way, that we focused on a great UX and DX making it as easy as possible to integrate Needle into existing projects. Happy to chat over LinkedIn about details.
Ramin Jamali
Great work guys! Looking forward to find the Needle in the Haystack. Just have some custom datasets, hence I thought can Needle integrate with less common tools or custom applications?
Jan Heimes
Maker
@mamutrer Thanks for the comment. We appreciate that you like Needle and find it useful. Indeed Needle can. We have dedicated connectors. Additionally we also have a connector SDK. Allowing to build your own custom connectors. On the other hand all our services are also able to be used via the API, so you could write a a custom cron job to send requests to the Needle API. Does that answer your question? Check our docs: https://docs.needle-ai.com/
Blair
Launching soon!
Congratulations on the launch of Needle! It's so easy to relate to the issue of having information scattered all over different tools. The concept of being able to chat with your data and automate workflows seems incredibly practical.
Jan Heimes
Maker
@dejavideos Thanks a lot, we thought the same, that is how we also came up with Needle. Making people spend more time on what they love doing instead of searching for information.
Mikita Aliaksandrovich
Launching soon!
Congrats on the launch of Needle! It’s great to see how your platform helps teams quickly access and manage information across different tools. The AI-powered search and automation features will save a lot of time. Wishing you all the best with your launch!
Jan Heimes
Maker
@mikita_aliaksandrovich thanks for the comment Mikita. Great that you enjoy using Needle! What data sources do you normally work with?
Harriet Kügelgen
Great work guys, quick question on the connectors, which I think could really be an enabler. What is the process to connect my data sources to Needle?
Jan Heimes
Maker
@harriet_kuegelgen Hi thanks for the question. We have developed Needle in a way to make it as easy as possible to set up connectors. Hence you can just connect your data to your collections with a few clicks and the oAuth should be set. Does that answer your question. We are also always happy to help you if you have more questions.