I built a tool to search all my messages (Slack, LinkedIn, Gmail, etc.) in one place because I was losing my mind.
Hey everyone,
I’m working on Unibox (https://unibox.today) and I just opened up the public waitlist for the beta.
The core reason I built this is "search fatigue." I’d remember a conversation about a specific budget or a bug, but I couldn't remember if it happened in a Slack DM, a Telegram group, or an email thread. I’d spend 10 minutes jumping between apps just to find one sentence.
I wanted a way to treat all my communications as one searchable database.
The main things it does:
Smart Search: You can search across 9+ platforms (Gmail, Slack, Telegram, LinkedIn, GitHub, Linear, etc.) from one bar. It uses semantic search, so it actually understands the context of what you’re looking for rather than just matching keywords.
Unified Context: When you're looking at a message, it shows you the person's full profile—every interaction you’ve had with them across every platform is right there in one timeline.
Workflow Management: You can turn messy threads into a Kanban board or a table view. It feels more like a CRM for your actual life than a traditional inbox.
AI Assistance: It handles things like reply suggestions and quick summaries so you can get through the "noise" faster.
Status: It’s in beta right now. I’m focusing on making the search as fast and reliable as possible before the full rollout.
If you’re someone who handles a lot of different projects and people across different apps, I’d love to have you try it out and tell me what’s missing.
You can join the waitlist here: https://unibox.today
Would love to hear your thoughts or any specific integrations that would make your life easier.
The product is not something I need at the moment, but I checked out your site and the demo really impressed me.
It's very well thought out and clearly reflects your approach.
Easily one of the most thoughtfully designed demos I've seen.
Many people, myself included, could learn a lot from your approach to building demos.
The search fatigue problem is very real — especially once Slack, email, LinkedIn, and project tools all become part of the same mental workspace.
I like how you are framing this less as another inbox and more as a single source of context. The unified timeline + semantic search combo feels especially powerful for founders and operators who live inside conversations.
Curious to see how fast search feels at scale, but this definitely solves a pain I have felt more than once. Nice work building this in public.
Give a try to my Reddit Extension. It's a Chrome extension called Pulse of Reddit that basically acts like my own alert system for Reddit.
Anytime someone posts something with keywords I care about like 'looking for a designer' or 'best SEO tool' it pings me right away. It’s saved me so much time and helped me hop into threads while they’re still fresh.
If you’re tired of manual digging and want to catch those conversations early, I’d really recommend giving it a look.
It’s free to start and super simple to set up.
Website:
pulseofreddit.com
thank you! may I ask what kind of email clients you are using now? There are Spark, Canary Mail, Missive...these are quite common as well. Would love to know your feedback on them if you are using and why they are not solving your problem
Give a try to my Reddit Extension. It's a Chrome extension called Pulse of Reddit that basically acts like my own alert system for Reddit.
Anytime someone posts something with keywords I care about like 'looking for a designer' or 'best SEO tool' it pings me right away. It’s saved me so much time and helped me hop into threads while they’re still fresh.
If you’re tired of manual digging and want to catch those conversations early, I’d really recommend giving it a look.
It’s free to start and super simple to set up.
Website:
pulseofreddit.com
"Losing my mind" — exactly.
It's not just the 10 minutes wasted searching. It's the invisible friction, the cognitive drain that kills deep work. I've been building for months to solve a similar kind of fragmentation in my own workflow.
When search becomes a chore instead of a tool, building your own solution stops being a side project — it becomes a survival strategy.
Give a try to my Reddit Extension. It's a Chrome extension called Pulse of Reddit that basically acts like my own alert system for Reddit.
Anytime someone posts something with keywords I care about like 'looking for a designer' or 'best SEO tool' it pings me right away. It’s saved me so much time and helped me hop into threads while they’re still fresh.
If you’re tired of manual digging and want to catch those conversations early, I’d really recommend giving it a look.
It’s free to start and super simple to set up.
Website:
pulseofreddit.com
Love the UI / flow , and look - and the idea is killer! I have Gemini sub and Gemini basically is my AI for Gmail and all my Google apps- but it'd be awesome to also be able to tie in discord, and other 3rd party apps - social media etc - I think its all about how many APIs can be crammed under the hood, though - am I right? How do you find rate limits works for each product - to keep things in sync and information available. Also which AI do you prefer to use for being the brain of your app - to handle summaries and context? great job!
Give a try to my Reddit Extension. It's a Chrome extension called Pulse of Reddit that basically acts like my own alert system for Reddit.
Anytime someone posts something with keywords I care about like 'looking for a designer' or 'best SEO tool' it pings me right away. It’s saved me so much time and helped me hop into threads while they’re still fresh.
If you’re tired of manual digging and want to catch those conversations early, I’d really recommend giving it a look.
It’s free to start and super simple to set up.
Website:
pulseofreddit.com
Keeping the latest conversations in sync is not hard. The main problem is backfilling historical messages, which I will only allow users to import a certain date range. I am still exploring what the ideal approach would be that users would love to follow.
If you have any suggestions on how you want it to be delivered, I am glad to hear your feedback!
For AI, it is built on top of https://openrouter.ai/, so each AI use case will be implemented differently with the most optimized model. For example, Gemini for AI inbox/summary, while ChatGPT for AI response.
This looks really promising! The unified search across all platforms and semantic understanding is a big time-saver - especially for anyone juggling Slack, email, and other apps at once. I like the workflow and Kanban integration too; turning messy threads into actionable items is a smart approach.
Give a try to my Reddit Extension. It's a Chrome extension called Pulse of Reddit that basically acts like my own alert system for Reddit.
Anytime someone posts something with keywords I care about like 'looking for a designer' or 'best SEO tool' it pings me right away. It’s saved me so much time and helped me hop into threads while they’re still fresh.
If you’re tired of manual digging and want to catch those conversations early, I’d really recommend giving it a look.
It’s free to start and super simple to set up.
Website:
pulseofreddit.com
Thank you for your kind feedback! Glad to see that you have the same pain. If you are interested in the product, feel free to leave an email in a waitlist here: https://www.unibox.today/
I expect the first release will be around in the next month.
Give a try to my Reddit Extension. It's a Chrome extension called Pulse of Reddit that basically acts like my own alert system for Reddit.
Anytime someone posts something with keywords I care about like 'looking for a designer' or 'best SEO tool' it pings me right away. It’s saved me so much time and helped me hop into threads while they’re still fresh.
If you’re tired of manual digging and want to catch those conversations early, I’d really recommend giving it a look.
It’s free to start and super simple to set up.
Website:
pulseofreddit.com
Exactly what i was looking for. thanks.
Give a try to my Reddit Extension. It's a Chrome extension called Pulse of Reddit that basically acts like my own alert system for Reddit.
Anytime someone posts something with keywords I care about like 'looking for a designer' or 'best SEO tool' it pings me right away. It’s saved me so much time and helped me hop into threads while they’re still fresh.
If you’re tired of manual digging and want to catch those conversations early, I’d really recommend giving it a look.
It’s free to start and super simple to set up.
Website:
pulseofreddit.com
That's great to hear that! I noticed that a lot of freelancers / indie hackers have multiple different emails, and it was painful to sync all the conversations.
Hope this helps! If you have any idea / feature request, feel free to leave it here.
Search fatigue is such a real problem — I'm building something similar for tech news (aggregating 50+ sources into one searchable feed), so I totally get the frustration of jumping between apps.
The "unified context" feature sounds powerful. Curious how you're handling the cold start problem — when a user first connects all their platforms, do you backfill historical data or start fresh? That initial "aha moment" of finding an old conversation feels crucial for retention.
Give a try to my Reddit Extension. It's a Chrome extension called Pulse of Reddit that basically acts like my own alert system for Reddit.
Anytime someone posts something with keywords I care about like 'looking for a designer' or 'best SEO tool' it pings me right away. It’s saved me so much time and helped me hop into threads while they’re still fresh.
If you’re tired of manual digging and want to catch those conversations early, I’d really recommend giving it a look.
It’s free to start and super simple to set up.
Website:
pulseofreddit.com
For a cold start, the platform provides an option that allows users to select the range that they want to import to the Unibox's inbox. So it's flexible. Users can choose to import only 1 day, 1 month, or 1 year of data. Or can start fresh.
Smart approach — letting users control the import range removes the "this will take forever" anxiety while still enabling that "aha moment" when they find something old. Good luck with the beta!
Give a try to my Reddit Extension. It's a Chrome extension called Pulse of Reddit that basically acts like my own alert system for Reddit.
Anytime someone posts something with keywords I care about like 'looking for a designer' or 'best SEO tool' it pings me right away. It’s saved me so much time and helped me hop into threads while they’re still fresh.
If you’re tired of manual digging and want to catch those conversations early, I’d really recommend giving it a look.
It’s free to start and super simple to set up.
Website:
pulseofreddit.com
The "search fatigue" problem is so real. It's not just about finding messages - it's the mental overhead of remembering WHERE to look.
The unified context feature is smart. Context switching between apps kills productivity, and having everything about a person in one place changes how you think about relationships, not just conversations.
I've heard several founders on the Public SaaS Builders podcast talk about building tools that scratch their own itch. The best products often start this way - you understand the pain deeply because you live it every day.
Curious: how do you handle privacy concerns? I imagine some users are hesitant to connect all their messaging accounts to one place.
The Kanban view from threads is a clever touch. Most "unified inbox" tools stop at search and miss the workflow side entirely.
I deal with a similar fragmentation problem with data formats — different APIs return JSON in wildly different structures, and you end up building mini-parsers everywhere. The semantic search approach you mentioned probably helps a lot with inconsistent message formats too.
What's the latency like on the search? That's usually where these tools get painful at scale.
The “search fatigue” problem you’re describing is very real, especially once conversations are fragmented across Slack, email, Telegram, and LinkedIn. Treating all communications as a single searchable knowledge layer makes a lot of sense. One concern I’m curious about is trust and privacy at scale: when you unify so many sources, how are you thinking about access control and accidental over-surfacing of sensitive context? Also, have you seen early users value the unified timeline more than the AI features, or is it the other way around?
Give a try to my Reddit Extension. It's a Chrome extension called Pulse of Reddit that basically acts like my own alert system for Reddit.
Anytime someone posts something with keywords I care about like 'looking for a designer' or 'best SEO tool' it pings me right away. It’s saved me so much time and helped me hop into threads while they’re still fresh.
If you’re tired of manual digging and want to catch those conversations early, I’d really recommend giving it a look.
It’s free to start and super simple to set up.
Website:
pulseofreddit.com
How hard would be to add Teams?
Give a try to my Reddit Extension. It's a Chrome extension called Pulse of Reddit that basically acts like my own alert system for Reddit.
Anytime someone posts something with keywords I care about like 'looking for a designer' or 'best SEO tool' it pings me right away. It’s saved me so much time and helped me hop into threads while they’re still fresh.
If you’re tired of manual digging and want to catch those conversations early, I’d really recommend giving it a look.
It’s free to start and super simple to set up.
Website:
pulseofreddit.com
Do you think there are demand for that? I am building the product on top of my own pain and because I don't use Teams in my daily basis so I am not sure how many users would like to have that feature.