Turn your new tab into a personalized dashboard in 60 seconds. Take Snapshots of any app or website, pin them to your new tab, and keep track of everything you need in one place. Plus automatically keeps the Snapshots up-to-date.
Hi Product Hunt! I’m Dan, cofounder and CEO of Plus. We’re really excited to launch the Plus New Tab on Product Hunt today and to hear the community’s feedback.
First, what is Plus and how does it work?
💻 The average business today uses ~100 different apps, but it’s a mess to keep track of information across 100 different tools. Staying on top of everything requires constantly navigating between apps and websites on a regular basis.
💡 Plus lets you take live Snapshots of any app (think of a screenshot that automatically stays up to date) and embed them in the productivity tools you use every day.
✅ This lets you bring all your tools into one place as easily as taking a screenshot.
What about the Plus New Tab?
🖥️ The new tab view is the most accessible part of your browsing experience, but it's also often very underutilized space.
✅ The Plus New Tab lets you pin your live Snapshots to a feed in your new tab. So all you have to do to access your personalized dashboard is open a new tab to stay on top of everything.
Try it out and ask questions!
🆓 Plus is free to use while we’re in public beta. Eventually we’ll add premium features, but the core functionality will always be free.
🤝 What we ask in return is your help and feedback as we continue to build and improve on the product experience.
🗣️ Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
@danielxli Congrats on the launch Dan! I spend 10-15%+ of my time logging in and opening new tabs to see updated info - this is a game changer! Are you gonna come out with Firefox extension soon?
Haha yes that's perfect. This is the tool for you, @swapdp_01!!
No firefox extension yet but listening to customer feedback on what browsers people use. Right now, we support all Chromium browsers, so that includes most of the browsers our users use (Chrome, Edge, Arc, Brave).
I love the idea! Congrats guys on the launch. Probably quite helpful and make the new tabs less boring. Will definitely try it and give you some feedback from my side then.
@huy_doan_quang thank you for the message! We think so - everyone has been using our new tab consistently since we launched internally. We look forward to your feedback!
👏 Dan, congrats on the launch! Plus seems like a fantastic productivity tool for managing numerous programmes. How does Plus protect the safety and privacy of the data recorded in the real-time Snapshots?
@mian_azan thanks for the comment and the question! To ensure a high degree of security we follow enterprise-grade security practices and build products with control and transparency in mind. We use the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256) encryption algorithm for data at-rest and Transport Layer Security (TLS) for data in-transit. In addition, we have achieved SOC 2 Type II level compliance.
@danielxli This is a great idea.. a truly custom data aggregator for the individual for any website... simple to use and seems to work out of the box with little to no effort! Great job! I am quite concerned about how you are able to get those screenshots: Are you storing request header data made by my machine on your servers?
Hi @john_carmichael — I'm an engineer at Plus. We don't store headers directly but we do store identifying information in order to reproduce our user's sessions during screenshot capture. This does place a lot of responsibility on our shoulders — and is something we take extremely seriously. We go out of our way to make sure privileged data is secured at both organizational and technological levels. At a high level, we enforce common OWASP best practices like the principle of least privilege, we avoiding key-reuse, and use full end-to-end enterprise-grade encryption in transit and at rest. We do not store any user login credentials. You can find a bit more about our security model here: https://www.plusdocs.com/security
Wow, I had been considering creating a similar product a while back because it is incredibly useful for organising screenshots of specific websites for record-keeping purposes, like crypto portfolio pages or data feed pages. Thank you so much for providing such an excellent product!
This is such a helpful tool! Plus New Tab makes it easy to keep track of everything I need in one place. I love that I can take snapshots of my favorite sites and apps and access them quickly. Highly recommend! 👍
@serjobas thank you for the support! Internally we use it to keep track of everything, so we're glad to see others getting the same value out of our product!
Congratulations on the launch of Plus New Tab! It looks like a great way to make the most of your new tab and stay organized. I'm interested to hear how others are using it.
Thanks, @usamaejaz! 🙇
I personally use it to snapshot a Daily Deal website that's popular in my country — which I can then see every time I open a new tab without needing to directly visit the website. Since I open a lot of new tabs throughout my workday, I'm guaranteed to see when any new limited products or hot deals show up! 😂
Congrats on the launch, Awesome idea it will make it easy to monitor various dashboards at a single click personally it is something I always needed.
For a while, I thought about building a unified dashboard but this makes things very simpler. Eagerly looking for the Firefox extension
@dineshan_sithamparanathan thank you for the comment! Yes the idea is to help unify everything into one place very simply. We’ll keep you posted on Firefox!
Thank you, @dineshan_sithamparanathan! We'll do a Firefox extension once we see there's demand for it. (I'm also a Firefox user, so am looking forward to that day as well!)
The customizable dashboard and built-in productivity tools are great features that can help users stay focused and organized. Best of luck to the Plus team!
Hey there, I was checking out your product and I think the feature that captures updated screenshots of webpages is really cool! It could be super useful for tracking price changes, monitoring news updates, and keeping tabs on social media engagement.
I was wondering if you're planning to add any additional features to make it even more valuable? Maybe something like real-time alerts or a comparison tool? For instance, a way to look at how metrics have changed, or for example to look at a website that estimates app downloads and get updates on that, etc.
Also, I'm curious to know if you've received any feedback from users on how they're using this feature, and if there are any specific use cases that have surprised you?
Lastly, I'm interested to know what your long-term vision is for this product, and how you see this feature fitting into that vision?
Thanks for creating such a cool product and looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
Hey @daveneur — Thank you for leaving such a thoughtful comment. We really appreciate it! 🙇
This is perhaps a partial answer to your questions, but, our roadmap is quite fluid at the moment as we iterate through all the customer feedback and asks that we've been receiving. However, yes; we're definitely working on improvements and new features. The ability for users to subscribe to change notifications for their snapshots has come up a few times and is something we've noodled on.
Businesses, small to large, use a lot of disparate, typically completely disconnected tools. Long term, we want to make it easy for any user to integrate and mash up data from all of their tools, to combine their data, and look at and share it all in a single place. If you're curious, we go into some of this a bit more on our website (with example videos) here: https://www.plusdocs.com/use-cases
@daveneur thank you for your thoughtful note and questions, really appreciate it! I second Marco's response - one of the things we're particularly excited about is the breadth of use cases that our product has.
In terms of how this feature fits in - we recognized that the new tab is the most easily accessible place on our users' browser, so it seems like a great place to let our users start consolidating all those disconnected tools there!
@danielxli Wow! I am so happy guys for the launch! It's a huge day for such a long-taking project :) It took me a little bit shorter to build mine and so you must be even more happy to see it launched than everytime I release an update to mine! Congrats once again!
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Wow. This is a game changer. Being able to connect all the different dashboard etc into one is amazing.
This new breed of tools which create a reactive stream of really anything will change the world.
Congratz Marco and team on this launch!
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