Ryan Hoover

Shelf - A better way for teams to manage & share files, links & more

Shelf is a content sharing platform that helps distributed teams organize, declutter, and find their most important resources in one place.

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Yura Riphyak
Great product! Very intuitive approach to the UX, which in my opinion is the key to success. Will definitely recommend to my colleagues who, like me, suffer from the information cluttering.
Colin Kennedy
@yurij_riphyak thanks so much for the kind words. If you have any questions that relate to your specific info clutter pain points, let me know and I'll do my best to offer a few suggestions.
Karim El Rabiey
I've seen a few of these platforms, but for something that asks to house your company's content they almost never address any security concerns. Any difference here?
Tobias Jaeckel
@kelrabiey Hey Karim, We understand that security is very important for a solution that stores important content. So, we do include security considerations in all of the functionality we built. I added a some further details in my reply just above. Please let me know if you have any additional questions that you'd like answered.
Theron Shreve

It's been a great organizational tool for my own use, and it makes it easy to distribute specific items to different groups of other folks. Very effective and flexible overall.

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Great interface, easy to use, I've found the tagging, search, and organizational tools are vastly better than other tools I've tried

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A dedicated phone app would be ideal, it I have found it pretty simple to use on my mobile devices in its current form

Maura Ginty
How is this different than Box?
Colin Kennedy
@maura_ginty thanks for the question! It's a good one...something I honestly was hoping someone would ask. Let me start by saying that Shelf isn't really an OR technology. It's not Shelf or Box, Shelf or Dropbox, Shelf or Google Drive, etc. It's a modern knowledge management tool that helps extend the functionality of these core storage/collaboration platforms. Here are a couple of specific ways we're different: 1. Shelf isn't an aggregation tool - it sits on top of other aggregation tools, and makes it easy to surface the most important content in these larger repositories. If used properly, platforms like Box inevitably become cluttered, and finding the right version of the right file quickly becomes a challenge. Shelf surfaces that which is most important. 2. We have an excellent search/browse experience - we offer a variety of intuitive ways to locate any piece of content, regardless of what you do (or don't) remember about it. Our filters were designed to fit the way that the human brain actually works when trying to recall something. Our search looks at the text inside of documents and images and finds things that would otherwise be buried. In summation - you use Shelf to find stuff fast. 3. Diversity of content - Shelf has a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox known as the Collaborative Web Clipper. It's like a bookmarking tool, only much better because it has the organizing tools and information architecture of the Shelf web app behind it. So you can take pretty much anything important you find on the internet, and with a click, capture it so it is now accessible to you and the subset of people you want to share it with. Say goodbye to "Hey, check out this link!" email chains. If you'd like further clarification on any of this please let me know. It's a question that we get all the time, so I have no shortage of things to say about it.
Nenad Moslavac

This is much needed and wanted product, our team use it very much

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great organizing tool and simple to onboard, reliable

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not sure if there is an app for mobile phone and it would be awesome to introduce "siri" like function - to search by voice stored files

Maksym

want to try it ASAP

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Seems like it's a new solution to problem of containing resources in one place

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none

Pavle Krivokuća

Used as a part of beta. Even dough we are a small team Shelf helped us to be more organize and find what we need in whole bunch of docs.

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Easy to use, straight forward, boosts productivity and kills time you loose while trying to find that something

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More integrations

Gaia Montelatici

just keep it up!!!!

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It solved a lot of problems - searching for docs was made so easy; collaboration with the team members a strength; super easy to handle!

Cons:

phone app?

Oisin Margey

Loved that i could try it for free and is seriously good value once you need to add more users

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Easy to use, flexible and great customer support!

Cons:

Just keep keeping it simple

Alex Genadinik

I am a fan of this product and this type of products

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Easy to use

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Not sure