Shadow IT Scan
Web and SaaS
shadow it scanning
SHOW HN2024
How HN took it
5 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.19.
Design: 0 for, 4 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful, accessible security tool that most companies don't know exists
From 3 comments
This is really cool!! Always excited about increased accessibility of security tools. This used to require jumping through a bunch of hoops in the past to find out, so most…
bdno86 on HNIndeed, when I learned about it I felt stupid for not having somebody run a regular report. Everybody talks about Shadow IT but most companies have a decent option to uncover a…
PhLR on HNThis is very, very cool! Great work guys!
650REDHAIR on HN
Simple to use and powerful compared to alternatives
From 1 comment
In a previous role many years ago I used a tool called Netskope which monitored Firewall traffic and it was excellent at identifying almost every web related service being used.…
NoPicklez on HN
Objections
Hard dependency on Slack limits usefulness and growth
From 3 comments
This severely limits the usefulness of a product like this. Core aspects of the product like workflows and task management should not be tied to a chat vendor in my opinion, and…
haswell on HNIt sounds like you may have found your niche with existing Slack customers and if that works for you that’s great. I don’t agree that this is a “strength”, because it limits the…
haswell on HNA lot of companies are MS O365/Teams shops.
akeck on HN
Slack-required pricing is confusing if Slack is not used
From 2 comments
> AccessOwl calculates billing based on the number of active Slack users, excluding Single-Channel Guests and service accounts, as this is usually the closest measure to your…
moxli on HNI don't think that's possible, the "Start Trial" button immediately redirects to Slack. This does seem like a weird restriction. Nothing about the product otherwise seems…
jorams on HN
Logo resembles other brands
From 2 comments
Seeing the logo made me wonder if this was a project spun out of Tripadvisor, they're very similar.
ctippett on HNEven more confusable with especially the previous logo (but also current branding) of sendowl.com.…
3np on HN
Requests
Support for non-Slack chat tools as an alternative
From 1 comment
Depending on the point of view it can also be a strength. Actually many of our customers like that we're in Slack because their people are already there: - no login required to…
mathiasn on HN
Support for Microsoft Teams environments
From 1 comment
A lot of companies are MS O365/Teams shops.
akeck on HN
Questions
How does pricing work if Slack is not used?
From 1 comment
> AccessOwl calculates billing based on the number of active Slack users, excluding Single-Channel Guests and service accounts, as this is usually the closest measure to your…
moxli on HN
Alternatives named
Netskope firewall traffic monitoring
From 1 comment
In a previous role many years ago I used a tool called Netskope which monitored Firewall traffic and it was excellent at identifying almost every web related service being used.…
NoPicklez on HN
Browser extensions for discovering shadow IT
From 1 comment
Indeed, there are some great alternatives for discovering Shadow IT, some with more or less overhead (i.e. browser extensions that nobody wants to install).
PhLR on HN