SeekBix

SeekBix landing page
SeekBix Dashboard

Inspiration

I run a small software studio (Scybud) and kept hitting the same problem across my own products: useful information, notes, FAQs, internal docs, scattered across tools with no fast way to find it again. I'd already built a search-first dashboard for one of my other products and knew the pattern worked. SeekBix takes that same idea and builds it as its own standalone tool for any small team, from scratch.

What it does

SeekBix is one search bar over everything you've written down. Add notes, docs, and FAQs, and find any of it instantly, no folders to organize first, no tags to invent, just write it down and search for it later. Every account's entries are private by default; nobody else can see what you've written. Given the two week timeframe, it isn't fully polished, but it's genuinely useful at a minimum viable level: the core loop of writing something down and finding it again works end to end.

How we built it

Solo build, vanilla JavaScript with no bundler, Supabase for authentication and storage. Every entry is scoped to its owner with Row Level Security policies enforced at the database level, so access control lives in the data layer, not just the UI. The interface is edit-first. An entry is either open and editable, or it isn't open at all, keeping the experience fast and uncluttered. No external paid APIs anywhere in the stack.

SeekBix was scoped as a standalone build for the hackathon, with an eye toward eventually folding it into LogHue, an existing product with a similar search first philosophy.

Challenges we ran into

I initially planned rich text or Markdown for entry content but realized partway through that since there's no separate "preview" or rendered view anywhere in the app, formatted syntax would just show up as literal characters on screen, solving a problem the interface didn't actually have. Recognizing that and cutting it in favor of a plain, direct textarea was a useful check on building for a feature's sake versus building for how the tool is actually used.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Getting authentication, Row Level Security, and the full entry create/edit/delete loop working cleanly and quickly. A good chunk of the foundation came together in a few hours rather than the days I'd planned for, leaving real room to focus on the part that matters most: search.

What we learned

One important thing I learned building SeekBix is that you don't need a groundbreaking idea to build something useful. This tool is already useful to me as the developer, and it'll be just as useful to anyone handling notes and scattered information: getting what you're looking for in a few queries, instead of trying to remember where you wrote it down, actually saves real time.

What's next for SeekBix

The plan after the hackathon is to integrate SeekBix into LogHue rather than run it as a separate product. LogHue already has a search-first dashboard, so SeekBix's entry model and search logic fit naturally as an extension of that existing surface instead of asking users to adopt a second tool.