Sara Tandowsky

The New GitBook — Your team's go-to for technical knowledge management

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GitBook combines powerful docs with AI-powered search and insights to give technical teams a single source of truth for their knowledge. Effortlessly create, surface and improve documentation in the tools you use every day — such as Slack, GitHub and VS Code.

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Sara Tandowsky
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Hey Product Hunt! I'm Sara, and I'm the CEO of GitBook, a knowledge-sharing platform built for technical teams. This is by far our biggest launch of this year, and I'm super excited to share it with you all! But first, a little bit about how we got here… Ever since we first started GitBook (in 2014!) it’s been our goal to be the best platform for creating and collaborating on amazing documentation. That started with open-source public docs, but recently we’ve been using our experience to improve how teams handle technical information internally, too. And what we’re releasing today is a huge step forward on that path — with new features and deep integrations built specifically to help engineering teams document, improve and discover internal knowledge. Oh, and we’ve also got a pretty cool new brand and UI to go alongside it. We hope you love it as much as we do! Anyway, let’s talk features: 💬 Turn Slack conversations into documentation — The new GitBook Slack bot can take a thread, extract the useful info, and turn it into docs. Plus, it can answer questions using information in your knowledge base — just ask. 🛠️ Create docs while you code — Narrate a quick guide in VS Code and GitBook will combine your actions and voiceover into documentation. This one can answer questions, too — just like our Slack bot. ✂️ Introducing snippets — GitBook AI takes unstructured information from those integrations, extracts the important parts, then creates a snippet — a structured page in your docs that’s easy to read and digest. 💡 Maintain your docs with content insights — Insights now help you identify pages in your knowledge base with contradictory information, or duplicated content. So you can find outdated pages and quickly fix them at scale. ✨ A completely new UI design — We’ve redesigned our entire UI to match our new brand. It’s cleaner, faster, and more modern 💅 These are the headlines, but over the past few weeks we’ve also made a ton of QOL improvements in the app. From better performance, to improved comments, real-time collaboration and more. But all this is just the start. We have a lot of big plans for what comes next. We hope you’ll join us for the ride! For now, I'll just say thanks so much for your support today 🙏 we’d love to hear your feedback, so please drop questions and thoughts below! The team will be hear all day. Enjoy! Sara, Samy, and the whole team at GitBook
Pete Fennell
@sara_tandowsky1 I was checking the new pages out yesterday, and looks like a giant leap forward!! Just a quick question regarding the slack bot thread, that extracts data to create docs... At the moment we utilize other messaging apps to do this, but the page indexing can take a few minutes to 60 minutes etc, will that be the same via the slack bot also? Or would there be a possibility to 'in the future' to bypass page indexing. As we find the GitBook Lens AI WAY!! much better than just using GPT models.. And to be able to extract doc data and instantly use it in a conversational AI format would be amazing.
Samy Pessé
@sara_tandowsky1 @flochat Indexation of snippets captured from Slack or VS Code should be much faster to be indexed in AI search (a few seconds max). You can basically type "@gitbook save" in Slack, and then ask a question about it right away. We are working on improvements to index page content faster in AI search :)
Eugene Yarovoii
@sara_tandowsky1 @samypesse Congratulations on your launch! Looks impressive! Wishing you luck for future projects. Followed you on Twitter :)
Victor Goossens
@sara_tandowsky1 When it comes to the Content Insights is the data a rolling category, or does it all just tally up forever? For instance, when it comes to page ratings, I really want to know what the ratings on a particular page look like from the date it was updated, rather than know the rating from the entire timeframe the page has existed.
Samy Pessé
@sara_tandowsky1 @victor_goossens, For now, it's not time-based (it shows all the ratings since the page has existed), but it's something we'll improve!
Ilya Chv
Hi! Congrats on renew! Can i integrate GitBook into ours team documentation in Notion? We store public API data there and would like to automate the update process. Or any tips to do this with your platform?
Udit Akhouri
Been using this for a while... Gitbook is a life saver.. Let me tell you the best part of this.. It has a little analytics center which you can use to find what people are looking for in the documentation.. Supervised is used by 12K+ users globally and I was able to find that most people were stuck at the upgrading part because it had much more visits than any other page.. Total life saver for devs.. Love this!
Shane Mullan
This looks like it will be great for my internal docs, dealing with multiple codebases and keeping all the docs up to date can be pain. I'll check this out.
Aptivi
I used GitBook almost a year ago, and I found that it's the most comfortable place for writing my software and library documentations. It allowed me to organize parts of the documentation seamlessly. This rebranding of GitBook has improved the appearance of the user interface. I would like to thank the GitBook team for taking their time to achieve this huge milestone, because now it contains AI-powered tools!
Addison Schultz
So excited to see this live!!! And have been using it with some personal projects lately too. Finally a way to document Visual Studio Code snippets in a heartbeat 💓
Geri Máté
Big fan of Gitbook here! We use it for our technical documentation (https://docs.dyrector.io/) I like the new look of the tool a lot and I think it's an awesome tool worth checking out when you're writing docs - both external and internal use. The cool thing about Gitbook is that they support open source projects, that's why we're able to use it for free. How cool is that! Cheers!
Suganthan Mohanadasan
Absolutely love Gitbook. Best documentation tool out there. Just one negative: they never let you hide the branding logo from the page. Defeats the purpose of white labelling in my opinion.
Yatendra Kumar
Awesome work Sara, I love gitbook. Using it for build the best handbook for flutter developers(flutteruniversity.gitbook.io). Super excited especially for AI insights.
Narayana Aaditya
We recently moved all our docs to GitBook, loving it so far. Congrats on the launch!
Geo
The best product ever for knowledge-sharing & documentation! The new Gitbook seems incredible, super proud to be one of your partners with Guideflow 🔥Cheers from Paris! @addisonschultz0 @saratandowsky @samypesse
Medet Can Gündüz
Congrats on the launch! So many talented folks I know are on GitBook, no wonder it's a great release. Also the iconography and typography :chefs-kiss:
Stephen Ashby
So excited to see this launch go live! There are ton’s of great features, but I've been using the Slack integration _so much_ already. Quick example: We had a discussion about how we want to name specific things, and after a quick conversation we made a final call and I saved the thread to GitBook — then just copied the summarized information into our Glossary. Saved me a ton of time! 👍
Dennis Pilarinos
Do you still require / promote Gitbook on the documentation site even after they've paid for the product? That was a show stopper for us.
Sara Tandowsky
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@dennispilarinos we have something coming soon for this and more customization options but in the meantime we can remove this for your account if you send us a message. Feel free to email me directly sara@gitbook.com and we’ll get you set up.
Dennis Pilarinos
@sara_tandowsky1 Thanks - appreciate it. When we tried Gitbook a few months ago, the documentation was unclear on the removal of the banner. We escalated through support, and, at the time were told that removal of the banner wasn't possible - even for and annual / pre-paid plan. We cancelled our subscription and built our own docs site. This new release and your comment inspires some confidence to re-evaluate in the future. Thank you again and congrats.
David Hughes
This is a huge update for the GitBook brand, website and product! Everything looks so fresh and modern. Congrats to the entire team for making this happen! 👏🏻 The new features are so useful when I'm working on our internal and public docs. Excited to see what comes next!
Isha Varma
A seamless way to create, access, and enhance documentation. Congrats on the launch to the whole team! 🙌🎉
Scott Riley
Yessss, love this! Congrats to everyone 💖
Rodrigo Castro
So happy to see this launched! Especially excited to share the Slack bot experience that has been a lifesaver. It has been helping us communicate faster in situations that require it, while also taking all the knowledge from that to our internal documentation for future use. With AI-powered search, this makes things so much easier to find as well 💙
Jurre Houtkamp
Congrats all, looks great!
Hugo Maestá
It looks so polished! 👌 Great work everyone!