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Slab 2.0 - The knowledge base that democratizes knowledge

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Slab is the knowledge base entirely focused on just being the very best knowledge base for your entire team. Choose the best tools for the rest of your productivity stack and Slab will integrate with them, including Slack, Asana, GitHub, and dozens more.

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Jason Chen
Maker
Hey Product Hunt πŸ‘‹, We launched Slab on Product Hunt in 2018 and we're thrilled to be back! A lot has changed in two years, and today, we're launching Slab 2.0, along with our Free plan. We've always believed that writing is the best way for teams to share and retain knowledge and ideas. It can be prepared and repeated perfectly to a perpetual audience, unlike notes or conversations. In today's remote-work world, even the smallest teams can start writing and benefit immediately. We also believe that great products must have fanatical focus on their core purpose. To that end, Slab is only trying to be the best knowledge base for your entire team. We're not trying to be your issue tracker, CRM, personal notebook, or any other tangentially-related tool. Instead, we integrate with those tools and won't lock you into any particular platform or ecosystem. And we're not just for your product or sales teams. Slab is indeed powerful enough for engineers (check out our Markdown shortcuts!), but we've intentionally built it to be approachable and intuitive for anyone. It's the only way teams can truly have one source of truth. What's new in Slab 2.0? ✏️ Tons of editor enhancements πŸ’¬ Revamped commenting and πŸ™Œ πŸ₯³ πŸš€ reactions βœ… Content ownership and verification πŸ” Private topics and guest accounts πŸ”Ž Search results from all your integrated tools πŸ“š Library of templates and examples at https://slab.com/library/ You can check out the full changelog at https://updates.slab.com and details on new pricing plans at https://slab.com/pricing. As a special thank you to the Product Hunt community use our promo code PHSLAB20 to get 30% off for 3 months! This is available for new signups this week so don't procrastinate! Thank you again for everyone's continued support. We wouldn’t be here without you!
Lewis Chung
Hey @jhchen -- congrats on the launch! My team switched to remote-only this year due to COVID. We now have to write more things down than ever so naturally very curious about Slab. How does Slab help teams like ours build a culture of documentation?
Jason Chen
Maker
Hey @_lewisf thank you πŸ™ First, we built Slab to be super easy to use, technical teammates or not, to remove as much friction as possible to contributing. Our editor makes writing look good by default so people can focus on the content, not fixing each other’s formatting. Second, we spent a lot of time on search and discovery so when you write something, your teammates will actually find and get value from it β€” promoting a virtuous cycle of actually wanting to keep content up to date and contribute mote. We've seen a lot of success here from users, especially with teams when leaders start the flywheel. Lastly, our new Library https://slab.com/library/ is also a great place to look for inspiration - comment / upvote on categories of additional examples or templates you’d like to see!
Paul Rusyn
Well done! I admire your design and product 🀩
Jason Chen
Maker
Thank you @pavell2l πŸ™
Amey Chaugule
What size/type of team is best suited for Slab?
Jason Chen
Maker
Hey @ameyc, great question! First, Slab definitely shines in a team setting rather than personal usage since we made a lot of design choices to favor reading and consumption experiences. Even authoring has collaboration in mind, and we’ve built realtime collaboration and inline commenting/reactions to support that. Our search and organization features will come into play for teams with a lot of content. This can be a team with more people, or also a smaller teams with a strong documentation culture, like many remote teams do. Aside from that, Slab is built for any department and role to use, but we’ve found product and engineering teams to be the most picky with their tools so they are often more so appreciate some of the small details we work on in our UI.
Juergen Heise
I really appreciate all the work and updates you have put into slab. Anyhow, I miss a few features in the editor that are broadly used in other apps: - preview/display of pdf files - collapse paragraphs (toggle on/off) - preview of URLs Are you going to add such features to the editor to maker slab more convenient to use?
Jason Chen
Maker
Hey @jheiseapp thank you for the feedback! We're always looking to improve our editing experience and these are mostly on our radar. With the preview of URLs do you mean hovering over any arbitrary link in a post and having some hovercard show a preview of that destination?
Ricardo Fahrig
@jhchen @jheiseapp I second that. I'm super happy with the app but sometimes miss features I'm used to from Paper, like the aforementioned previews and collapse toggle, better tables or more layout options for images.
Marcos Ortiz
First congratulations to the entire Slab's crew for this launch. Well done @chengyinliu @jhchen @jesse_chase @sheharyarn @luinlee @marvin_qian @trisha_spesick @rebecca_acree . You have made an incredible job with this new version of the platform. I have to say that your product is always a good example of "Good Design is Good Business". It's fast, intuitive, and simple to use, and this new version relies on that. My favorite features are the new Comment system and the Box and Dropbox preview. Well done.
Jason Chen
Maker
Thank you @marcosluis2186 πŸ™ŒπŸ½
Christian Piponides
Promising product. I've added feedback over the landing page if it helps :) Congratulations launching V2 on Product Hunt!
Jason Chen
Maker
Thanks @christian_piponides ! Where did you add feedback? Your link just goes to this page
Jason Chen
Maker
@christian_piponides Great thank you!
benarent
We've been using Slab at Gravitational for a while now. We really like the integrations with GDrive, Asana and Github. It's great to see a bunch of small improvements always added. Keep up the good work team.
Jason Chen
Maker
Thank you @benarent we're grateful to be able to help your team πŸ™!
Atul Gupte
This seems to be a rather competitive market with many players: Confluence, Google Docs, Paper, Notion, etc. How is Slab different?
Jason Chen
Maker
Hey @atul_gupte thank you for the question! Many writing tools are built for a personal or small setting environments so organization, discovery, and search are all afterthoughts. We see a lot of teams have a good authoring experience on those tools but when they add more content and teammates, it's really hard to find anything so all that work writing the content is wasted πŸ™ Others tools do have a team audience in mind but they are too just hard to use, either for creation or consumption or both. We're super product focused at Slab to bring an approachable and intuitive product for the whole team, technical or not, and we've seen that be key for getting everyone to participate in documentation and knowledge sharing.
Joe Lau
We've been using Slab at Alchemy for a while, love it! Super well designed! @jhchen what new feature are you most excited about?
Jason Chen
Maker
Thank you @thejoelau and the Alchemy team for your patronage πŸ™ We're making both some functional and visual improvements to our search that I'm really excited about so stay tuned!
Nikil Viswanathan
We've been using the product for a long time - highly recommend! Jason and the team are awesome and Slab is simple and easy to use!
Jason Chen
Maker
Thank you @nikilster for your kind words and continued support πŸ’ͺ🏽 !
Ioan Profiroiu
Congrats, it seems super intuitive and time-saving with less opened tabs. Maybe you consider integrating email / calendar / LinkedIn.
Jason Chen
Maker
Thank you for the suggestion @profiroiu_ioan ! What functionality would you want to see with those integrations?
Vlad Korobov
I like what you are doing guys. Is there a way to auto export the content to some repository? Like once a day?
Jason Chen
Maker
Hey @vlad_korobov πŸ‘‹ Right now you can do manual exports of all your content but automatic is on our roadmap! For you, would you most prefer it to be emailed, uploaded to your s3/gcs, synced to some github/gitlab repo, hit some webhook endpoint or something else?
Jimmy Wang
Any plans to allow public access to documentation created using Slab? Public access as in an open link, no need to login to view the documentation.
Jason Chen
Maker
Hey @jimmy_wang_ thanks for asking - actually individual posts can be made public! Details here https://help.slab.com/en/article... but actually we have an upcoming update to make this even better and easier - stay tuned πŸ˜‰
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Topics have been deleted, but the posts under topics still exist, that is very strange. In addition, it is strange that posts cannot be deleted in batch, it's depressing.
Diogo Ferreira
Do you have a Mac app? If not are you planning to have?
Jason Chen
Maker
Hey @diogomartf we don't currently have a Mac app but it's on our roadmap!
Emily Poplawski
Awesome work! Look amazing
Stephanie McDonald
Are there plans for a Zapier integration?
Greg Palmer
I've been looking at expanding usage of Slab 2.0 for my team at 1stDibs - love it so far. The integrations and embedding are awesome; I find content organization a bit lacking, but am excited for the future of the product.