Hi Product Hunt 👋, I'm Jason, the CEO of Slab, and along with my team @chengyinliu and @jesse_chase, we are thrilled to share Slab with you. Thanks @chrismessina for hunting us! At Slab, we're building your team's long-term memory. When a team is starting out, knowledge sharing is mostly ad hoc through Google Docs or ephemeral through email or chat. Once they grow to a certain size (remote teams experience this much sooner), finding answers in these tools becomes a struggle and a more deliberate and durable way to share knowledge is needed. Our team has all experienced this problem firsthand, at some of the most innovative software companies. We learned that knowledge sharing at scale is still an open problem, even for the most efficient teams. We've spent the past year iterating with our private beta companies to build Slab. It ties together an intuitive, simple interface with powerful search and organization—and integrates with numerous tools to connect your team's knowledge together. We are excited to share this with you today and would love to get your feedback! We'll be around all day answering questions, so feel free to comment here or email me directly at jason@slab.com.

How does Slab compare to something like Notion (which works well for now for our tiny team)?

We* defaulted to using slack/gdocs as the de-facto knowledge management tool, quickly realized that's not the way to grow and started looking into a dedicated solution. I used confluence and a few wiki solutions before, both in context of a tech team in a large investment banking institution, startups and community organizations. In the end it was a close call between Confluence and a Slab, we decided to go with Slab. It is simple and straightforward to use for both devs and non-devs in the team. The Slab devs have been very responsive and added an app integration we really needed (for diagramming) in a matter of days, which was impressive.

* My team makes a hardware product that has a lot of complexity (6 levels, from product design to game engine)

Pros:

Quick setup, clean layout, good performance, team adding new integrations/features often

Cons:

Some integrations not yet there yet (e.g. Jira), still requires thought to be put into the structure of knowledge

Awesome product 😍 Been using it for the past few months, love being able to quickly create docs, and share exports that look fresh with clients and my team 🙌🏽🔥

Slab is a simple, but very well designed wiki with a clear sense of purpose: it wants to tie together all the places your team currently stores information to become a single source of knowledge for the entire organization. The result is a wiki that lacks some of the visual niceties and tat of some other solutions, but which makes up for it in sheer usability.

They're threading a needle here. It feels simple and doesn't impose itself at all on your writing process, but it also subtly ensures that you're keeping everything well organized and referenceable by the whole org. That's a stark contrast to systems like Confluence, which are potentially very powerful if used correctly but using where using them "correctly" imposes such an additional upkeep burden they hardly get used at all.

Ultimately, a wiki is only as useful as the amount of infomation it contains. Slab is one of the few I've seen that my team actually seems to like to use. That's a winner today in my book, and I'm very eager to see what else they add as it develops.

Pros:

Lightweight in all the ways you want it to be, easiest to use wiki I've encountered. Search is powerful w/ integration into linked documents

Cons:

Still a bit feature light, works best for content without a lot of visuals. Would benefit from more customization options

Slab makes it incredibly easy to create and consume internal documentation, so it has exactly one purpose in our organization: to be the first (and, ideally, last) place anyone visits with a question. It's now used by every team in the company. I think Slab succeeds for us because it doesn't stray from its core purpose. It makes discovery and navigation easier than Drive, without losing collaboration support, and it makes content creation much more accessible than in a wiki.

Pros:

Focused UX, with a great editing interface that is friendly to engineering *and* non-engineering teams.

Cons:

Its search could search even more places! It does cover Google Drive, though, so we have 90% of what we need.

Slab has been absolutely huge helping our team document best practices and long term company knowledge. Great UX, super fast, really strong search. Hard to see any downsides!

Pros:

Insanely helpful

Cons:

Wish I'd had it earlier

We have used Slab since it was in private beta. It's been very helpful for us as we grow and scale the company. For us, as an enterprise startup focused on lengthly sales cycles and deep esoteric knowledge, we knew we needed a great product for us to document a lot of learnings.

Slab has been a product that everyone in the company has used, and uses without many questions or much on-boarding effort. It's been critical for us to scale knowledge and the ease at which we've managed to capture it has yielded so much as we continue to grow and add people.

Highly recommended.

Pros:

Fast, Intuitive, Simple. Powerful integration with Slack and GDocs

Cons:

Still new, compliance roadmap unknown

Slab has become so ubiquitous at Elucd that we use it as a verb. “To Slab” something means to preserve it into the long term memory of our org by documenting it. We were fortunate enough to be invited into the private beta in the early days of our company, and we use it for everything — technical documentation, our employee handbook, product launch documentation, notes and synopses of user research, and on and on. It’s one of the few saas products that everyone on our team universally loves. Lightweight enough to not be a drag, but powerful enough to scale with us as our needs grow. I recommend it constantly to people looking for a knowledge management solution, and am thrilled and proud to see Slab on PH today!

We were super early users of Slab and love that it imported our repo's Github wiki, which hadn't been getting any love.

Pros:

Actually makes you want to write and maintain a wiki!

Cons:

I can't stop staring at their animated logo

Keep up the good work!

Congrats on the launch. We've been using slab at our startup for close to a year and love it. Its been super helpful for: --> new employee on-boarding and up to date docs on company policies, etc. --> organizing product and engineering docs for collaboration on new features --> keep the team aligned by organizing meeting notes, OKRs, etc. I love the design and ease of use. And the integration with google docs is amazing. Sometimes we do our writing directly in slab, and other times we just paste in a link to a doc and it gets converted into a large beautifully formatted card in slab which is great. And everything is organized in a shared repository that actually makes sense in a team context (unlike google drive which is a mess for team management). We have a few remote team members and slab has been a foundational tool in helping us make that work -- by making it easy for everyone to document, organize and collaborate around product work. People actually use it. And spending more time writing stuff down has been invaluable. The team is great too -- responsive, quick to make refinements, and always shipping new features. We've had a great experience.

Huge fan of Slab! Really useful product especially as our company grows, and the team has been super responsive to feedback! Definitely a critical need in our industry and I'm glad somebody is tackling it.

Looks B-E-A-UTIFUL! Big congrats @chengyinliu & team.

Neat! I’ll give this a try with the team. Drive’s been turning into a bit of a mess.

My team of 10 ran out of Slab as one of its early users. Loved how easy it was to create posts and link them together. I'm excited to see where this product goes! :)

I love how Slab brings together a lot of the best features you need in a company wiki/note taking tool with relevant integrations like Slack and GitHub!

Slab is friggin' awesome. Extremely well thought out product, great UX, very impressed overall!

Beautiful, simple and super useful! Wikis reimagined in the age of real-time. Great job Team Slab!

Looks great! Nice work