Whatis - Manage & organize your team's knowledge straight from Slack

Hi Product Hunt! We’re super excited to share Whatis with you all today. Whatis is the easiest way for teams using Slack to organize, manage, and curate their internal terminology, jargon, project info, and acronyms. Throw away that terrible spreadsheet, out-of-date wiki or endless email thread and install Whatis at https://whatis.rocks. We all know the familiar feeling of thinking that you’re the only person not knowing what a certain term or acronym means, but being too shy to ask a senior manager or interrupt the flow of a meeting (Whatis doesn’t judge your searches… yet 🤖 ). Or feeling like an information kiosk - constantly bombarded with repetitive questions from colleagues. Whatis is your team’s personal Google Search. We’re also thrilled to announce some new features today that we have been working hard on over the past few months: 🧙‍♀️ Gamify Knowledge Management by earning points for creating Whatises, or when your teammates 'like' one of your entries. Encourage, track, and reward collaborative participation across your team. 🤓 Understand your team's usage, view your leaderboard, and identify gaps in your team's documented knowledge with the Whatis admin dashboard. 🔍 Our search has improved - Whatis uses natural language processing to let you search your team's terms and phrases, even if you aren’t sure how something is spelled or only know contextual details. Whatis will even find terms that are pronounced similarly to what you're searching for e.g. searching for "Ayefty" will still return "AFT"! Whatis is brought to you with ❤️ to share our collective knowledge 🧠 by Mitchell, Hugo, and Aaron. Have any questions, comments, or feedback on Whatis? Just drop in the comments below 👇 Get started for free today with Whatis at https://whatis.rocks. If you decide to subscribe, use the code PRODUCTHUNT2021 to get 30% off for your first 3 months.

awesome work! love the. product

I would definitely love to test it. I'm just starting in my professional life and I often find myself so clueless when hearing acronyms or some technical vocabulary used by my colleagues, so it would surely be useful to me. I saw in the comments that you are willing to explore other platforms such as Discord, let me tell you you have one more supporter!

I recently installed Whatis at my workplace and have found it really great for managing industry terminology (hundreds of shipping terms/acronyms) and helping new joiners get up to speed. Thanks for building a simple and effective product!

I'm currently the Whatis product owner in a governmental department and I can tell you that this product has made our lives so much easier! Onboarders who used to be swamped by acronyms and terms on slack can now easily understand technical conversations and go straight to the relevant documentation and crucially for us (in such a large department) - the right contacts and channels! As a valued customer, the development team have been very responsive to our feedback and ideas, which has been an incredible experience. Highly recommend Whatis to any slack-using companies!

Great idea! I've not used it (yet), but I love that you've gamified it so that users earn points for helpful contributions.

amazing! can't wait to put my team on this

We’ve been using Whatis at Minerva for a few weeks now. Before Whatis, I would write out an acronym fully to introduce it (such a pain when you consider how wide your audience can be). But now, I’m succinct by default and it saves so much time. Keep up the great work!

At Divvy we love whatis! This has automated how we share internal knowledge and connect helpful instructions, links and documents. It makes it simple for anyone within our organization to quickly find or request information without having to talk, slack or email anyone. We have only been with Whatis for a few months and we can not build fast enough. This tool has been a game changer for not just the people team but every department within Divvy.

Fantastic product guys!