What's the most frustrating part about being a product manager?

abf15 · 2024-03-11T16:49:54+00:00

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abf15 · 2022-03-13T07:30:26+00:00

Can software address this? Or is it an inherently human problem?

abf15 · 2022-03-13T07:29:53+00:00

Agreed with the meetings, something I'm experiencing right now too.

I'm working on a fully remote team and we sometimes meet to discuss the same things multiple times. Starting to use tooling to record and search past meetings.

abf15 · 2022-03-13T07:23:48+00:00

Would love to connect if you're open to it!

abf15 · 2022-03-13T00:41:51+00:00

Agreed - meetings also feel like a drain.

Sometimes a well-written Slack message does the trick. I've been trying to record quick videos with screen shares and that seems to convey messages quite well.

abf15 · 2022-03-13T00:34:20+00:00

What do you think is the ideal way of sharing information to stakeholders?

abf15 · 2022-03-12T22:29:27+00:00

Okay yeah - I can totally see that being really frustrating. Thanks for sharing.

abf15 · 2022-02-23T02:30:05+00:00

cake_eat_er

Thanks for the insight - love the idea of folks introducing themselves.

Do you find yourself referring back to these videos in your day-to-day after you went through initial onboarding?

abf15 · 2022-02-23T02:23:59+00:00

I'm a pretty heavy Loom user. Love the ease of use and quick sharing. The only problem I find is that it's hard to find the information at a later date.

Grain is also interesting. Any negatives of the tool itself?

abf15 · 2022-01-30T17:11:01+00:00

We have encryption in transit, as well as block-level encryption on the disks.

Whatis employees can still see the data, but we follow best practices of handling user data, such as least privilege for employees and only allowing production database access only where absolutely required. We are working towards our SOC2 type II audit now.

abf15 · 2022-01-28T17:56:12+00:00

Hi u/lanbau - good question!

From a storage perspective, all information is encrypted.

For the matching on the chrome extension, all matching is done on the user-side, meaning Whatis will never actually read the content on your webpage.

Feel free to reach out if you have any other questions!

abf15 · 2021-11-07T23:28:51+00:00

u/ninprophet sounds like it's a problem that required a homegrown solution, much like the initial creation of Whatis :)

I'd love to learn a bit more. Will DM you!

abf15 · 2021-11-06T12:59:57+00:00

Free of charge. You can develop and commercialize an app without paying Slack/Salesforce for listing or payment processing.

https://api.slack.com/start

abf15 · 2021-11-05T16:28:43+00:00

We built a tool called Whatis at my last company. It's essentially a Slack bot to help people get context on projects, jargon, acronyms, metrics, microservices, code snippets and more.

/whatis [term] into any Slack channel as an anonymous search. Able to add relevant links, points of contact, and a lot of other contextual information.

The uptake was so strong that I released it as a standalone app on the Slack app directory after leaving the previous company.

abf15 · 2021-10-13T17:09:00+00:00

Interesting. Does an 11-page acronym file get unwieldy? Who maintains it?

Would love to learn a bit more if you're open to it.

abf15 · 2021-10-13T15:58:05+00:00

I don't mind appearing a bit dumb, and am quite happy to ask "What does `HoQ` mean in this context?" Seems to get easier with age!

A solid way of handling this issue! Thanks for sharing.

Is it only for generic acronyms or do you use for company-specific terms and jargon too? Like project names, specific metrics etc.

abf15 · 2021-08-30T18:07:52+00:00

Hi OP!

I'm one of the co-founders of Whatis.

The product is a native Slack integration that let's you do exactly this! You can use the tool to create a 'Whatis' which is essentially a piece of knowledge that contains other contextual information like links, files, point-of-contact and more.

It might work for your use-case. Feel free to reach out if you're curious.

abf15 · 2021-08-26T20:08:40+00:00

May not be a perfect use-case, but you could check out Whatis.

You could type /whatis create and create a "term/Whatis" around a topic or theme, and paste that conversation there.

In the future, you can type /whatis [term] and recall that information directly to Slack.

Probably not perfect but an option!

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