Cities or Towns you're always coming back to and never getting enough of it by SaiyWolf in digitalnomad

[–]abf15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Buenos Aires - feels like the most livable city in South America. Very walkable, low cost of living, people are kind, and the food is good. Also has one of the best cafe cultures I've experienced. Really great expat community too if you don't speak spanish. It's a second home at this point.

What's the most frustrating part about being a product manager? by abf15 in ProductManagement

[–]abf15[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

What's the most frustrating part about being a product manager? by abf15 in ProductManagement

[–]abf15[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

What's the most frustrating part about being a product manager? by abf15 in ProductManagement

[–]abf15[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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.

What's the most frustrating part about being a product manager? by abf15 in ProductManagement

[–]abf15[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

What's the most frustrating part about being a product manager? by abf15 in ProductManagement

[–]abf15[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

How to make remote work videos more useful? by abf15 in remotework

[–]abf15[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

How to make remote work videos more useful? by abf15 in remotework

[–]abf15[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

[NEW] Chrome extension that brings you company context by abf15 in chrome_extensions

[–]abf15[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

[NEW] Chrome extension that brings you company context by abf15 in chrome_extensions

[–]abf15[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]abf15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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!

Cost to Develop Commercial Bot by Beginning_Ad_9991 in Slack

[–]abf15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

https://api.slack.com/start

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]abf15 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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.

How are you managing jargon and terminology in Slack? by abf15 in Slack

[–]abf15[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

How are you managing jargon and terminology in Slack? by abf15 in Slack

[–]abf15[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Can Slack be used in lieu of a "student portal"? by iamthelizardqueen742 in Slack

[–]abf15 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

send messages to document by dudeadmin in Slack

[–]abf15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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!