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Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams

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Re: Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams

#11
Hi Chris! We all need better documentation/knowledge-base software/processes. I personally love workflowy, but have always admired the idea of gingkoapp.

Have you tried to think about hierarchical data like gingkoapp?

How about "structured data" do you have the idea of templates that require these xx data points?

A melding of the "content blocks" from project Gutenberg for WordPress & Gingkoapp's hierarchical data would make for a killer knowledge-base I'd gladly part with money to have personally & professionally.

Re: Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams

#12
Another note app?

I get that this is a massive problem space but with dropbox, notion, google and loads of other companies working on the exact same thing.... I have a hard time understanding why Y Combinator accepts companies like these.

Either way, excited to try it out; sounds like you've put a lot of BS&T into this.

Re: Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams

#13
post #11

Hi Chris! We all need better documentation/knowledge-base software/processes. I personally love workflowy, but have always admired the idea of gingkoapp. Have you tried to think about hierarchical data like gingkoapp? How about "structured data" do you have the idea of templates that require these xx data points? A melding of the "content blocks" from project Gutenberg for WordPress & Gingkoapp's hierarchical data wo…

Hey!

I love as a product person Workflowy or the concept of gingkoapp (and notion quoted above also relate to that I think).

The problem of complex structure is having a part of the team writing knowledge with comfort, all the rest not able to retrieving it, it really defeats the whole purpose.

That's why we're really focused on making information easy to write and easy to access without complexity for the rest of your team. And the most straightforward feature to allow structured data to us is simple internal links, like in a wiki. You can just type @+ name of your note to create an link internal to your Slite.

Re: Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams

#16

Congrats Chris! Look forward to trying it. But as of now, I’m getting this error. {"data":null,"errors":{"message":"Cannot destructure property `MAILCHIMP_API_KEY` of 'undefined' or 'null'."}}

Super sorry about that, we'll fix that asap! This is an issue normaly just on the mobile site, you can give it a try on the desktop in the meantime

Re: Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams

#18
Looking at this page, https://slite.com/use-cases, I feel like this kind of product is an anti-pattern. The reason that it's hard to find things in slack or docs is because these apps do not well understand the underlying structure of the data and so are relegated to either full-text search, or some sort of naive clustering algorithm. Although Slack has made some advances here - such as adding context-specific buttons for actions.

Will Slite do a better job at understanding our bug reports than Github? Or understanding our applicant tracking system then Greenhouse? Our customer support than Zendesk? Every one of these tools have a search feature.

The value of Google Docs is that it stays out of my way, lets me create freeform notes, and integrates with the rest of Google. Probably the same for Paper, or any other team notes solution. Once something gets complex enough, creates work for teams, or is mission critical, it either needs to be actively managed by a team member, or move into an automated tool that does that management for us. I can't imagine the solution would be to centralize all these disparate workflows in a tool like this.

Re: Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams

#20

Another note app? I get that this is a massive problem space but with dropbox, notion, google and loads of other companies working on the exact same thing.... I have a hard time understanding why Y Combinator accepts companies like these. Either way, excited to try it out; sounds like you've put a lot of BS&T into this.

Indeed, why would investors throw money at another note app?

Data, is my guess. Existing note apps perhaps don't collect, package, and act on (sell) that data as well as they could. I would not be surprised if that's a major component of any new company that just looks to be re-hashing existing companies. Their "new" approach is an improved UI, and massive data collection.

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