Whatis

Use Whatis to make sense of your team's jargon, terminology, project names, and more. Across Slack and Chrome.

Now part of @HightouchData

[Whatis @getwhatis]

Introducing: Whatis for Chrome.

Whatis for Chrome is a powerful collaborative glossary for your team's terminology, acronyms, jargon, project names, and more.

You can now bring your company's shared context into the tools you use every day.

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[Whatis @getwhatis]

Sounds about right.

[Shit User Story @ShitUserStory]

As an…
– employee in tech
I want…
– Everything abbreviated, even when the abbreviation itself takes longer to say than the original, before you even account for the fact that you have to say the original thing for clarification
so that…
– I can save time

[Whatis @getwhatis]

@SlackHQ Don't forget about all those pesky acronyms!

[Whatis @getwhatis]

@JdSoteldo @yongfook 💯🤝

[Whatis @getwhatis]

@JdSoteldo @yongfook Thanks for the shoutout, @JdSoteldo!

[JD Soteldo @JdSoteldo]

@yongfook zoom, google drive, whatis and jira

[Whatis @getwhatis]

We recently released a persistent sidebar that follows you around any tab to quickly and easily access Whatis on any webpage as part of our browser extension.

Anton led the engineering and wrote about some of the considerations and challenges on our blog https://t.co/3nLBaSWnLQ

[Whatis @getwhatis]

A shoutout to @hidovetail for helping empower our user research and allowing us to refer to interviews and tag insights directly on conversation transcripts.

[Whatis @getwhatis]

We're always told that "listening to customers" is important. But what does it really mean?

Whatis founder, Hugo Darwood, discusses the importance of user research and his personal journey of transitioning from software engineer to startup founder.

https://t.co/TN8mbWD3Ai

[Whatis @getwhatis]

Here's the Figma file template you can use to get started on your own component library.

https://t.co/Ia2UkXsPKs

[Whatis @getwhatis]

In our latest blog, we discuss how building a component library has helped us ship new features with speed, consistency, and confidence.

Check out how we've constructed our component library and a free template to get you started:

https://t.co/xxIuWCNUqH

[Whatis @getwhatis]

@hbuchel We're looking for anti-acronym and clear-writing influencers... just saying.

[Whatis @getwhatis]

@moonpolysoft We were forced into existence because of this tweet.

[Whatis @getwhatis]

One of the most popular ways our teams use Whatis is to make sense of all of the codenames of projects, microservices, and databases.

We feel you, @moonpolysoft.

[Whatis @getwhatis]

Iteration speed and developer productivity are key ingredients to building an early-stage startup.

In this blog, @mitchfriedman5 discusses how we crafted our local development environments at Whatis and how you might do the same.

https://t.co/khdFieklFG

[Whatis @getwhatis]

A big thank you to our friends at @Adaptavist for featuring Whatis as a "New and Noteworthy" addition to the Slack ecosystem in their 2021 roundup.

Read the full article: https://t.co/HQunMjr0k5

[Whatis @getwhatis]

Let us know what you think! You can give Whatis a try here: https://t.co/vToWvFUT9y

[Whatis @getwhatis]

Our team is excited to announce a few improvements and new features to Whatis:

- A new and improved chrome extension sidebar
- Rich notes formatting
- Multiple tags on terms

[Whatis @getwhatis]

Here's a quick demo of the new and improved Whatis Chrome Extension:

https://t.co/SfpZnqlHVh

[Mim @ClontarfD3]

Congrats on this awesome product @AaronFried1 - cutting through company jargon... badly needed! Check it out on @producthunt https://t.co/XQC6N2hHHM