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Idea (for Slack users)

A problem I have is searching for information/documentation at work in general, and particularly on Slack that seems to be chat focused but ironically has a lot of company knowledge locked into it.

The idea is to have a tool you point at your slack workspace and helps you convert that into documentation hosted on a site.

How exactly this is done is up for design but it could be filters (i.e. grab everything from this channel that matches these filters and make page called XYZ). It could also be a right click to keep valuable info which then ends up on the site.

Mum test aside, would anyone want this or care about this problem?

on March 18, 2022
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    This is an interesting idea. even allowing some custom webhook that auto uploaded and created documentation via a bot process would be interesting. So something along the lines of:

    1. call /docify
    2. the bot asks you for endpoint type, payload, headers, etc, and response signature
    3. the bot confirms the request and generates an endpoint w swagger

    or for non technical documentation, it could link to a notion page and generate the doc you are looking to make.

    Nice!

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      I like your idea as it is closer to an MVP, and still something useful on it’s own. Thanks. Maybe I can draw something up and see if I can find say 10 dev teams to throw down a dollar deposit.

      For what I am thinking I prefer readthedocs to swagger. For where I work most information is about general stuff not apis. Although that has just been my experience. More modern dare i say shops maybe more api driven and focused.