GitBook combines powerful docs with AI-powered search and insights to give technical teams a single source of truth for their knowledge. Effortlessly create, surface and improve documentation in the tools you use every day — such as Slack, GitHub and VS Code.
Hey Product Hunt! I'm Sara, and I'm the CEO of GitBook, a knowledge-sharing platform built for technical teams. This is by far our biggest launch of this year, and I'm super excited to share it with you all!
But first, a little bit about how we got here…
Ever since we first started GitBook (in 2014!) it’s been our goal to be the best platform for creating and collaborating on amazing documentation.
That started with open-source public docs, but recently we’ve been using our experience to improve how teams handle technical information internally, too. And what we’re releasing today is a huge step forward on that path — with new features and deep integrations built specifically to help engineering teams document, improve and discover internal knowledge.
Oh, and we’ve also got a pretty cool new brand and UI to go alongside it. We hope you love it as much as we do!
Anyway, let’s talk features:
💬 Turn Slack conversations into documentation — The new GitBook Slack bot can take a thread, extract the useful info, and turn it into docs. Plus, it can answer questions using information in your knowledge base — just ask.
🛠️ Create docs while you code — Narrate a quick guide in VS Code and GitBook will combine your actions and voiceover into documentation. This one can answer questions, too — just like our Slack bot.
✂️ Introducing snippets — GitBook AI takes unstructured information from those integrations, extracts the important parts, then creates a snippet — a structured page in your docs that’s easy to read and digest.
💡 Maintain your docs with content insights — Insights now help you identify pages in your knowledge base with contradictory information, or duplicated content. So you can find outdated pages and quickly fix them at scale.
✨ A completely new UI design — We’ve redesigned our entire UI to match our new brand. It’s cleaner, faster, and more modern 💅
These are the headlines, but over the past few weeks we’ve also made a ton of QOL improvements in the app. From better performance, to improved comments, real-time collaboration and more.
But all this is just the start. We have a lot of big plans for what comes next. We hope you’ll join us for the ride!
For now, I'll just say thanks so much for your support today 🙏 we’d love to hear your feedback, so please drop questions and thoughts below! The team will be hear all day.
Enjoy!
Sara, Samy, and the whole team at GitBook
Congratulations on the big launch, Sara and the GitBook team! 🚀 The new features, especially the Slack bot and VS Code integration, sound incredibly useful for streamlining documentation workflows. The snippets and content insights showcase a thoughtful approach to knowledge management. Loving the fresh UI too! Excited to see how GitBook continues to evolve. 👏🎉
@sara_tandowsky1 @samypesse
Hey Sara and GitBook team! 🚀 Loving the evolution and the focus on enhancing internal knowledge management. The VS Code integration for creating docs while coding sounds fantastic! 🤩
Can you share more insights on how the Slack bot ensures the extracted info maintains context and accuracy when turned into docs? Excited to explore this new era with GitBook! 🌐
Kudos to the maker for GitBook! It streamlines knowledge management with AI-driven search, benefiting technical teams.
While the likes of Notion and Obsidian charges you for publishing your docs, here is a platform that charges nothing. At the top, they allows you to use your own custom domain. This is going to be a boon for indie developers or garage startups. They provide tons of features for free. I wish them best of luck ! And thanks for your great work!
Congratulations on your launch! Looks impressive! Wishing you luck for future projects. Followed you on Twitter :)
About The New GitBook on Product Hunt
“Your team's go-to for technical knowledge management”
The New GitBook launched on Product Hunt on November 30th, 2023 and earned 627 upvotes and 143 comments, earning #1 Product of the Day. GitBook combines powerful docs with AI-powered search and insights to give technical teams a single source of truth for their knowledge. Effortlessly create, surface and improve documentation in the tools you use every day — such as Slack, GitHub and VS Code.
The New GitBook was featured in Developer Tools (511k followers), Artificial Intelligence (466.2k followers) and Development (5.8k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 155.3k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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