Amanu

Hey makers! 👋 A recurring issue throughout my career has been sharing knowledge within teams. Every time I joined a new company I found the knowledge base (Confluence, Notion, Coda, Google Docs, I've seen it all) to be neglected, with most people resorting to starring or pinning Slack threads instead. (🚀 To celebrate the launch I'm giving away an activation code that gives you the Pro plan for free for a whole month! Install Amanu and issue the command /activate amanu_sub_letmetry to start your trial) Why do we need a solution? Knowledge stored outside of the primary communication platform just doesn't seem to stand the test of time for a lot of companies. Some are more diligent than others but, in my experience, that's often not the case. As someone who appreciates self reliance and the RTFM philosophy, frustration grew stronger every time I was forced to ask for help, even for the simplest things. One day, after the nth attempt at finding something in our internal knowledge base, only to be told it was explained in some random Slack thread, I thought "this has to stop!" and started working on Amanu. The name comes from "amanuensis", a latin word used to describe people who used to transcribe books before the invention of the printing press. How can Amanu help? Amanu is a chat integration (we integrate with Slack and are working on Discord and Teams) that remembers anything you react to with 🅰️ . You can then ask questions exactly as you would to a more knowledgable colleague and you will get a response that also contains a link to the messages/documents used to answer your question. You can think of it as FAQs on steroids. 💪 Imagine uploading a Zoom recording on Slack and asking Amanu to give you a bullet point summary of the whole meeting, with actionable items and tagging the relevant people. Or to quickly explain something to a colleague and ask Amanu to learn from it, for others to use in the future. All of a sudden, keeping knowledge complete and up to date takes two clicks! It can currently learn from messages, PDF documents and anything that contains clear audio (e.g. Zoom recordings, voice notes). Amanu cannot read messages in channels it's not invited to and will only memorize the ones you react to as described above. You can see a couple of cool demos at https://amanu.ai. I'm confident that platforms like Slack, Discord, Teams etc. will increasingly establish themselves as *the* platforms the whole company rotates around. It's already the case for communication and automation. Knowledge sharing just seems to be a natural extension and rudimentary keyword based search won't cut it. So... Just ask Amanu! Check it out at https://amanu.ai

The idea of having a chat assistant that emulates the expertise of experienced colleagues is intriguing. Could you elaborate on the technology behind Amanu? How does it understand context and provide valuable insights?

I find this product very useful. Previously, I had to spend several minutes scrolling up to find previous requirements of our project. But now, with this product, all I need to do is mention Amanu and ask about it.