Productivity & PKM
Hacker News · 2020-03-01
Good ways to capture institutional knowledge inside a company
公司里的「隐性知识」到底怎么沉淀下来？
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- WhoHacker News · 2020-03-01 · 547 upvotes · 213 replies
- The askGood ways to capture institutional knowledge inside a company
- The openingAuto-capture knowledge from Slack, GitHub and calls, with Q&A retrieval and knowledge-health checks.
What was actually said
“Successful companies institutionalize the knowledge of their employees… Young companies tend to depend on the dedication and talent of a few.”
— Hacker News · 2020-03-01 · news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22454333…
Background and pain
The pain
When people leave, knowledge leaves; nobody writes docs, and written docs are unfindable.
A buildable angle
The opening
Auto-capture knowledge from Slack, GitHub and calls, with Q&A retrieval and knowledge-health checks.
How to validate it
- Read the whole thread and note the recurring scenarios — repetition is the density of the need.
- Search existing tools around "knowledge base / internal docs" and check which single step they actually cover.
- Put up a one-line landing page, share it back to Hacker News, and see whether anyone asks about pricing.
Existing options
Notion, Guru, Slite, Glean
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