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A Slack app called Whatis which is like a super-powered glossary for teams.

The goal is to nudge teams to share the burden of keeping knowledge touchpoints (acronyms etc...) up to date by gamifying knowledge discovery and maintenance. Figuring out gamification was a great challenge!

You can find out more here Https://Whatis.rocks or in the Slack app directory


This problem is exactly why I decided to create my Slack app Whatis! https://whatis.rocks/


Shouldn't it be "What are rocks?"


Yes but in this case “rocks” actually refers to our team’s project to migrate from Oracle MySQL to Postgres. Did they not cover that in your onboarding?


I sometimes use "whois X?", even if the correct form would be "what is?" or "who are?". Using and old IRCism is just more fun.


I guess it would depend whether you were accessing the URL in the second or third person.


it could easily be "What is 'rocks'?"


Or that the entity/object represented by the noun "WhatIs" rocks.


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