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Work · August 6, 2019

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Acronym Slack Bot

I created a Slack bot that crowdsources acronym and word definitions within Slack. When I started working I realized how many acronyms and words were being thrown around with the expectation that everyone in the room knew what they meant. I hated having to search around internal docs or Google to figure out what words meant, and thought there had to be a better way to quickly look something up without interrupting the meeting. So I created a super simple Slack bot that helps you define words within Slack and then crowdsources the definitions from the rest of the company by posting into a…

Acronym Slack Bot launched on August 6, 2019 with 6 votes, #1,078 of 3,185 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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I created a Slack bot that crowdsources acronym and word definitions within Slack. When I started working I realized how many acronyms and words were being thrown around with the expectation that everyone in the room knew what they meant. I hated having to search around internal docs or Google to figure out what…

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