
Exploding Topics
Glimpse
Google Trends
Treendly
Trends.co
Slack
Coolors.co
Jama Connect
Macarons
Donut Slack Bot
Coffee Chat Slack
Catchup Rocks
Snack Slack Bot
Coworker Coffee
Suptask
RandomCoffee
Meet random people from your organization for a coffee with macarons or for a quick video call. ย Get to know your colleagues better and maybe even make new (work) friends.
๐ง Quick and Easy
Just add the Macarons app to a Slack channel and it will automatically pair off random members for (virtual) coffees.
๐ฐ Control the Odds
For each channel you can control how often and when chat lotteries happen, as well as how many people should be matched together.
๐ง Ice Breakers
Let Macarons get conversations started with predefined ice breakers or set your own custom topics for each round.
๐ Take a skip day
Independent of a channels meeting interval, each user can always individually pause their participation or decide to only take part every other time.
Exploding Topics
MacaronsExploding Topics is recommended for marketers, entrepreneurs, product developers, and business strategists who are looking to gain a competitive edge by identifying and leveraging upcoming trends. It's also useful for investors seeking to understand potential growth areas in various markets.
Based on our record, Exploding Topics seems to be a lot more popular than Macarons. While we know about 30 links to Exploding Topics, we've tracked only 1 mention of Macarons. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Check out: https://explodingtopics.com/ (not related to them in any way). - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
Sounds pretty similar to the situation I found myself in. I discovered a few newsletters/tools: trending insights (free), exploding topics ($39/mo), and trends.co ($300/ yr). Source: almost 3 years ago
I also recommend subscribing to newsletters like new venture weekly (free) or Exploding Topics (freemium) for business ideas. Source: almost 3 years ago
Best to start with what you're good at doing, check websites like exploding topics and answer the public to see if there is hype/market around your skillset. Get started by helping people in that niche for free, use AI tools to supercharge your work and find clients. Rinse and repeat until you start making money. Source: about 3 years ago
There are places that can even help you find the perfect niche to go into like exploding niches, exploding topics to name a few. Source: about 3 years ago
It took us a few months (I think it was 4) but now we released Macarons. After adding Macarons to the workspace you have to invite it to a channel and then can configure how often people of that channel are matched. Additionally you can specify how big the match groups should be and everyone participating can adjust their participation rate. That's basically it. Since Macarons is not over-boarded with features we... Source: about 4 years ago
Glimpse - Discover trends before they're trending
Donut Slack Bot - Get matched with a new coffee buddy each week in Slack
Google Trends - Explore Google trending search topics with Google Trends.
Coffee Chat Slack - Schedule random coffee chats for your team in Slack. Start connecting your team in just a couple of clicks with templates designed just for the needs of remote and hybrid teams.
Treendly - Track global trends
Catchup Rocks - Virtual coffee / watercooler chats for Slack.