Meet random people from your organization for a coffee with macarons or for a quick video call. Get to know your colleagues better and maybe even make new (work) friends.
🧁 Quick and Easy
Just add the Macarons app to a Slack channel and it will automatically pair off random members for (virtual) coffees.
🎰 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.
🧊 Ice Breakers
Let Macarons get conversations started with predefined ice breakers or set your own custom topics for each round.
🏖 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.
Based on our record, Indie Hackers seems to be a lot more popular than Macarons. While we know about 75 links to Indie Hackers, 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.
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: almost 2 years ago
- make use of sites like this and indiehackers.com, etc... To hear from other people in a similar situation. Source: 5 months ago
But as far as I know, indiehackers.com and X with #indiehackers or #buildinpublic hashtag. Source: 5 months ago
Just a personal website is a good place for that. But there are things like https://indiepa.ge/ or your personal profile on indiehackers.com - even though it may not be so much for "graveyard purpose". Source: 7 months ago
I am a Solo founder and looking forward to meet like minded people. Most of the time I turn to indiehackers.com for inspiration but have found very few Indians on it who have made it big as a solo founder. So I was wondering if there is any other forum where Solo founders meet and discuss / share their challenges / learnings to help each other. Source: 7 months ago
Check out https://indiehackers.com, a community for "solopreneurs". - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
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