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.
Quickly and permanently document who decided what, when and why.
📄 Lean Project Documentation
Do away with lengthy meeting minutes.
Loqbooq keeps a sequence of the relevant results — clutter free.
🎯 Commitment & Ownership
Collect single click approval from all stakeholders.
Assign a responsible decision owner to get it done.
📕 Permanent, indisputable record
Loqbooq stores decision logs unalterably.
Even if your project ends in dispute, Loqbooq is the single source of truth everybody can refer to.
Based on our record, Loqbooq should be more popular than Macarons. It has been mentiond 3 times since March 2021. 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
Last year we tapped into building Slack apps. Our first project was our decision record app Loqbooq. And while building a Slack app looks simple on first glimpse, it turned out to be very challenging. Especially user management and shared channels caused a lot of headache for us. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago
Loqbooq, our tool to document decisions in teams, is not our first rodeo. Frankly, rodeos aren't a good metaphor either. We have created and still maintain several app projects like Tincta – now in it's 10th anniversary – and Wokabulary. But we have also been working in other teams on a diverse portfolio of products. So, we are more used to running marathons in a software development kinda sense. You know, staying... - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago
Early on we had decided that our SaaS Loqbooq should not have a free plan. After all, it is a service aimed at businesses not individuals. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago
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