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, StrawPoll seems to be a lot more popular than Macarons. While we know about 14 links to StrawPoll, 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
The polling will be done through Strawpoll, for the following reasons:. Source: almost 2 years ago
Three months ago, I created a poll here, with a time limit to cast your vote. For this poll, I decided to re-open it, in case people missed the deadline and/or are new, to the Subreddit. The polling will remain through Strawpoll, for the following reasons:. Source: almost 2 years ago
It'd probably be easier to make a poll on https://strawpoll.com/en/ and link it. Source: about 2 years ago
If people come up with an interesting survey or poll via strawpoll/strawpoll.me or some other poll website. We'll allow it. Source: about 2 years ago
Make an account at https://strawpoll.com/en/ ask a question, put the options for people to vote on, eliminate one per day, wait for end results. Source: about 2 years ago
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