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, Pomello should be more popular than Macarons. It has been mentiond 2 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.
I find that tools like Trello, a monthly task whiteboard, and pomodoro techniques quite helpful in reminding me of the progress I have made. Trello is especially helpful, and I happily pay for a premium subscription for extra features. It greatly helps in getting all of my courses on a timeline with start and end dates so that I actually have a deadline to meet. And moving classes to a done column feels very... Source: over 2 years ago
I like using Trello connected to Pomello https://pomelloapp.com/. Highly recommended and pretty easy to set up. 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 2 years ago
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