This was for a company called houseparty.com (before the one you heard of). I got my first programming job there! Great company and great small group of people. Source: over 1 year ago

Houseparty.com as houseparty shuts down, the hand waves one last time :(. Source: over 2 years ago

I tried using https://sneek.io/ but found it wasn't "presence"-y enough. Source: about 1 year ago

It's interesting that you mention body doubles, because for a while I tried to get my team to use Sneek. Sometimes it feels like I've been re-inventing a bunch of stuff in parallel to the ADHD community. Source: about 1 year ago

Before corona, I worked a job in an office (I think the workshy slobs are still mad at me, so sparing details). Anyway, we had this devision of essentially HR "people" that would spend their time talking, leaving early, etc. I had no idea how to make them BEHAVE! Essentially, part of what they did was to organize meetings, keep schedule of the work hours of OTHER people =, etc. When the pandemic hit (2 hours less... Source: almost 3 years ago

Since the pandemic started, there's been a wave of horrendous surveillance software used by companies with shit cultures who don't know how to manage people remotely. Sneek, as mentioned in this article, for example. It doesn't market itself as awful invasive monitoring software, but jesus christ:. Source: almost 3 years ago