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, Soft Serve seems to be a lot more popular than Macarons. While we know about 16 links to Soft Serve, 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: about 2 years ago
If you need an open source example to use as a template you might want to take a look at soft serve: https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
I use this: https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve. Source: about 1 year ago
If you're into self hosting, soft-serve is a really cool terminal based git server from Charmbracelet https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Hi, I'm the author of the blog post. Thank you for your comment. A project you may find interesting is soft-serve from charm.sh https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve it's a "TUI" (terminal user interface). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Softserve is a cool one if you are into cli's. Source: over 1 year ago
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