Pinpon
The ping pong bot for Slack
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Pinpon - The ping pong bot for Slack

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This is cool. Really curious to see how Slack bots/integrations will introduce and evolve workplace gamification. It's a big challenge to provide a great experience while being constricted to a text-centric interface and office culture. Great job!
exactly. We gamify "thanks" and 👍-type emojis to produce a leaderboard of the most helpful team members.
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we've been using Pinpon at Coinbase for over a year and it has organically grown by itself and helped create an even more fun culture of pingpong.
Awesome. Looks like a more evolved pongbot () which we are a big fan of at the office. Will definitely try it out when it's ready.
Yep, and it looks awesome! Pongbot was a quick two-day project, and I love improved ideas. :)
I love ping pong, and therefore love this. Is this a side project, learning project, or stepping stone to something bigger?
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we'd like to see as many people using this as possible. We'll see :)
Pinpon is still in beta, try , a similar and free service available now.
Any update on availability? My team is chomping at the bit with undocumented games :).
Maker
Yup, hold tight!
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We're ready, follow us on Twitter at for instructions
Up and running. Thanks again guys!
Cannot wait to use this in our office! And the design is beautiful! Thanks for making something we've wished was available!
Kind of funny... I just wrote a ping pong slack bot for our office a few weeks ago. It's cool to see someone else with the same "problem". The aesthetic and overall UX of yours is so much better than what I whipped together (really just an API). I'm curious -- what did you decide to use for the score algorithm?
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we decided to go with the ELO score, since it's been used for a long time and it's weighted :)
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Love this! Looking forward to using this!
Great looking site! I'm always a bit weary of animations and moving elements but you guys really nailed it.
Fun! People are commenting on workplace gamification, but I actually believe things like this will allow Slack to appeal better to new audiences beyond work/tech people socializing.
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