/whereis #everybody?: Friendly Slack app that remembers where your team is

Hi Product Hunt! /whereis #everybody? is a simple, friendly Slack app that helps in locating your Slack team members. Via Slack’s Slash Commands, you can register your current location(s), and query for the whereabouts of your colleagues. By the way, a location can be a physical location (like a city, a campus, a building or a room) but also many other things: a project, a customer that you’re servicing, a department or a team. We built /whereis #everybody? for use in a mid-sized consultancy firm in The Netherlands. Questions like “who has been working at in the past?“, “at which client is nowadays?” or “which people are currently at ?” where very common, but the company became too big for people to remember such things. To easily answer such questions, and also realising that Slack became the main communication and collaboration tool within our firm, we built /whereis #everybody? as a Slack bot for our company over two years ago. In that period, we saw that the Slack app - while staying simple and nimble - fulfilled the company's need nicely, and we imagined that other companies and Slack teams could benefit from its use as well. So, as a result, we ‘productized’ the tool during the first half of 2020, and published it to the Slack App directory on June 1st. We just onboarded our eleventh Slack team last week, of which one customer is using /whereis #everybody? to support the measures they had to take managing the novel corona virus pandemic. (They mentioned this in an email to us, and we included their use case on https://www.whereis-everybody.co.... Installing and using /whereis #everybody? now is free, and it'll remain free for at least the next 12 months. We’re thinking about a paid subscription model (with reasonable fees) to be implemented later this year. Subscribers joining before September 2020 will remain on the free plan for at least one year. More documentation - including a description and a visual on the solution design of this Slack app - can be found at https://www.whereis-everybody.com. Feel free to check it out! We appreciate your feedback. @gero_vermaas, @jschulenklopper

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Maker

6yr ago

@low_pressure_cooker Great to ask an additional question in Slack!

@mikeyeva Thanks for the suggestion! What kind of question did you have in mind? And in what way would it add to the value of */whereis #everybody?* ?

@low_pressure_cooker Welcome

@mikeyeva What kind of additional question did you have in mind?

@low_pressure_cooker I mean that quest @Where are you?@ is the additional question which you offer in Slack