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We built a Slack emulator to demo our chatbot
- karmabot 7y agoLooking great!
- kulesh 7y agoI knew you'd love it.
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- mei33 7y agonice! how about discord messenger?
- kulesh 7y agoTotally doable. However, in our case, not sure if anyone would pay for a bot like ours on Discord.
- diezvl 7y agoCould you please elaborate on choosing Nuxt?
- kulesh 7y agoIt's one of the best — robust and flexible, well-supported and regularly-maintained – Vue-based frameworks out there. https://nuxtjs.org/guide https://nuxtjs.org/guide
- kulesh 7y agoThe interactive tour on our website at https://karmabot.chat/#demo https://karmabot.chat/#demo (desktop only) is pretty cool. It looks good and can do a lot: - It executes bot's commands - Emulates Slack interface with channels, conversations and all - Generates dummy data on the spot - Supports multiple languages Sharing a semi-long read with some code bits. Please feel free to ask any questions. Thanks! P.S.: Got Mictrosoft Teams demo too: http://karmabot.chat/ms/#demo http://karmabot.chat/ms/#demo
- alex_baber 7y agoSeems like a perfect match for millennials!
- welder 7y agoThat's cool, I did the same a few years ago and got an email from Slack asking to put this green banner at the bottom saying it's not affiliated with Slack. https://wakatime.com/slack https://wakatime.com/slack
- rlt 7y agoNot sure how I feel about the product itself. Giving "karma" to your coworkers and having a leaderboard feels a bit Black Mirror Nosedive-esque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror) Are these kinds of things actually good for corporate culture?
- danpalmer 7y agoI think this is really risky. Some companies have the concept of peer-awarded bonuses, and these can work sometimes, but they often just create a "game" and a whole load of hidden politics. I would suggest that most companies should be very careful about introducing peer bonuses, let alone something like this. I would also suggest that much of the benefits of this product (increased recognition) could come from a combination of: thumbs-up or similar reactions to Slack messages, a channel to call out nice things people did (we have #values where we call out people living our company values), and a space for these deeds to be recognised such as at company all-hands meetings (we have a "thank yous and well dones" section in ours each week).
- steve19 7y agoAs a manager I find it horrifying. At its core it is the gamification of office politics. And must surely lead to groupthink and conformity. The consequences of disagreeing might be at the end of the quarter a manager is looking at your low score and wondering if you should be cut. Any company looking to adopt this should only do so after carefully looking at high quality peer reviewed studies on the outcomes of this kind of social credit system.
- brodo 7y agoExactly. I bet there will be ‘upvote cartels’ where people agree to upvote each other and downvote everyone else to get ahead. A game theoretic analysis of this would be interesting.
- amelius 7y agoReminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_assessment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_assessment
- spondyl 7y agoWhoa, always very cool to see a fellow Aucklander here on HN :) Hmm, I'm curious to know if you would consider something like Officevibe to be a competitor for example? From what I understand, their Slack integration can't be configured on a team by team level for example so it's mostly used via email where I work. As a result, it's really easy to just overlook all of those requests for feedback and so on as they blend in with the rest of my inbox I presume it wouldn't quite be as Officevibe is more for anonymous (opt out) feedback while Karmabot is focused on visible feedback it seems.
- kulesh 7y agoHey, good to see you mate. Officevibe is great for NPS kind of thing. Karma bot is for daily casual micro-feedback, encouragement and rewards (coffee, movie tickets, Amazon gift cards). Some of the things it does, work well for enterprises, but don’t get that much traction in startups. On the other hand, brick-and-mortar businesses find the idea attractive (pizza place, car-washing and car-leasing services we’ve got). 500 teams use it for free, 98 actually pay us to manage their karma.
- nottorp 7y ago"Thousands of business teams have ditched emails for Slack". Really, they did? Not us, we send emails for reference stuff all the time...
- autotune 7y agoNobody has "ditched emails for Slack," and if they have that's a company I wouldn't want to work for. You still need a way to have more permanent personal documentation besides a wiki and the ability to send things more securely compare to slack.
- kulesh 7y agoDunno, that’s what customers (and Slack) tell us.
- darepublic 7y agoSlack is distracting enough as it is without having to send and reply to karma requests like this. Would negatively effect my view of a workplace employing a bot like this
- m12k 7y agoI actually had an idea for a sort of opposite slackbot: It would sit in all channels and keep track of the messages sent by each person. Then it could calculate how many man hours each person's messages had caused others to spend reading them. It could give you weekly feedback, and encourage you to focus your communication, and avoid spacing it out, but handling things in concentrated bursts, so you don't keep re-distracting people. Maybe it could even have weekly leaderboards with the people that managed to communicate the least disruptively with their colleagues.
- lapnitnelav 7y agoOr it could be used as yet another metric of which people are willing to spend a bit of time to help their fellow colleagues. It can have a huge impact and isn't something that will necessarily come up on performance review.
- kulesh 7y agoGood points here. We are shifting away from leaderboards. Stay tuned
- greatjack 7y agoFinally proof that slack is a platform. Emulation????? What the heck