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Thanks to the lockdown, I've finally wrapped up the long work on a Slack plugin that helps you find the location of coworkers and meeting rooms: https://www.sla
by gzajac 6y ago
Thanks to the lockdown, I've finally wrapped up the long work on a Slack plugin that helps you find the location of coworkers and meeting rooms: https://www.slashmap.com/ https://www.slashmap.com/.
I used Go on the backend (rewritten from Node) and Vue on the frontend.
How it works: first, you upload a picture of your office layout using the web UI and mark everyone's locations. Then if you send "/map @JohnDoe", the plugin will return a map with the location marked on it. It works for meeting rooms and other locations as well.
Now the plugin has dozens of users and were featured in the Slack's app directory as "New and noteworthy".
If you have any questions, feel free to ping me at contact@slashmap.com :)
- j-rom 6y agoThis is super cool! Just out of curiosity, have you thought about automating the on boarding process at all? Something to streamline the process so that you don't need to manually mark each location? Or maybe even supporting multiple buildings?
- gzajac 6y agoThanks for the feedback! The app already supports multiple floors and multiple buildings. Regarding the streamlining of the process, I was thinking of something like adding an option to automatically send out invitations to everybody in the company to add their own location. What do you have in mind?
- j-rom 6y agoA bit late on this. But from my experience, if the onboarding is pushed onto the user, not everyone is going to do it, there might be some errors, etc... I was just thinking if there was some way you could automatically get their info without requesting it from each person.