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Work · May 11, 2022

Macarons

Chat roulette for Slack

Macarons launched on May 11, 2022 with 78 votes, #434 of 2,942 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

What it does

Macarons is your virtual watercooler for casual conversations with colleagues you rarely meet on the hallway. Just add the Macarons app to a Slack channel and it will automatically pair off random members for having a casual chat over coffee.

Connects co-workers randomly for coffee breaks, lunch dates, or video chats. Your virtual watercooler for remote teams who rarely meet on the hallway.

Just add the Macarons app to a Slack channel, and it will automatically pair off random members for having a (virtual) coffee. For each channel, you can control how often and when chat lotteries happen, as well as how many people should be matched together. Let Macarons get conversations started with predefined icebreakers. Or set your own custom topics for each round. Independent of a channel’s meeting interval, each user can always individually pause their participation or decide to only take part every other time. When teams work remotely or distributed, there is no chance to meet co-workers in the hallway or at the coffee machine. But without the occasional off-work chat, it becomes…from macarons-roulette.app

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