Tellspin – Round robin rotation for at-mentions in Slack
Set up an internal support shift schedule directly in Slack. Take the guesswork out of who should pay attention to which messages. Easily share team responsibilities such as on-call shifts, peer reviews, IT requests, meeting hosts, or scrum masters. See your schedule, add reminders, and set override
Tellspin – Round robin rotation for at-mentions in Slack launched on March 16, 2021 with 10 votes, #1,547 of 3,696 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.
In plain words
Tellspin is a Slack app that automates round robin rotation for at-mentions. It cycles through team members in a specified order when someone tags a group, ensuring workload distribution. The tool is designed for teams using Slack who want to fairly distribute notifications and tasks without manually tracking whose turn it is. It works by managing rotation sequences automatically within Slack's messaging interface.
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Set up an internal support shift schedule directly in Slack. Take the guesswork out of who should pay attention to which messages. Easily share team responsibilities such as on-call shifts, peer reviews, IT requests, meeting hosts, or scrum masters. See your schedule, add reminders, and set overrides. No code required!
Organize people with shift schedules. Setup a Slack rota to see upcoming shifts, create overrides, and set reminders It's super handy to automate rotating shifts/responsibilities inside Slack. It's easier than @channel because the groups have the most knowledgeable people assigned to them at all times Give stakeholders a consistent way to reach out, but only trigger notifications for the team member responsible for responding. Our customer support folks can easily @mention an on call alias if something breaks- so they never have to know who exactly is on call. For our team it's great! Avoid the hassle of spreadsheets and external apps. Select your team members and rotation frequency. That's…from tellspin.app
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