Macarons is an app designed for Slack that facilitates random pairing of team members for virtual coffee breaks and informal chats. The tool addresses the challenge of fostering team spirit and personal connections among remote or distributed teams who lack opportunities for spontaneous interactions, such as hallway or coffee machine encounters.
Once added to a Slack channel, Macarons automatically organizes chat lotteries, pairing or grouping random members for conversations. Administrators can control the frequency and timing of these lotteries for each channel, as well as specify how many people should be matched together in each round. The app also supports the use of icebreakers to help initiate conversations, offering both predefined prompts and the option to set custom topics for each session.
Participation in Macarons is flexible, allowing individual users to pause their involvement or choose to participate only on alternate occasions, regardless of the channel’s overall meeting schedule. This makes it possible for users to manage their engagement according to their preferences.
Macarons is positioned as a virtual water cooler for organizations, aiming to connect colleagues across different departments and build personal relationships even when there is no direct work relationship. It is delivered as an integration within Slack and is intended for teams seeking to enhance their internal communication and camaraderie in a remote work environment.
In the Team chat & messaging space, Macarons takes a focused approach. It focuses on facilitating spontaneous social interactions and team bonding for remote or distributed teams who lack in-person hallway encounters. It is built as a B2B product for remote teams using Slack. There is a free tier. The product ships for the web.
Macarons first shipped in 2022. Key capabilities include random pairing, slack integration, and custom icebreakers.
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