ThinkingTime for Slack

Leave more time to think

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Leave more time to think

7 followers

ThinkingTime is a Slack App that gives your team time to think. You use the App to post a question to your channel and then collect all responses to be released at the same time. Encourage better conversation and contribution… and thinking.

Launch tags:Productivity•Messaging

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This could be particularly useful for distributed teams working across timezones. @joshelman @cyrusradfar, what use cases are you imagining?

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5yr ago

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Maker

@rrhoover --- Here are a few use cases we've already heard for when this can be useful: * Initial design feedback to a new mockup, proposal, logo, or really any creative (we've all been there when the first response is "hate it" and you go on immediate defense) * Gathering questions ahead of a meeting or an all-hands * Starting a weekly retrospective over Slack and getting people to give meaningful input * Discussing a candidate after a full day of interviewing where you don't want to bias each other's feedback * Initiating a brainstorm around a tricky problem * Requesting input or suggestions for a team bonding event … and so many more! Look back in your recent slacks and email threads and see how many times conversations got derailed by the first responder!

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5yr ago

ThinkingTime for Slack

Maker

@joshelman @rrhoover Yes! I felt this a lot with my last team. We 'solved' some of the problem by requiring overlap and waiting on many conversations. I think there are a few obvious use cases listed on the site and, as we built it, we realized that this would be a good replacement for the "anyone have any thoughts on X" question often posted in larger meetings. Kill that awkward pause where folks need to "think quick". If you use the 5 minute setting, you can use it in-meetings, in retrospectives, at the start of recurring meetings to allow for a review and feedback of some content, etc.

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5yr ago

@rrhoover @joshelman This a great model and app for all teams as it gives the opportunity for everyone to really think through the question or issue. Great app. Just upvoted.

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5yr ago

@joshelman @cyrusradfar @rrhoover private chat please

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5yr ago

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Maker

👋 The best conversations are ones where everyone contributes their ideas and people discuss things on equal footing. Everyone is heard. One of the biggest problems in a lot of conversation is people sometimes compete to respond first instead of most thoughtfully. The first comment or commentor might then set the tone and dominate the follow on conversations. These are the bad "first responders". This is most notorious on Slack where everyone is always on and talking in channels. So we built a way to do this for Slack. You put forth a request or question and gather all of the responses before they are released. It gives everyone some time to think and not worry about being late to the conversation. @cyrusradfar and I have always been jamming on random things. I wrote a blog post a few weeks ago with some ideas about tools that can help us live from home better. One of these I initially called "ReplyTime" which would help give people time to think before replying, or giving everyone time to think. We got more excited as we started brainstorming it and Cyrus decided he wanted to sign up and build it. We had a lot of fun making this. We hope it provokes new thinking and how to take a little more time before everyone types. Enjoy it! Let us know if you have any questions or feedback. We'll respond here on ProductHunt as much as we can today :)

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5yr ago

@joshelman Great idea. Any plans for a version for MS Teams?

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5yr ago

ThinkingTime for Slack

Maker

@joshelman @chris_thorne1 thanks for the interest, Chris. I reviewed some of their APIs but we want to focus the learning/iteration on Slack until we really solve the problem well. I'd love to be on MS Teams and in GMail, as well!

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5yr ago

@joshelman @chris_thorne1 @cyrusradfar A Gmail integration would be great (perhaps it's a matter of using AMP in the content of an email for a simple interaction right in the email) although I can understand starting in Slack. I'd also consider a Trello plugin (PowerUP) or Jira integration, where engineering teams sometimes organize retrospectives

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5yr ago

ThinkingTime for Slack

Maker

@joshelman @chris_thorne1 @jglassenberg good ideas, Jeremy. I appreciate the insights.

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5yr ago

Pardon me while I get lost in that manifesto for a bit (you know I am a sucker for a good manifesto @cyrusradfar and @joshelman ). Really digging the concept and motivations so far. I'll have obvious questions around security and privacy, but I will at least try to look for answers before waving my arms around over my head. This also triggers some of my fascinations with Amazon's 6-page memos and starting meetings by reading in silence.

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5yr ago

ThinkingTime for Slack

Maker

@joshelman @thomasknoll I can speak to security and say pretty confidently, this is a privacy-first design. We don't store any messages or even the poster's information. We leverage Slack's scheduling API to queue up messages and release them on time and pass through the information back to Slack. We only store the information required to authenticate with Slack so we can post as a Bot to the workspace which is an oauth authentication token along with the id of a team. The token we request effectively allows us to see some basic information about the channel, whether it's public or private. We can't see or be used within DM or private threads and we do not ever read/store messages posted.

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5yr ago

Love it, super useful for large organizations when they are working remotely. Zoom is an excellent tool for communicating, but most thoughtful conversations could happen over a text. Glad to see this launched!

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5yr ago