by _b8r0 on 2/1/16, 5:09 PM
by balls187 on 2/1/16, 5:25 PM
My wife and I use slack. In the past ~6 months we: got engage, planned a wedding, a wedding reception (2 different dates), honeymoon to Australia, a baby, a new house, and renting out our townhome.
While slack is really a gussied up messaging platform, the extra polish they have on things like search, pins, and documents, made planning and executing on 3 of lifes major milestones significantly easier to manage.
So far we use only a couple of integrations: google calendar, and a custom build slash-command that pushes events to IFTTT's Google calendar event reciepe.
by ritonlajoie on 2/1/16, 4:56 PM
Nice use of slack.
Side question : anybody here using some sort of hosted family social network ? I'm thinking about doing that. We have a huge family (around 200 alive members who are connected in real life) and thought about installing something, with a facebook/g+ login with oauth. I thought about maybe a wordpress + budypress thing but.. maybe I'm missing something better ?
The first requirement is that anybody must select his parents, so that an ancestry tree can be created, etc...
by chermanowicz on 2/1/16, 8:52 PM
"It turns out our school is living in the future, providing a RSS-feed per child."
That's crazy (awesome).
by veritas20 on 2/1/16, 5:24 PM
Seems like a great use of Slack. Unfortunately, my first and only experience with Slack has not been a fantasy. I joined a public slack on startups and everytime I check, I'm 100+ messages behind. Seems like a giant chat room.
I'm missing the magic.
by kingnight on 2/1/16, 5:06 PM
What is this curl script that calls out to Find My iPhone...
I'm surprised that the web api is trivial enough to script but would love to use it.
by spinningarrow on 2/1/16, 4:39 PM
> Our school is living in the future, providing a RSS-feed per child.
That is actually really cool. Are there any privacy concerns though?
by filipm on 2/1/16, 4:30 PM
I think the MatHem hack is pretty neat, why would anyone be offended by it?
by callmeed on 2/1/16, 7:39 PM
Does anyone have a favorite "Shared Family Calendar"? We need something to keep track of everyone's school schedule, reports/projects due, sports games/practices, etc. etc.
I've tried Google and Trello ... wondering if there's something better.
by jeremyw on 2/1/16, 5:45 PM
by simonswords82 on 2/1/16, 5:16 PM
As a B2B SaaS app founder I dream of the day when our app generates this type of positive, organic coverage so effortlessly. It's no wonder Slack are growing at such a rate, they've built something that provides a serious amount of value to people.
by jalada on 2/1/16, 6:23 PM
We plan our vacations in Trello! Personally I think that's less hardcore than using Slack for family group chat.
by realusername on 2/1/16, 4:38 PM
I also wanted to setup something like this but I did not see an option to switch languages in Slack and since no-one speaks any English, it's not going to work well...
by luckydata on 2/1/16, 8:36 PM
I use Hangouts for that sort of things and this dude pretty much gave Google and Facebook their roadmap for the next couple years.
by oldgun on 2/1/16, 9:54 PM
See, people. This is how Slack should be used. For family daily use, not as the only communication tool for opensource projects.
by jedberg on 2/1/16, 5:16 PM
Right now my wife and I just use Google calendar and iMessage, but I can see a time soon when my child can speak, read and type where it might be handy to have a group chat.
Although reading this now I wonder if it would be handy to have this for my in-laws who all live in the area, since right now we all have to coordinate via email.
by davidbrent on 2/1/16, 8:15 PM
Someone at work was recently giving me the slack pitch, and mentioned the cool bot that be configured to announce people, answer questions etc...
It made me very nostalgic for my old IRC friends, both people and eggdrop bots alike.
by guillegette on 2/2/16, 2:10 AM
by rcarmo on 2/2/16, 12:08 AM
Smiled as I read this, seeing as I'm on Slack largely due to my "extended family" from my previous job (everyone else left but we stayed in touch over Slack).
by stephenitis on 2/1/16, 4:54 PM
Are there any downsides to using slack for family uses?
I can only of think of my personal need to separate work/personal chat apps
by birbal on 2/1/16, 10:06 PM
this is so awesome. My wife and I have been thinking and working on how can family productivity be improved. It's not an easy task as we are figuring out. There was a recent blog post that became reasonably popular.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/where-slack-moms-slackformoms...The challenge I feel is to determine if one should take a broad-based approach to family productivity that addresses all aspects or should one take a narrow high-value problem and solve for improving the productivity of that task. We have approached it from the point of view of making kids' activity planning as a task easier. We are going into beta in a week or so. We'll know if this works.
by charlieegan3 on 2/1/16, 4:34 PM
We also use slack in our family - haven't customised anything other than adding an emoji for the dog. I've found slack channels to work well with different sections of the extended family.
by jhgg on 2/2/16, 1:12 AM
I just moved into a house w/ a few room-mates, and we were looking to make a discord channel for the house and write some bots around home automation.
by cryptos on 2/2/16, 11:41 AM
It is cool to have all these conversation been backed up by the NSA ;-)
by nextos on 2/1/16, 5:58 PM
Would this be doable with IRC?
by perseusprime11 on 2/2/16, 1:02 AM
Did you look into Trello?
by runn1ng on 2/2/16, 12:25 AM
They should have used IRC.