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Suhas Ghante

Icebreakers 2.0 - Build stronger team relationships with fun Q&A on Slack

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*** Currently featured on the Slack App Directory! 🙌 ***
Get to know the people that you work with in a fun and low-stress way, in Slack.
✅ Answer fun & informative questions
✅ Share answers in a public channel
✅ Use our battle-tested questions or customize

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Ellen Choi
Maker
Hi everyone 👋, Ellen here (CEO/Co-founder of CareerLark). I'm really excited to share with you our Slack app Icebreakers! As a remote/distributed team in US, Europe, and Asia, we made Icebreakers because we saw that while we worked closely together professionally, it was tough to build more of that personal connection given the time zone differences and digital nature of our interactions. Icebreakers solves for this by randomly picking people from your selected channel, pinging them with fun and informative questions, then posting their answers. True story between Mady and me, our intern: 👩 Ellen: What will you do at the end of summer before school starts again? 👩‍💼 Mady: I actually don't have that much time because I have crew, I'm the coxswain. 👩 Ellen: How did this not come up all summer? That's so cool! Everyone is interesting in their own way and our hope is that Icebreakers can spur more of these types of conversations. We would love to hear your thoughts and feedback! As a thank you to the ProductHunt community we are offering 30% discount off our paid plan (we have a freemium model with automatic 30-days free trial of the paid plan, no credit card required), just use the Slack install link from this page. Finally, a question for you: what are your hacks for fostering personal connections between distributed team members?
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Ellen Choi
Maker
@kanad_bahalkar NICE, hopefully this has more staying power! Do let us know how it turns out. And thank you for the design feedback, love your use of bubbles! this is a really cool tool, I will def add it to my arsenal of tools.
Artur Buyukyan
That's now probably the best way to find out your team members better
Ellen Choi
Maker
@artur_buyukyan Thanks Artur, we think so too! Our algorithm generates a balance of fun questions (i.e. what's your favorite cuisine?) and informative questions (How would you like to get feedback?) to ensure that teammates are getting to know each other in a multi-faceted way.
David Eng
This Icebreaker app seems pretty icy cool! ❄️ I’m going to use it on my oh so serious team to get everyone talking about fun topics while they work. Will let you all know whether I can break the ice.
Ellen Choi
Maker
Thanks David, "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" right? We hope that you can use Icebreakers to have some fun with your team! Let us know how that goes.
Chris Han
This is really cool! Much more useful and fun than posting stuff to #Random, and hoping that we get to know each other better.
Ellen Choi
Maker
@chris_han Thanks Chris, we've heard from our users that Icebreakers has really helped teammates to come out of their shells and get to know each other better. Hopefully your team enjoys it too!
heleenarits
Nothing more important than a good team spirit (especially now that some interns joined over the last two weeks)! Seems like the ideal situation to try it out, I'll ask the group for a next team building asap ;) Thanks!
Evheniy Bershadskiy
Maker
@heleen Thank you! Hope your team will love this app too. Let us know how it was)
Suhas Ghante
Hunter
One of the challenges for me in working in a remote team is building that personal and authentic connection that enables us to work in a high-functioning way. Icebreakers has been awesome in helping my team build that human connection. Check it out!
Ellen Choi
Maker
@suhas_ghante1 Thanks so much Suhas for your hunt. Glad that Icebreakers has been great for your team!
SShafiq Ahmed
Thanks
Helen Redzel
The app is definitely something great that will bring the team's communication to the next level!
Evheniy Bershadskiy
Maker
@helen_redzel We are glad to hear that! Good luck with communication improvement in your team
Daniel Gaiduk
I'm exited how this app helps people to know each other. I remember this time, when I joined 150+ people company and only in one year I was able to tell some facts about some of team members. This app do it a few times faster. Really enjoy using Icebreakers!
Evheniy Bershadskiy
Maker
@daniel_gaiduk Yeah, you've really caught the idea of this app! Thank you for that. Just write us back if you find some good friends among the collegues. We will be glad to hear about that
Olha Vysochynska
I tried it with my team. Let me say it is the funniest thing I've ever tried. Will continue to use it
Evheniy Bershadskiy
Maker
@olha_vysochynska Thank you so much! Go ahead and have more fun :)
surgieboi
I love that this is now a product! It's a practice that we've used at Elliot because we are completely remote, but now we're going to jump on with Icebreakers. Another great product coming out of the Acceleprise family!
Ellen Choi
Maker
@sergio_villasenor Awesome, glad to hear that this can be useful for you! Do let us know how your team likes it - generally teams ❤️Icebreakers and hopefully yours does too.
Liam McClintock
Great idea and a well-built product!
Ellen Choi
Maker
@liammccl Thanks Liam, hopefully this is useful for your team!
Abhinav Agrawal
Seems very cool - look forward to trying it out in our company! Love the concept of taking incebreakers digital
Ellen Choi
Maker
@agrawal667 Awesome, great to hear that you'll be trying it out! Hopefully your team ❤️s Icebreakers as our other users. Let us know if you have any feedback or thoughts.
Steve Chew
My team uses Slack religiously, so integrating these types of icebreakers especially for newer employees will be really helpful!
Kate Rooney
This is so awesome! Our team is 30% remote and we do a fun meetup on Fridays, but are always looking for icebreaker questions. Love that we can do it straight from Slack. Thanks!
Mhansi Pandhi
Great way to involve the whole team!
Elena Nazarenko
Icebreakers makes your team more open with each other and it's a definitely great tool for freshman adaption. Saying it as a freshman :) The best part for me is that this app is a perfect mix of serious & fun. And if "serious" stuff you can always get about people during the working process, insights about their character, favoring and habits not as easy to know. I'm feeling kinda guilty by reviewing my colleagues' social network profiles while we do not even have a talk yet. It feels like spying for me, 'cause I respect privacy even in today's "you-could-find-anything-about-anyone-online" world. Icebreakers helps to remove these borders and make communication the way much easier
Irina Tofan
looks nice!
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