Do you miss your office coffee breaks? Sharing food? Canteen gossips?
2020 pandemic has made all of us vulnerable to loneliness, where it is clear that how co-dependent we are towards each other without knowing it. People who are not your family become a major part of your life and hold important moments for you. In this career is driven ambitious generation, working in an office has evolved. It is not about you sitting in a corner and doing your work. Now it is about team efforts, brainstorming ideas, sharing office events, aligning your organizational objectives to your personal growth. We have seen that, though it was a relief for most people at the beginning of their “not going to office phase”. But as months continued people couldn’t adjust to the black and white lifestyle, they needed a grey lifestyle.
The work was seen to be doubled and their personal life was decreasing with every day of lockdown. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that it was exploiting their private time while making them work like donkeys. Though the workloads cannot be taken care of, technology has done its part of acting as a boon to them. People are connected digitally via video chat roulette for distributed teams as a way to stay in touch with each other when working from home.
A snack is a perfect option for you since it connects you with your teammates to have unplanned 1:1 conversations. Just like you would have serendipitous conversations with your teammates when taking a lunch break in the office
Gajus Kuizinas The founder of Snack Bot came along with the great idea which has changed the overall experience to that to of an office with a virtual environment to hand yours with your friends. He has built it using Node.js and integrated it with Slack and Zoom APIs. What makes snacking differently from all its competitors like Donut is the lottery mechanics with variable reward and icebreakers that mimic quirky real-world conversations. Just like snacking Donut pairs people to have planned conversations. Donut does not facilitate the call as snacking does, it simply matches two people and introduces them with a Slack message.
Snacking provides you a more user-friendly interaction. It not only connects you but also provides with the icebreakers which can include-
- Who is your craziest/most interesting relative?
- What advice from a close family member has stuck with you the most?
- If you were to teach a class, workshop, or training on any topic, what topic would you choose?
The aim of this app is for people to enjoy their hearts out and feel where their happiness truly belongs.
The lottery mechanism adds an exciting element to the conversations because you never know who you will be talking to until after you see each other in the video room — just like how you would never know who you’ll bump into at the water cooler!
The plan of snaking is way ahead what we can imagine, where Gajus Kuizinas envisions to Grow it into a protocol for starting 1:1 conversations. It is equivalent to you walking to a stranger’s table.
