As someone who used to like team happy hours / events when we had offices - team "events" via zoom are weird and awkward. I spend so much of my time at home working, that the last thing I want to do in my free time is pretend to want to talk to my co-workers.
Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?
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#222The Houseparty app has a decent variety of games that you could play together as a team. Our team had a lot of fun playing pictionary on it!
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
Work "fun" events that happen outside of work hours are totally bogus.
If they're organized by the company, I totally agree. We have (had) a group who voluntarily organized and went out to a local bar after work on Fridays. Everyone was welcome, and no one felt pressured to go or not go.
Nothing beats ranting about the company or your boss with a few coworkers on a Friday evening.
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#224A few of the things we've done: - virtual murder mystery (two people on the team wrote it all up, it was intense, but I think you could buy a good package) - drawing apps online we use https://skribbl.io but the ads are tedious - we did a scavenger hunt for household items on different themes (we did a thanksgiving one) - this is easy to adapt to a lot and a lot of fun to see what folks have around their house - fill…
> Really looking forward to other folks' ideas. No, I want to work for you! (I’m kidding, I can’t leave the company I founded) PS: Is there something to do with a Lego set? Being able to keep it at the end would be nice to remember the company’s present.
It’s definitely a gift. A year ago I also got my team raspberry pis and tried to get them more into tinkering with Linux without being afraid of taking down our infra :)
You can definitely leave the company you founded, the last two companies I worked for had the founder move on after a while, it’s often a natural evolution, but maybe I’ll come work for you one day instead.
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#225A few of the things we've done: - virtual murder mystery (two people on the team wrote it all up, it was intense, but I think you could buy a good package) - drawing apps online we use https://skribbl.io but the ads are tedious - we did a scavenger hunt for household items on different themes (we did a thanksgiving one) - this is easy to adapt to a lot and a lot of fun to see what folks have around their house - fill…
Do you have recommendations for icebreaker books?
Hah nope, I ended up just googling a bunch of list spam and it had a similar effect, I just assume a book might be better curated :)
Re: Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?
#226A few of the things we've done: - virtual murder mystery (two people on the team wrote it all up, it was intense, but I think you could buy a good package) - drawing apps online we use https://skribbl.io but the ads are tedious - we did a scavenger hunt for household items on different themes (we did a thanksgiving one) - this is easy to adapt to a lot and a lot of fun to see what folks have around their house - fill…
Some other things: bought the team Minecraft and hosted a server for happy hours. It was fun but fizzled out. I think that’s ok and folks should get used to rotating ideas.
We did a happy hour using Drizzly - if your team drinks it’s a nice service and you’re basically ordering from convenience stores so other drinks and snacks are available.
Play some kind of challenge game and keep a leader board. Puzzles or trivia, or some game the whole team likes and can speed run or some other high score task.
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#227I think it's hard to have meaningful interactions over video chat among groups with more than, say, four people. Inevitably one or two parties do all the talking at a given moment, and everyone else just listens Something we've started doing at my company is monday-morning "random coffee". Everyone gets paired off to video chat with a random person for 20 minutes at the start of the day. It's been a great way to have…
lol nope. not even once.
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#228Wanted to come here to plug this: https://teams.startplaying.games/. Participated in a hosted game with them a week ago and really really enjoyed it. Think that D&D and other role-playing options like it are a great way for teams to stay connected during the pandemic in a lower stakes type environment where everyone can express themselves in a cooperative/constructive way!
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#229We're building a company around this called Marco - we'd love for you to check us out! We think we're the best way to bring your people together and have options ranging from Kombucha Making to Private Comedy Shows [0]
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#230My friends launched Marco[0] last year for teams do fun stuff virtually. Was at first skeptical of doing something like a gin tasting on Zoom, but all of the events I've done are really fun. They vet the events, manage delivering food and booze for you, etc. [0]: https://www.marcoexperiences.com
Yeah! Suman from Marco here - check us out!