For those who don't want to use Slack but want some sort of family automation, Huginn[1] may be useful.<p>[1] - <a href="https://github.com/cantino/huginn/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cantino/huginn/</a>
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.<p>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.<p>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.
Nice use of slack.<p>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...
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.<p>I'm missing the magic.
What is this curl script that calls out to Find My iPhone...<p>I'm surprised that the web api is trivial enough to script but would love to use it.
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.<p>I've tried Google and Trello ... wondering if there's something better.
I built a Slack bot to digitize movies, so everyone in the house knows when to swap discs, figure out tracks and post to the TV hub.<p><a href="https://github.com/jeremywohl/moviebot" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jeremywohl/moviebot</a>
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.
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...
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.<p>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.
Someone at work was recently giving me the slack pitch, and mentioned the cool bot that be configured to announce people, answer questions etc...<p>It made me very nostalgic for my old IRC friends, both people and eggdrop bots alike.
For those using Slack, I recommend you to check out this to-do app <a href="http://www.zlapps.com/todo" rel="nofollow">http://www.zlapps.com/todo</a><p>Disclaimer: I built it :)
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).
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. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/where-slack-moms-slackformoms-kavalpreet-ganti" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/where-slack-moms-slackformoms...</a><p>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.
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.
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.