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Justin Alva
Icebreaker Zoom Backgrounds for standups — Lols, hmms and a whole lot of banter with this 30-pack
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Monotony of daily meetings getting to you? Add some fun to your standups :).
30 different icebreaker backgrounds, one for each day of the month. The scrum master puts up a new one every day and everyone answers the question on it for some good old banter.
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Sanket Nadhani
Maker
Hey folks, Sanket here, founder of Bored (https://www.bored.social). A lot of people are working remotely for the first time and it can lead to a feeling of isolation and having no social bond with the team. While we are solving for the larger problem by building games teams can play together within Slack with our product called Bored, this is our attempt to bring some fun and banter to everyday standups on Zoom. There are 30 different icebreaker backgrounds, one for each day of the month. The scrum master puts up a new one everyday and everyone answers the question on it for some good old banter. Tag us in your funniest replies on Twitter (https://twitter.com/boredonslack) and let us in on the fun! Cheers, Sanket
Corey Hobbs
Top Product
Great product! @sanketnadhani We should chat! I'm on the Zoom Apps Team.
Sanket Nadhani
Maker
@chobberoni Thanks. I have sent you a DM on Twitter.
Nikhil Jois
This is very cool! Can’t wait to give it a shot.
Sanket Nadhani
Maker
@nikhiljoisr Thanks Nikhil. Try it out and let us know how it went.
Suhas Motwani
Nice idea :P
Eugene Hauptmann
Ah, going to use this today! @kosmischemusik
Justin Alva
Maker
@eugenehp Good to hear! Let us know how it goes, tweet to us: https://twitter.com/boredonslack
Ivanna Wendel
Looks like a lot of fun! Great job!
Harsh Gelda
This is Good Stuff!! Looking forward to more of these for the upcoming months :P
Vivek
hahah this is fun. Very nice product
Sage Will
Our team loved it at first try...keep making it better and better guys
Sanket Nadhani
Maker
@trappisone Awesome. Yes we do have a bunch of more fun ideas for Zoom bgs - if people enjoy this one, we might give that a shot :)
SuDa2103
Looks like fun! I'll see if I can use this in my next meeting
Daniel Racz
Thanks for a fun idea :)
Sanket Nadhani
Maker
@dr_dani Thanks Daniel :) Let us know how it went on Twitter.
Brian Prokopowich
Love it!
Mayank Gupta
Amazing creation man. I used this in my meeting, and everyone was blown away. Asking me where I got this from. Love your work. Add more of them and upload man!
Sanket Nadhani
Maker
@mayank_gupta11 Super excited to hear that Mayank. Would love to know how it goes as you use more of it. Do share the funniest replies with us on Twitter :)
Ibrahim
Hi, I endorse this message. Make more backgrounds please
Scott N Decker
Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica. Great job guys; good luck with the launch!
Kumar Shubham
Great Job. Looks like a lot of fun
Kirill Gorokhov
Imo this is too distracting for daily standups but will work great for other casual zoom meetings with colleagues/friends!
Justin Alva
Maker
Hey @kirillgorokhov, it really depends on how the team wants to run the daily standups. For some it might be a distraction, and for others it helps lighten the mood. To each their own :). We hope teams can find many different use cases. Like you mentioned, this would be super fun with colleagues and friends. Family too!
Sanket Nadhani
Maker
@kirillgorokhov Yeah for sure. We like to chitchat a bit before we do our daily standups, so these icebreakers have been great to provide conversation starters or dig into things which we otherwise wouldn't think of. But I might be biased :)
Ken Moo
The brand name is so point. Meetings today are so BORING. Thanks for making this.
Sanket Nadhani
Maker
@kenmoo Thanks Ken. We love our name too :)