😻 Range is FREE till the end of the year for the first 100 teams who sign up with the referral code: “PRODUCTHUNT”. Enjoy! ——— Hello! I’m a co-founder and head of product here at Range. The team has been working incredibly hard to launch this new Range app for Slack. If you’re already using Range and Slack, this will be a huge upgrade to your workflow. If you’re new to Range, it’s the best way to keep your team connected while everyone’s working remote. Range lets you run daily Check-ins with your team, it connects up to all your tools to make writing a Check-in super easy, and it has team questions that make Check-ins actually fun! I know there’s a lot of makers in this community, so here’s a detailed rundown of all the Slack features that I’m particularly excited about today: 👍 Easy setup — You can now Sign in to Range with your Slack account, invite your team, and be ready to go in minutes. We’ll guide you through every step. ✅ Check-ins from Slack — We creatively used the Slack modal API to build an excellent Check-in experience right from Slack. You can even search for activity from connected integrations like GitHub, Jira, etc. 💬 Comments — This might be my favorite. You can now easily reply to Range comments in Slack. You can even see the whole thread for context. 🤓 Slash commands — We added a bunch of Slash commands. “/checkin” lets you check in to Range from anywhere. There’s also some fun commands like “/range timezones”. Type “/range help” to see them all. 🧵 Notification threading — Some teams really want to keep their team channel tidy, so you can choose to have one Check-in thread per day. 🔖 Remember tasks — When someone asks you to do something in Slack, you can now click the [...] button on the message and choose “Add to my plan” in Range. 🏠 Slack App Home — Click on “Range” in your Slack sidebar, and you’ll be able to see up-to-date lists of who’s checked-in on your teams. 🚩 Bonus notifications — We also send messages to the team Slack channel for relevant info like Meeting notes, Objective updates, and Flags. Phew, that’s a lot! I hope you and your team check out Range and our new Slack app. We’re always working to make Range better, but the only way we can do that is through feedback from customers. So please do let us know what you think! Cheers!

I'm really proud of the team's work on this launch. There are a lot of visible changes, but even more under the hood. Range's first integration with Slack was built 3 years ago and used the RTC event stream and course permissions. Since then Slack have made considerable improvements to the API, introducing granular permissions and encouraging the use of the REST API and various webhooks for events and interactions. Making these kinds of changes are like changing the wheels on a moving train, and require considerable choreography. We hope you enjoy the improvements and if you're working with the Slack API our team would be happy to chat about our experiences.

I love the spinner tool for making sure the person with the strongest wifi doesn't get the loudest voice

I love the mood check features!

love love the mood icons, and the deep Slack integration makes it all so much more convenient

Transforms the ways that our team works together.

I think being able to monitor performance and task distributions across the team is going to be more important than ever as it looks like remote work is here to stay. Love the mood feature to get a quick glance of everyone’s status. What motivated you guys to build this?

I love the team building question and emoji portion Braden!! This is such a great way to get people excited and motivated to work!

A good way to know what your teammates are up to!

I'm a huge fan of Range. I use it daily with my product and engineering teams. The Slack update is pretty great - I love being able to see at a glance how people are doing (and if they've slipped on updating lately).

Huge fan of Range's team and product!

Crucial for keeping our team connected as we work remotely

Every day at Range we get to learn from the thoughtful and hardworking teams that use Range. And what we’ve heard over and over again is that they spend a lot of time in Slack. We knew that taking our Slack app to the next level was an important step for our product, and I’m really excited to share it with our teams today. And we can’t wait to keep learning—please share what you like, dislike, or wish our app did. We’ll be here taking notes and continuing to improve. 😸

Yay, go team Range! Our team started using the daily check-ins as a way to remotely conduct our "stand-ups," and that feature plus the mood check-ins have helped us passively share our priorities and well beings. We've become a more connected team while being physically apart.

I love the feature for the Remember Tasks! Can't wait to try it.

For all the designers out there, I just tweeted some tips for designing Slack apps that I learned while working on this project: https://twitter.com/kowitz/statu... The overarching lesson for me was that the Slack interface is *very* constrained, and it takes a good amount of experimenting with designs, and iterating with developers, to deliver a good user experience. So much of what I thought would work, didn't feel right when we tried it, or couldn't be implemented with the API (even though we thought at first it would work).

Loving the new app experience in Slack. It really helps our team stay in lock step! I highly recommend if you use Slack!

Seems super cool!!

This sounds really great! I will definitely be implementing this into my team work environments.

Good job!