[davis_m]

This looks like a great idea. There were a few times I got in trouble at work in high school because I didn't see updates my boss had made after I checked the schedule. This would avoid any of the he said/she said BS.

Can this be used for covering shifts. When I worked in a job like this, we were allowed to get shifts covered, as long as we found someone to cover it. It would be neat if this service could be used to text everyone that is eligible to cover a shift for the opportunity for extra time.

"Your coworker is looking for someone to cover their front desk shift, Fri 12/9 from 3:00 PM to 11:00 PM. Would you like to cover it?"

[philip1209]

Thanks! When we built our V1, we started to investigate building in shift swaps. However, when we started doing the user studies, we had an "oh crap" moment when we realized that so few of our users had smart phones or even email addresses. P2P swaps wouldn't work with such low engagement.

We realized that we had to fix a communication problem before we could build swaps. So, we went back to the drawing board and released V2!

You're spot on with your message - now that we have higher engagement with the workforce, we hope to build in that feature :-)

[radicalbyte]

This sounds close to something I was working on two years ago. Dynamic slot filling to optimize resource utilization. It's a pure social/communication problem; it needs to be reliable, fast, easy and works everywhere before you get the network effect that makes it actually work.