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Kent Wills edited this page Feb 20, 2017 · 3 revisions

beans

What is Beans?

Beans is a tool to help employees connect with each other at work. Every week it helps match and schedule a short 30-minute 1:1 meeting for two employees at your company.

Check out this blog post!

Why Beans?

  1. Hands-off, simple, expandable meeting scheduling system.
  • Scheduling is a hard problem, by providing a time that people can opt-in, you are simplifying the matching problem by not taking into consideration each person's schedule. Instead you just have to match people based on their preferences for the week.
  • You can have multiple subscriptions at a time and you can whitelist who can see the subscriptions through setting up specific rules for each subscription.
  1. Low/ No cost
  • Beans is a Google App Engine low bandwidth/low memory application, this means that costs are either minimal or nothing. Currently this is $0 recurring for Yelp.

Features

  1. Ensures the maximal match and no re-matching based on a specific time frame. Maximal, meaning no more people could have been matched.