I’m working on a platform that can help issue “awards” for achievements and track them. I won’t share the landing page here as I don’t want to self-promote. I’m looking for feedback on tools that HN’ers already use.
* How do you feel? (1-5)
* What are you struggling with?
etc. One of the (required) inputs is a space where you enter a colleague's name to publicly praise them.
As praising somebody is mandatory it feels a bit meaningless, but still "Thanks to @BobSmith for being great to work with" probably makes Bob feel a bit happier for a while when this gets highlighted to them.
Other people might disagree.
I like to praise people directly, when they've done something clever, good, or difficult. I'm happy to say to higher-ups "[My colleage] David did an awesome job on this recent project". But writing that for the whole company to see just seems .. weird.
It's not as nice as a physical card, but it's still kind of fun in its own way.