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Our extended family decided to use this exact model this year, and managing the email lists was indeed a major pain in the neck.",{"id":53,"by":54,"text":55},"8637502","mankyd","Very cool idea! Maybe make it so that teams of people get assigned to giftees, but maybe not _everyone_? So that, if I want to play with 12 friends, there aren't 12 separate…",{"value":57,"source":58,"evidence":59},"Teams and groups doing Secret Santa gift exchanges","inferred",[60],{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},"8637003","We open sourced the little app (Bottle.py and React.js) that powers this tool: https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fzapier\u002Fconspiracysanta.com We also wrote an accompanying blog post about it:…",{"value":64,"source":65,"evidence":66},"Built for Zapier's own team Secret Santa, which worked well the previous year","maker",[67],{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},[69,73],{"value":70,"source":65,"evidence":71},"Bottle.py",[72],{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},{"value":74,"source":65,"evidence":75},"React.js",[76],{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},"open_source","launched","company",{"praise":81,"objections":98,"requests":117,"questions":133,"alternatives":138},[82,94],{"value":83,"source":46,"evidence":84},"Good idea and name",[85,89,93],{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"8637092","rl3","The name is great. Conspiracy makes it sound a lot less innocent than secret.",{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"8637163","bengali3","Great idea for friends! For my co-workers on the other hand... i'd hesitate to offer an O(n²) solution. I do believe the Feels per Participant™ ratio would be optimal for the…",{"id":53,"by":54,"text":55},{"value":95,"source":46,"evidence":96},"Useful for managing email lists",[97],{"id":49,"by":50,"text":51},[99,106,111],{"value":100,"source":46,"evidence":101},"Without automatic buyer assignment, the gift purchase could be missed",[102],{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"8637656","Robadob","Without the system automatically assigning buyers, I'd expect it's very possible oversight would allow for the final gift to not have anyone in on the conspiracy having already…",{"value":107,"source":65,"evidence":108},"Email-based approach may not scale to large groups",[109,110],{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},{"id":53,"by":54,"text":55},{"value":112,"source":46,"evidence":113},"Unclear whether each thread assigns a host to buy the gift",[114],{"id":115,"by":104,"text":116},"8637379","Without signing up for it to test, it's unclear whether each email thread is assigned a different 'host' so that in the end every person handles the actual purchase\u002Fordering of 1…",[118,122,126],{"value":119,"source":46,"evidence":120},"Assign each person a set number of giftees instead of all members",[121],{"id":53,"by":54,"text":55},{"value":123,"source":46,"evidence":124},"Optional automatic buyer assignment",[125],{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},{"value":127,"source":46,"evidence":128},"Resize the Santa image to reduce page weight",[129],{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"8637714","dugmartin","You might want to resize the original Santa image on your server - 586K for a small image in the corner is a little large. http:\u002F\u002Fconspiracysanta.com\u002Fimg\u002Fsanta.png",[134],{"value":135,"source":46,"evidence":136},"Whether each email thread assigns a different buyer",[137],{"id":115,"by":104,"text":116},[139,146],{"value":140,"source":46,"evidence":141},"Slack private rooms per employee",[142],{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"8637545","seeingfurther","Wouldn't it be easier to setup individual rooms for each employee within Slack and then just lock that employee out of the room deciding his gift?",{"value":147,"source":46,"evidence":148},"White elephant \u002F Yankee swap gift exchange",[149,153,157],{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"8637216","ChuckMcM","Nice. It is definitely a good variation. One that I don't like is the everyone randomly picks a gift from a table of 'equivalent' gifts, and has the option of either opening it…",{"id":154,"by":155,"text":156},"8637521","dminor","That sounds more like a white elephant gift exchange than secret santa.",{"id":158,"by":159,"text":160},"8637907","jameshart","I was introduced to that format once I moved to Massachusetts as the 'Yankee Swap'. It's fun so long as nobody takes it remotely seriously. I think it appeals to the New…",{"comments":162,"answered":30,"key":163},4,[164,165,168],{"id":61,"text":62},{"id":166,"text":167},"8637951","Cool idea! 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