Flamingo vs Patook

Flamingo is a leave management app for Slack teams, making the leave request and approval process as simple as can be.

Flamingo makes it easy to request and manage your team's time off, allowing you to get to work on tasks that actually move the needle. With Flamingo, your team members can request leave directly in Slack, and managers can do the same when reviewing leave requests. You're guaranteed to save at least 90% of the time you spend managing your team's leave calendar, compared to inefficient methods like spreadsheets and email threads.

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Beacon-based Friend Making and Community App

Patook is about meeting the people who are near you and who share similar interests, as well as connecting local communities together.

It is based around the concept of beacons. Users create beacons and everyone within those beacons can interact with everyone else. Beacons can be as wide as cities (e.g. the Seattle beacon) or as narrow as a small library. Discussions posted on beacons can be upvoted and the most popular discussions are shown higher.

Patook is foremost a friendship making service and nearly all interactions within the site are tailored towards making users get to know the people around them better while remaining safe. This includes a powerful point system which allows users to assign points to other user traits (for example, if they play the piano or like to ski).