Solving our own problem

So our main company Cloud Horizon was having a hard time keeping track of who was off when, and how many days they had left each year. We tried some solutions but we were not happy with them. And then we decided to build it ourselves and into our existing workflow in Slack. So that people can make and approve requests directly in the chat.

We built a barebones version of the Slackbot and a small web dashboard and launched the product. Since then, we've been building new features based on the feedback we've been getting from the teams using Vacation Tracker.