How does your team handle recurring rotations in Slack (support duty, standup facilitator, on-call)?
I'm researching how teams actually solve the "whose turn is it?" problem in Slack and I'd love real-world answers before I build anything.
What I keep seeing at companies I've worked with:
- A pinned spreadsheet that's outdated within three weeks
- A /remind that happily pings people who are on vacation
- Workflow Builder attempts that die because it has no "next person in the list" step and no memory of who was last
- One person (usually the same one) manually tagging whoever is next
If your team runs any recurring duty through Slack — support triage, code review assignment, meeting facilitation, on-call handoff:
What do you use today (app, spreadsheet, homegrown bot, nothing)?
What breaks most often — vacations, fairness, timezones, people forgetting?
Did you try one of the existing rotation apps and drop it? Why?
Not selling anything in this post — genuinely trying to understand if this is a real pain or just my bubble. I'll share a summary of the answers in the comments if there's interest.