DIBS ON STUFF
Take turns with stuff
in Slack and Discord
Dibs On Stuff was used
over 240,000 times in 2024
Dibs helps your team
take turns with anything
- Claim a staging server to demo code changes
- Deal out sales leads or support tickets evenly
- Share the load with office chores
- Call dibs on the office car parks
- Bring your dogs to work (1 or 2 at a time? 🐕🐕🐕)
Just enter this into Slack or Discord
/dibs on THING
If no one is using the THING, it's yours.
Dibs will keep a queue of all the people in line for the THING.
Looks like Sarah wants the staging server next...
When Alex is done, he enters
/dibs off THING
Dibs will take care of the rest.
Free, Extra or Pro
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Whether you're managing three servers or three hundred, Dibs won't restrict the number of queues you have running.
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Unlimited queues | |||
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Let your whole organization use Dibs without worrying about surprise billing.
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Unlimited team members | |||
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No per-usage fees or restrictions on using Dibs in automation.
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Unlimited |
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Ten queues in one Slack channel, or a hundred queues in a hundred channels, it's all good.
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Unlimited channel usage | |||
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For those times when someone has gone on holiday or is unavailable, bump someone from the queue and let the next person have their go.
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Bump the THING to the next person in line | |||
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If you know you'll only need to hold onto something for a set amount of time, Dibs automatic timers allows you to specify the amount of time
that you're claiming the thing for, eg:
/dibs on server1 for 45 min
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Automatic /dibs off after a specified duration |
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No more spelling errors, eg: this will work:
/dibs on staging but this won't work: /dibs on stageing
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Allow only approved queue names | |||
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Help other team members understand more, by stating a short description.
Useful also for attaching bug/issue numbers to things. |
Add extra info for calling dibs on things | |||
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If typing out commands into Slack is getting a bit boring, this enhancement adds in-app Slack buttons with a dropdown menu to allow you to quickly
use Dibs.
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Slack buttons for less typing | |||
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This makes certain queues have a bit more noise, so that as new members are added to a queue, notifications are sent to the queue leader.
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Queue nudging for conch-hogs | |||
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Better than drawing names from a hat, use a random queue to decide who's next. Useful for sharing the load with office chores.
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Random queues for delightful surprises | |||
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Originally written to allow semi-anonymous queues, this feature allows you to keep the guest list a secret.
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Secret queues with people's names hidden | |||
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Run commands faster by avoiding typing out the whole queue name, eg:
/dibs on sta (if the conch/queue name was "staging") |
Queue name abbreviation | |||
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Use Dibs directly in your automation and CI/CD pipelines by setting up per-queue API authentication tokens.
This lets you manipulate conches/queues directly via API calls. |
API access | |||
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Keep separate collections of queues in separate Slack channels.
Eg: one channel for deploys, one channel for testing/QA, and one channel for taking turns bringing your dog to work. |
Restrict queues to particular Slack channels | |||
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Great for roster duty or taking turns with after hours support or any other turn taking event that repeats day after day.
People will get automatically placed onto the end of the queue over and over. |
Automatic re-queuing for job roster queues | |||
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Make it mandatory to use timers on particular queues.
This prevents people forgetting to release the queue and forces people to consider how long they'll want to claim the thing. |
Enforce timers on queues | |||
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Jump to the head of the queue. It's here if you need it, just in case.
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Queue jumping (just in case) | |||
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Rename a queue without losing all the queue members that are waiting their turn.
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Queue renaming | |||
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For silencing the queue messages that Dibs sends to the Slack or Discord channel.
Can be applied to individual queues or all queues. |
Quiet queues |
Privacy Policy
The information that is put into this service is used only to run this service. No spam. No data collection. Here are the long versions Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
And the plain fact from the Slack app store about what data Dibs is able to collect, compared to another similar app:
And the plain fact from the Slack app store about what data Dibs is able to collect, compared to another similar app:
What is this conch you speak of?
In the 1954 William Golding novel Lord of the Flies the kids
would take turns speaking - only one could speak at a time, provided they held
the conch (a seashell) they could cooperate by passing it around between them.
Can I try out the extra features?
Every account may try out the Pro features by entering
/dibs extras into Slack or Discord.
This will enable the Pro features for free for a month - no credit card required.
Contact
Any questions or support queries:
support@dibsonstuff.com
Alex Lance
support@dibsonstuff.com
Alex Lance
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tfstate.com take immediate action on Terraform configuration drift
Conchable.com a general API for queuing systems - the engine underneath Dibs On Stuff
Autoexpire.com transfer sensitive information to your clients (for sharing passwords or other credentials, and customizing the security controls)
Streetmates.net join up the people in your street in a non-intrusive fashion (give each street on the planet a mailing list)