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Envoy: Elegantly greet visitors to your office

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"Your lobby is the first thing visitors see when arriving at your office. It's a reflection of your brand and culture. Make sure they don't deal with a human being"

It's so exciting that going to a meeting will soon be like going to my doctors office, filling out tons of forms and I can spend more time poking at a little screen.

Technology can be super useful (obviously), but this is just total overkill.

I for one am looking forward to a day where strangers don't have to see my awful handwriting. Although the thought of touching a tablet that all of the infected patients before me have touched might keep me to the pen and paper.

I'm not a fan of this idea, that said I've seen it done right and done poorly.

Done poorly - Google - Typing on a screen to get your badge is always a slow, painful process. Trying to have an event with several people who all have to sign in demonstrates how much of a painful bottleneck this can be.

Done well - Hacker Dojo - Multiple kiosks with real keyboards. You can sign in and (at some events) get a badge super quickly.

The code for the hacker dojo kiosks is open source and available here (https://github.com/hackerdojo) along with a bunch of other useful tools.

What is going on? This is the third Envoy post to hit the front page immediately after posting and then go nowhere in the past couple of hours.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325634

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325701

Weird. The URL on the second link is identical to the one I submitted. Wonder why the HN link de-duper didn't catch it.

Not quite identical. Trailing slash.

We're working on a new de-duping system. The current dupe detector is deliberately left porous so that reposts of good stories that didn't get attention won't be killed as dupes.

They both look like they have a trailing slash to me.

Huh. At our end, 8325701 has a trailing slash and this one does not.

I am seeing the opposite--701 has no trailing slash, 34 does have a trailing slash.

Why not just connect to their Google calender and pull it ahead of time

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