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Based on my personal experience (SlashMap - fairly successful Slack plugin), I’d recommend trying to verify an idea before giving up your full-time job. For instance, you can start with a landing page to do so. I must confess that combining full-time work with a side project was challenging for me and affected work-life balance heavily in my case, but it may be the best choice if you’re not ready to quit your current job. Working on a side project only in your free time will probably significantly slow down the progress, but you can think of finding a partner to help you with it (if the project succeeds you’ll probably need a partner anyways). Opinion and complementary skills of another person may be keys to success as well. I’d say that if you really believe in your idea, it’s very likely you’ll find a way to verify it before quitting your current job. Good luck!

Thanks for the feedback! The app already supports multiple floors and multiple buildings. Regarding the streamlining of the process, I was thinking of something like adding an option to automatically send out invitations to everybody in the company to add their own location. What do you have in mind?

Thanks to the lockdown, I've finally wrapped up the long work on a Slack plugin that helps you find the location of coworkers and meeting rooms: https://www.slashmap.com/.

I used Go on the backend (rewritten from Node) and Vue on the frontend.

How it works: first, you upload a picture of your office layout using the web UI and mark everyone's locations. Then if you send "/map @JohnDoe", the plugin will return a map with the location marked on it. It works for meeting rooms and other locations as well.

Now the plugin has dozens of users and were featured in the Slack's app directory as "New and noteworthy".

If you have any questions, feel free to ping me at contact@slashmap.com :)