Teams & work

Share team updates without accounts, emails or a paper trail

Group chats accumulate. Email threads sprawl. Sometimes a team just needs one place to post updates today - and needs that place to be gone by tomorrow. A temporary room does exactly that: everyone joins by QR or link, posts under a name, and the room erases itself after 6 quiet hours.

A worked example: a law firm on a hearing day

A solicitor is coordinating a busy court day: one colleague is at the hearing, one is back at the office, a trainee is running documents between the two. Instead of a WhatsApp group that lives forever on everyone’s personal phones, the solicitor creates a room in the morning and shares the link.

Through the day the room fills up: “Judge pushed us to 2pm” - Farah · “Bundle copies ready at reception” - T · “Client arrived, meeting room 2” - Owner. Every update is signed with a name in its own color, so a fast-moving day stays readable. And when the solicitor wants to know where each thread stands, one tap on 🗂️ Sort regroups the feed into a window per person - Farah’s court updates in one box, the trainee’s logistics in another. By the evening, the room has deleted itself - no group to mute, no thread to tidy, nothing lingering on anyone’s device.

Catch up fast: sort updates by person

A single live feed is perfect while updates trickle in, but catching up on a busy room means scanning for names. The 🗂️ Sort button flips the room into one window per person: each teammate’s messages sit together in their own color-coded box with a count of their updates, newest at the bottom, and the rest of the page tucks away so up to ten boxes fit on one screen.

Sort view only changes your screen - everyone else keeps the live feed, and new messages still land in the right box as they arrive. Tap 🗂️ again to go back and reply. It’s the quickest way for whoever is running the day to ask “where is everyone?” and read the answer at a glance.

Set it up (about 30 seconds)

1. Create a room. You’re in immediately as the owner - no name needed, your posts are signed “Owner”.
2. Optionally tap the shield to set a password, and tell your team the word in person or on a call.
3. Share the QR code at the morning briefing, or paste the link into your existing channel once.
4. Each person picks a display name - initials, a first name, anything - and gets their own color.
5. Post updates as the day unfolds. Everything syncs instantly to everyone in the room.
6. Walk away. The room erases itself after 6 hours of quiet (24 hours maximum, no matter what).

What a disposable room is good for

• On-the-day logistics - hearings, closings, site visits, filming days, event setup.
• Shift handovers - the outgoing shift posts what the incoming one needs to know.
• Stand-ups without another app - everyone posts one line; copy the thread into your notes and let the room vanish.
• Working with outsiders - contractors, counsel, vendors: no “can you make an account” friction.

Know its limits

Be deliberate about what you post. Rooms are unlisted and can be password-locked, but they are not end-to-end encrypted and anyone who has the link (and password) can read them. Use a room for logistics and coordination - not for privileged, confidential or client-identifying material. Treat it like a hallway conversation: convenient, informal, and never the system of record.

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