Today
Mike Thompson mentioned you
@Rob Hough - Would love your thoughts on the color palette changes we discussed
Daily Standup - March 15
Wrapped up the authentication refactor, moving on to API optimization today
User feedback session
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Cushion: The team decided to focus on the top 3 feedback insights on the onboarding flow. The overall sentiment was positive and the updates will be done next week.
October social media content planning
Sarah: It'd be great if we could re-use the content from the blog posts for the social media content.
Alice requested your feedback
Feedback Needed
Hey guys! I'm looking for feedback on the new component library. I've made a few updates to the dark mode variants and also the DropdownMenu component. Take a look!
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What email provider should we go with?
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Alice Smith
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30 Apr 2026, 19:18
Hey team! I've been researching email providers and have some recommendations. Here are the key features and pros/cons for each:
Gmail
- Free tier available
- Excellent integration with Google Workspace
- Strong spam filtering
- Real-time data visualization
- Custom report builder
- Export functionality
- Team performance metrics
Outlook
- Excellent integration with Microsoft 365
- Strong spam filtering
- Real-time data visualization
- Custom report builder
- Export functionality
- Team performance metrics
ProtonMail
- End-to-end encryption
- Privacy-focused
- Excellent security features
- Strong spam filtering
Try posts instead of instant messages
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David Hawkins
1h ago
Janet Walker
2h ago
Carol Williams
3h ago
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Alex 2h ago
Hey! How's the new feature coming along?
You 2h ago
Pretty good! Just finished the API integration. Still need to work on the UI components though
Alex 2h ago
Nice! How's the performance looking?
You 1h ago
So far so good. The caching is working well. Should be ready for testing by tomorrow
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Here's what happened on Cushion yesterday:
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