DinkyDash for Offices and Shared Spaces
DinkyDash was built for families. It works in an office kitchen, a classroom or a co-working lobby too — but it helps to know what you're actually getting, because it's a family product wearing a different hat.
What's on the screen
Today's shared calendar in time order, whose turn it is for the rotating jobs, countdowns to the dates that matter, and a headline written fresh each day by Claude.
That's the lot.
What it's actually good at
Static office screens get ignored. Someone puts up a shared calendar and a motivational quote, and by week two nobody's looking. The headline changes every day, which is enough to make people glance — and while they're glancing they see the rota and the calendar.
The rota is the part that earns its place. Who's buying the coffee, who's cleaning the fridge, who's running stand-up: it moves to the next person when the date changes, with nothing to tick and nobody to chase. That's the failure mode it fixes. A shared spreadsheet needs somebody to maintain it, and that person gives up in about three weeks.
Mapping it onto a team
The settings are built around a household, so you translate:
| The setting | What it becomes |
|---|---|
| People | Team members, students, members |
| Chores | Rotating jobs — facilitator, kitchen, stand-up |
| Special dates | Deadlines, launches, term dates |
| Calendars | Your team's shared calendar, via its iCal link |
The honest limits
- The headline is written for a household. Claude is told the dashboard's name, the people on it and where they are, and writes as if they're a family. There's no tone, audience or custom-prompt setting. Self-host and you can edit the prompt in the source, but that's a code change, not configuration.
- Everyone sees the same screen. There's no per-person view and no sign-in on the display.
If you can live with those, it's a good shared-space screen. If you need per-team content or a tone dial, it isn't the tool and we'd rather say so.
Getting started
Hosted — paste your team's calendar link and open the dashboard on whatever screen is nearest. Free for 14 days, and we don't ask for a card. Start a trial.
Self-hosted — MIT-licensed and free for ever. It runs on anything that can serve a web page: an old laptop, a spare PC, a Raspberry Pi. The setup guide has the commands, and you'll want your own Anthropic key, which costs well under a dollar a month.
Last updated 2026-10-06.