# Paddlecards

> With 200+ people at my first company kick-off, it was hard to meet anyone outside my own department.

Status: archived
- post: /posts/2026-02-26-paddlecards/



I messaged our CEO with an idea for a game for the annual kick-off. A few days later there was a taskforce, and a 3D printer was running batches of NFC badges overnight.

Paddlecards is a web app where people collect customers as cards by finding and meeting colleagues from other teams. I wrote the full story on the [Paddle Engineering blog](https://paddle.engineering/blog/paddlecards-customer-centric-icebreaker).

![NFC badges fresh off the 3D printer](3d-print.webp "39 NFC badges, printed overnight.")

![Screens from the game](app.webp)