Kudos Wall
Shout-outs for your team, on one wall.
Free to use · No sign-up needed
Your share link and your manage link appear here once the wall is made.
Everyone says thank you at once, on the same page
Praise in a group chat gets three emoji and then scrolls away. Praise in a meeting goes to whoever is confident enough to speak first, and the person who actually unblocked everything last Tuesday hears nothing. A kudos wall fixes the shape rather than the sentiment: one page, one link, and everybody writes at the same time instead of waiting for a turn.
So this one asks for a title and nothing else — and even that is optional. No account, no email address, no workspace to be invited to. Press Create kudos wall and you get a short link to send round and a second link that is yours alone. Everyone else opens the first one, writes a line, signs it, and watches the wall fill up around what they wrote.
How to run one
- Give it a title people can answer. “Shout-outs for the launch team” gets shout-outs; “feedback” gets an awkward silence.
- Press Create kudos wall. Two links come back.
- Share the first — six characters, so it can be read aloud or written on a whiteboard.
- Keep the second. It is the manage link, and it is how you close the wall afterwards.
- Write the first one yourself. An empty wall is the hardest one to be first on, and one example sets the length everybody else copies.
- Let it run for a day or two, then read the wall out. Newest sits at the top, so the last thing written is the first thing anybody sees.
Three things worth knowing before you start
Every kudos is signed, and nothing is merged. A name goes up beside each one, remembered in that person’s browser so they only ever type it once. Two people thanking the same person for the same thing stay two thank-yous, because the second one is not a duplicate of the first — it is somebody else saying it.
The wall expires ninety days after the last kudos. Every kudos pushes that date out, so a wall people are still writing on does not go anywhere. When ninety quiet days pass the page stops working and everything on it is deleted within a day. There are no accounts, so there is no way to bring it back.
Anyone with the link can write anything. There is a word filter over both the message and the name, and it is a first line rather than a wall. Every shared page carries a Report link, one click takes the whole wall off the air, and your manage link is what puts it back. Send this to a room you would hand a marker pen to.
Good uses
- A leaving present: one wall, a week to fill it, a screenshot on the last day.
- The end of a project, where the people who carried it are not the people who presented it.
- A team meeting warm-up — five minutes of thank-yous beats twenty minutes of status.
- A classroom, where thirty kind things arrive at once instead of four hands going up.
When to use something else
A wall collects; it does not rank, and nobody votes on anything. To choose between options somebody has already written down, that is Live Poll. For one-word answers you want to see the shape of, that is Idea Cloud. And if what you want is a card one person receives rather than a page a team reads, that is Group Card — the difference is who it is for.
Questions people ask
- Does anyone need an account?
- No. You make the wall, you send the link, and people write on it. Nobody has to sign up, nobody has to give an email address, and nobody installs anything. The organiser can sign in if they want to keep it past ninety days and find it again without the link — that is the only thing an account does here, it is optional, and it changes nothing for anybody else. The link works in whatever browser is already open, on a phone at the back of the room as well as on a laptop.
- How does signing work, and is my name saved anywhere?
- You type a name once and this browser remembers it, so the next Gleekit tool that asks who you are already knows. It is kept in your own browser, not in an account, and there is nothing to sign in to. Change it on the form and it changes for next time as well. The name goes up beside your kudos, which is the whole point — an unsigned wall is a suggestion box.
- How many kudos can one person write?
- As many as they have people to thank. There is no per-person limit, which matters: a wall where everyone gets one turn makes people ration their thank-yous. The only ceiling is the site's rate limit, sixty entries an hour from one connection, which is there to stop a script and not a person.
- Can I delete one kudos?
- Not individually, and that is worth knowing before you open a wall to a room. You can close the wall so nothing more goes up, and you can delete the whole thing. Anyone with the link can also report a wall, and a report takes down the entire wall rather than the one kudos that prompted it — immediately, before anybody here has looked at it. Your manage link is what puts it back.
- What happens to the wall afterwards?
- It stays readable until ninety days after the last kudos, then it is deleted along with everything on it. There is no archive and no way to get it back, so screenshot or copy anything you want to keep — and if the wall is a leaving present, take that screenshot on the day rather than in three months.