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title: "Vosmeer: drawing names for the December gift swap, without a hat · Hypamoon"
description: "An example team tool: a name draw for Sinterklaas or Secret Santa with exclusions, a budget, a private link per person, wish lists only the drawer can read, and anonymous questions."
url: https://hypamoon.com/examples/secret-santa
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1.  [Examples](https://hypamoon.com/examples)
2.  Vosmeer gift draw

# Everyone draws a name. Nobody sees the list.

A name draw for the December gift swap, with exclusions, a budget and a private link per person. Built in an afternoon from a chat, for a fictional installer called Vosmeer.

[Open the app](https://lootjes.hypamoon.app)How it was built

[![The draw for Sinterklaas at Vosmeer: twelve colleagues with their wish list status on the left, the Draw names button and five exclusions on the right.](https://hypamoon.com/img/voorbeelden/secret-santa-desktop.webp)](https://lootjes.hypamoon.app) [![A drawn name on a phone: a ticket opened to show the colleague you buy for, with their wish list below.](https://hypamoon.com/img/voorbeelden/secret-santa-mobiel.webp)](https://lootjes.hypamoon.app)

The app with example data, in Dutch. Emails land in its Mail tab, and what you change resets after a week.[Open the app](https://lootjes.hypamoon.app)

## Every December someone drew their own name. Or their partner.

Names in a hat only work when everyone is in the room. Half the team is out at customers, so the office manager drew for them, and then she knew who had whom.

Then the questions started. What does Jasper want? Is a candle fine? Nobody could ask without giving it away.

## Built from their chat.

A small app with its own database, built from the office manager's chat in an afternoon.

-   **People and exclusions** Add colleagues or share one sign-up link. Partners and last year's pairs never draw each other.

-   **One button to draw** Nobody draws themselves or an excluded name. The organizer sees that it worked, not who has whom.

-   **A private link per person** Each email opens one name and that person's wish list. Nobody else can read it.

-   **Anonymous questions** Ask the person you drew about a size or a taste. They answer without knowing who asked.

## How the team uses it now.

1.  **The draw is one click.** Everyone gets an email with their own link. Someone joins late? Draw again.

2.  **Wish lists stay private.** Only the person who drew you reads yours.

3.  **The organizer plays along.** She runs the draw and still does not know who has her.

## The build, in short.

1.  ****deploy\_app**** The draw, the personal links and the wish lists, with its own database.

2.  ****apply\_app\_migration**** Tables for people, exclusions, the draw and the questions.

3.  ****Signed links**** Each personal link is signed by Hypamoon, so nobody can guess or change it.

[Open the app](https://lootjes.hypamoon.app)

## The gap between the AI and the floor.

The model is not the hard part. The hard part is getting it into the way a team already works: their mail, their systems, their approvals. That is the work of a [forward deployed engineer](https://hypamoon.com/for/engineers), and Hypamoon is where the tool runs the same morning.

[For forward deployed engineers](https://hypamoon.com/for/engineers)

## More tools a team runs on.

-   [**Ardlow Freight** A phone agent for drivers, and answers in the planners' own chat.](https://hypamoon.com/examples/carrier)
-   [**Northdock** One live map of the hub, for the office and the floor.](https://hypamoon.com/examples/northdock)
-   [**Supplier inbox** Supplier email, read and ready to approve.](https://hypamoon.com/examples/supplier-inbox)
-   [**Halden Road job board** A job board the team uses from their own chat.](https://hypamoon.com/examples/team-board)
-   [**CRM adapter** The chat works with the CRM, without ever holding the key.](https://hypamoon.com/examples/crm-adapter)
-   [**Corveld visitor book** Visitors sign in at a tablet. Nobody reads the names of the others.](https://hypamoon.com/examples/visitor-book)
-   [**Corveld who's in** Everyone sets their week in a tap. Desks and parking add up.](https://hypamoon.com/examples/whos-in)
-   [**Corveld bookings** The pool car, the van and the meeting room, never booked twice.](https://hypamoon.com/examples/shared-bookings)
-   [**Vosmeer leave planner** Days off asked, approved in one tap, and nobody short-staffed.](https://hypamoon.com/examples/leave-planner)
-   [**Vosmeer lunch orders** Everyone picks their own lunch. Each supplier gets one order.](https://hypamoon.com/examples/lunch-orders)

## What would your team run on it?

Connect your chat and build the first tool. Or [talk to us](https://hypamoon.com/book?utm_source=examples&utm_campaign=secret-santa) about yours.

[Start free](https://app.hypamoon.com/?mode=signup&utm_source=examples&utm_campaign=secret-santa)

Works in Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot. [Add to Claude](https://hypamoon.com/connect?via=examples~secret-santa#claude) [Add to ChatGPT](https://hypamoon.com/connect?via=examples~secret-santa#chatgpt) [Add to Copilot](https://hypamoon.com/docs/microsoft-copilot)